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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, 9.2 to 9.3).
 This checklist does not support conversion from a newer to an
 older release of SAS (for example, 9.3 to 9.2).
 
 
 CA MICS SAS Configuration Options Members
 ------------------------------------------
 
 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 9 for SAS version 9.
 
 SAS/TOOLKIT Software
 --------------------
 
 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 the new SAS version.  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
 -------------
 
 SAS has only one entry point named SAS.  The following
 members must be examined for possible SASNAME or 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
 -----------------------------
 
 One of the features of SAS is its 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.