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5.4.1 Considerations for Converting to a New SAS version

This section provides information about converting to the
latest version of SAS, as it applies to your CA MICS
environment.  Currently, CA MICS must be running a supported
release of SAS.  See the System Administrator Guide for
information about SAS releases supported by CA MICS.  The 
SAS web site contains SAS articles, presentations, and 
documentation regarding the latest SAS version.

The conversion checklist can only be used to convert from an
older to a newer version of SAS (for example, 8.2 to 9.2).
This checklist does not support conversion from a newer to an
older release of SAS (for example, 9.2 to 8.2).


CA MICS SAS Configuration Options Members
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During the SAS conversion, the following members in
sharedprefix.MICS.PARMS are replaced with version-
specific members and customization is lost:

MABATCH  MATSO  MQRBATCH  ICFBATCH  ICFDMS

To avoid losing local modifications made to these members,
the same customization must be made in these corresponding
SAS-version-specific members in sharedprefix.MICS.PARMS:

MABATCHx  MATSOx  MQRBTCHx  ICFBTCHx  ICFDMSx

where x is 7 for SAS version 8, or 9 for SAS version 9.

SAS/TOOLKIT Software
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SAS/TOOLKIT Software is a separate licensed product that
permits the writing of SAS procedures, informats, formats,
functions, CALL routines, and I/O engines.  If your site has
written modules using SAS/TOOLKIT, those modules must be
recompiled under SAS version 9.  While CA MICS uses
SAS/TOOLKIT Software to create a number of custom informats,
formats, and CALL routines, SAS/TOOLKIT Software is not
required to execute them.  For more information about
SAS/TOOLKIT Software, contact the SAS Institute.

SAS Execution
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Unlike previous releases of SAS, version 9 has only one entry
point named SAS.  The following members must be examined for
possible SASNAME SASCFG updates: sharedprefix.MICS.PARMS
(JCLDEF and JCLDEFC) and prefix.MICS.PARMS(JCLDEF). The MWF
SAS Execution Options must specify this entry point.

SAS National Language Support
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One of the significant features of SAS version 9 is its SAS
National Language Support (NLS).  NLS provides support for
language- specific messages, documentation, sorting, and
characters.  As a result, the default SAS configuration and
the autocall data set names have embedded the language and
encoding abbreviations.  The IBM EBCDIC encoding (W0) is
required for CA MICS.  CA MICS has been tested successfully
with the language code EN (English). Any other
encoding/language combination can cause unexpected results.