Scope:
SAS for zOS software will be upgrade from version 9.1 to version 9.3 on HP mainframe systems supported by the National MVS Software Support Team. It builds on the direction of SAS 9.2 with improved capabilities to manage and process "Big Data," to derive deep insight even faster with SAS Analytics, and to help IT deliver to the business more effectively with better deployment, configuration and Administration of the SAS environment.
Effective Date:
For each complex, a change record will be created in Service Center to support the change and to indicate the proposed implementation date for SAS version 9.3. The RFC will be scheduled for the MVS Maintenance Window IPLs
Group Name:
National MVS Software Support Team
Affected Locations:
CHIPC1D CSAAMVP GB1 PLIPCMZ PLIPCM1 PLIPCM2 PLIPC3H
SAIPC1A
Summary:
SAS for zOS software will be upgraded from version 9.1 to version 9.3 on HP mainframe systems supported by the National MVS Software Support Team.
Justification:
The upgrade maintains a current level of software supported by the vendor.
Benefits to Users:
Maintain software currency.
Details:
SAS software will be upgraded from version 9.1 to version 9.3 on
HP mainframe systems supported by the National MVS Software Support Team.
The following new datasets will be created:
SYS2.SAS.CONFIG
SYS2.SAS.DBRM.V8
SYS2.SAS.DBRM.V9V10
SYS2.SAS.LIBE
SYS2.SAS.MAPSGFK
SYS2.SAS.SASRXCFG
Impact to the Users:
1. To view all the enhancements and changes see the What's New document at
http://support.sas.com/documentation/whatsnew/index.html
2. There is a new PDSE load library called SYS2.SAS.LIBE that contains modules that are
required to be in a PDSE.
This dataset must be concatenated to the SYS2.SAS.LIBRARY dataset in all places
where SYS2.SAS.LIBRARY is used. The default PROC and REXX have the correct
concatenation but users will need to update any of their own procs, jobs, clists, or
rexx for the new SYS2.SAS.LIBE PDSE concatenation.
3. Options are now in SYS2.SAS.CONFIG. Previously they were in SYS2.SAS.CNTL. The
default PROC and REXX have the correct Config dataset but users will need to update
any of their own procs, jobs, clists, or rexx’s to reference SYS2.SAS.CONFIG instead
of SYS2.SAS.CNTL.
The options are now broken out into multiple members with a default concatenation of
BATCH/TSO, COMMON, ENW0, and SITE.
Configuration members are :
BATCH Batch only parms
TSO TSO only parms
COMMON Common parms
ENW0 Encoding parms
SITE Site specific parms
NOTE : The SAS Proc has been changed. If SAS Proc is invoked by any other product, give a look the JCL and change it accordingly.
4. SASHELP and MAPS datasets are now dynamically allocated based on options. Jobs
that have DD statements for these datasets can now remove them but it will not
cause an issue if they remain.
5. There is a new REXX for invoking SAS. The old CLIST will be phased out with SAS
9.4. It is strongly suggested that the REXX be used. Users that have a
customized SAS clist should convert to using a REXX version.
6. In all operating environments except Windows 32-bit environments, the SAS Remote
Browser replaces the SAS Help Browser. You now view ODS HTML, PDF, and RTF utput,
SAS documentation, and other Web pages that are specified by the WBROWSE command by
using the Web browser on your computer.
7. In the FREQ procedure, frequency plots and cumulative frequency plots are no longer
produced by default when ODS Graphics is enabled. You can request these plots with
the PLOTS=FREQPLOT and PLOTS=CUMFREQPLOT options in the TABLES statement.
8. Defaults for output in the SAS windowing environment for Microsoft Windows and
UNIX have changed.
9. HTML is the default ODS destination.
10. ODS template changed slightly, so if you were using ODS to create report output, you
may find that it looks a little different.
11. VARLENCHK is a new parm that controls the Variable Length Ck error msg. It can be
set to NOWARN in order to mimic how 9.1.3 functions. See
http://support.sas.com/kb/31/850.html for more information.
12. In 9.1.3, the fonts were in traditional data sets, in 9.3, they are in a Unix file
system reflected in the FONTSLOC value.
13. The SAS/C Transient library has been discontinued by the vendor. The production
dataset SYS2.SAS.SASC.TRANSLIB is being dropped. Users need to check and updates
their jobs or clists to remove the SYS2.SAS.SASC.TRANSLIB library. The CTRANSLOC
option has been dropped from the options files. Any jobs or clists that use it in
their local options needs to remove it.
14. In SAS 9.3, each user needs an OMVS segment, either specifically defined or as a
default for all user IDs, so that the user can be 'dubbed' in UNIX terms. End users
do not require their own UNIX file system directory.
15. The following datasets are no longer in use and will be deleted once the upgrade is complete. Any references to any of these datasets should be deleted.
SYS2.SAS.SASC.TRANSLIB
SYS2.SAS.USAGE.NOTES
SYS2.SAS.USAGE.PGMS
SYS2.SAS.USAGE.ZAPS
SYS2.SAS.DBRM
SYS2.SAS.SRVCFG
SYS2.SAS.SRVCLIST
SYS2.SAS.SRVCNTL
SYS2.SAS.SRVENV
SYS2.SAS.SRVPARM
SYS2.SAS.SRVPROC
SYS2.SAS.FSONG.GFONT
SYS2.SAS.HEI.GFONT
SYS2.SAS.KAI.GFONT
SYS2.SAS.LI.GFONT
SYS2.SAS.MING.GFONT
SYS2.SAS.SHING.GFONT
SYS2.SAS.YUAN.GFONT
Primary Contact: Antonio Pinotti at antonio.pinotti@hp.com and / or
Jorge Mabuti at jorge.mabuti@hp.com
Secondary Contact: Dallas Eppley at dallas.eppley@hp.com
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