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Story: SAS's Goodnight won't say goodbye yet

Posted by: Etienne Baert (Friday 16 June 2006, 10:02 AM)

I fully share your opinion Pascal, we are exactly facing similar problems.

We developed a Java Web Based application on top of SAS Entreprise BI Server and we used some SAS classes marked as stable in the documentation we get with the installation medias... if you now look at the same classes on the SAS web site, they are flagged "Subject to Change" ...

We are also busy with the Service Pack 4 installation for SAS 9.1.3 ... well, it looks we better have to speak about a migration to SP4. We are busy with this since several days ...we called SAS yesterday to get all the needed Medias regarding our installation, in addition to the SP4 download available on the SAS web site ... we received 9 CDs ... none of them contains the components we need most ... so we have to ask for additional medias ... We will have by the way more than 10 CDs to apply on an installation that initially requires about the same amount of medias. Do we better have to speak about a new release ???

Compared to the "effort" we have to put in the SP1 installation for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and its BI clients, it becomes really ridiculous. Including download time and installation procedures, it took us not more than 30 minutes to have it done ...