INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS FOR HOT FIX 82BC07 ON OPENVMS ALPHA BEFORE DOWNLOADING: The hot fix 82BC07 addresses the issue(s) in Release 8.2 (TS2M0) of Base SAS software on OpenVMS Alpha as documented in SAS Note(s): SN-004969 Incorrect results returned when using the LIBNAME statement or ACCESS view to query a DBMS SN-006278 "ERROR: The maximum number of DBMS opens for this engine has been reached" SN-006761 The case of DBMS column and table names is not preserved when using the DBCS image SN-006874 The option DBGEN_NAME= renames variables incorrectly SN-005276 Error joining multiple ACCESS views or DBMS tables from different librefs with CONNECTION=GLOBALSHARED SN-009683 New DB2 LIBNAME option to reduce number of concurrent DB2 threads SN-012757 SAS/ACCESS query may return incorrect results when duplicate variable names exist which may be reviewed at: http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/004/004969.html http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/006/006278.html http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/006/006761.html http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/006/006874.html http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/005/005276.html http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/009/009683.html http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/012/012757.html The hot fix package downloaded is in zip format. The name of the zip file is 82bc07av.zip, and it contains the following files: * sasxdbi.exe the replacement executable containing the hot fix * 82bc07av.aud a hot fix identifier file that will allow Technical Support to determine which fixes have been applied to a system * 82bc07av.txt a copy of these installation instructions; this file is installed in SAS$ROOT:[TOOLS.SUPPORT.HOTFIX] IMPORTANT NOTE(S): 1. You must have Release 8.2 (TS2M0) installed on your system before applying this hot fix. 2. Define Release 8.2 SAS System logicals to your process by executing the following command file: $ @disk:[SAS82.TOOLS]SAS82.COM where disk is the device where Release 8.2 (TS2M0) of the SAS System is installed. 3. If you do not have the UNZIP utility installed on your system, please download this program from the "SAS System under OpenVMS" link on this page: http://www.sas.com/service/techsup/ftp/download.html The name of the utility is UNZIPAV.EXE. Copy this file to the directory SAS$ROOT:[TOOLS.SUPPORT]. Create this directory if it is not present. Once installed, create a symbol pointing to the UNZIP utility: $ UNZIP :== "$SAS$ROOT:[TOOLS.SUPPORT]UNZIPAV.EXE" AFTER DOWNLOADING: The following instructions describe the steps for installing the files listed above. STEP 1: Create a directory named HOTFIX under SAS$ROOT:[TOOLS.SUPPORT] $ CREATE/DIR SAS$ROOT:[TOOLS.SUPPORT.HOTFIX] STEP 2: Copy the file downloaded, 82BC07AV.ZIP, to the HOTFIX directory created in STEP 1. Assuming the file was downloaded to a user's directory called disk1:[dir], execute $ COPY disk1:[dir]82BC07AV.ZIP SAS$ROOT:[TOOLS.SUPPORT.HOTFIX] STEP 3: Change your default directory to the SAS$ROOT directory. $ SET DEFAULT SAS$ROOT:[000000] STEP 4: Extract the contents from the downloaded zip file. $ UNZIP -o "-X" "SAS$ROOT:[TOOLS.SUPPORT.HOTFIX]82BC07AV.ZIP" The "-X" parameter must be in uppercase for this command to work properly. This completes the installation of hot fix 82BC07 on OpenVMS Alpha.