The following topics highlight some of the important new features and enhancements in each SAS 9.2 release. Because these releases are cumulative, each SAS 9.2 release incorporates the functionality that was introduced in an earlier release. Each SAS release is identified by a Technical Support number. For more information, see Understanding Technical Support Numbers.
Details about the new features and enhancements are available in the product documentation. A good starting point is the “What's New” topic for the product.
The third maintenance release for SAS 9.2 (TS2M3) was released in May 2010. The third maintenance release includes all updates from the first and second maintenance releases for SAS 9.2.
migration across platforms within the same family of operating systems. For example, you can migrate content from one version of Windows to any other version of Windows.
the ability to change the host names (including the network domains) of server machines in your deployment. For more information, see “Using the SAS Deployment Manager to Update Host Name References” in the SAS Intelligence Platform: System Administration Guide.
use of the SAS Deployment Wizard to install a subset of the products that are licensed at your site. This functionality helps reduce the number of products that are installed on a given machine. This functionality is not available for planned deployments.
support for AIX 7 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6. For more information, see http://support.sas.com/resources/sysreq/hosts/.
additional support for third-party software, such as Firefox 3.6, the Platform Suite for SAS Version 5.1, and WebSphere 6.1 on z/OS. For more information, see http://support.sas.com/resources/thirdpartysupport/.
Also, you can now run Oracle WebLogic Administration Server and Oracle WebLogic Managed Server as Windows services. For more information, see “Running Servers as Windows Services” in the SAS Intelligence Platform: System Administration Guide.
performance improvements in SAS/ACCESS. Also, the new SAS/ACCESS Interface to Aster nCluster is available.
SAS/GRAPH ODS Graphics Designer is now production.
SAS Scoring Accelerator for Netezza is available.
a new release of SAS Scalable Performance Data Server, which includes a new graphical user interface.
in SAS OLAP Cube Studio, the ability to define security on SAS OLAP cubes through a batch interface.
New releases of SAS/ETS, SAS/OR, and SAS/STAT are shipping in conjunction with the third maintenance release for SAS 9.2. When you apply the third maintenance release for SAS 9.2, these products are updated to SAS/ETS 9.22, SAS/OR 9.22, and SAS/STAT 9.22. For more information about these products, see http://support.sas.com/rnd/app/AnalyticalProducts922.html.
The second maintenance release for SAS 9.2 (TS2M2) was released in September 2009. The second maintenance release includes all the updates from the first maintenance release.
updates for Base SAS, the SAS Intelligence Platform products, and the SAS Enterprise tools and clients.
enhanced security options within OLAP cubes.
expanded support in SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases to include SQL Pass-Through. Also, new SAS/ACCESS engines for Greenplum and Sybase IQ were added.
expanded in-database processes for Teradata.
enhanced support for redeploying Web applications and tools to identify deployed software.
additional support for operating systems, such as Windows Server 2008.
additional support for third-party software, such as Java 6, WebLogic 10.0, and WebLogic 10g Release 3.
The first maintenance release for SAS 9.2 was released in June 2009. This release includes localized Help (in several languages) for the SAS Intelligence Platform products and SAS Enterprise clients.
No hot fixes for SAS products were included in the first maintenance release.
The second release for SAS 9.2 was released in March 2009. It consisted of an update to the technologies in the SAS Enterprise Intelligence Platform.
The initial release of SAS 9.2 consisted of new Base SAS capabilities, updated statistical methods, analytical procedures and graphing capabilities, the introduction of SAS Stat Studio, and enhancements to the core visualization technologies.