INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS FOR HOT FIX 82BC07 ON AIX BEFORE DOWNLOADING: The hot fix 82BC07 addresses the issue(s) in Release 8.2 (TS2M0) of Base SAS software on AIX 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 that is downloaded is in compressed tar format. The name of the tar file is 82bc07ar.tar.Z, and it contains the following files: * sasxdbi.82bc07 the replacement executable containing the hot fix * sasxdbi a link to sasxdbi.82bc07 * 82bc07ar.aud a hot fix identifier file that will allow Technical Support to determine which fixes have been applied to a system * 82bc07ar.txt a copy of these installation instructions; this file is installed in !SASROOT/hotfix/doc IMPORTANT NOTE(S): 1. You must have Release 8.2 (TS2M0) installed on your system before applying this hot fix. AFTER DOWNLOADING: The following instructions describe the steps for installing the files listed above. In this example, !SASROOT, the directory where Release 8.2 (TS2M0) is installed, is: /usr/lib/sas8 STEP 1: Assuming the tar file is downloaded to the user's HOME directory, follow these procedures to install the package. $> cd /usr/lib/sas8 $> uncompress -c $HOME/82bc07ar.tar | tar -xf - STEP 2: Once the tar command is complete, the following lines must be added as the first lines of the !SASROOT/dbcs/sasv8.cfg file: -path !SASROOT/hotfix/sasexe -path !SASROOT/../hotfix/sasexe Also, the following line must be added as the first line of the !SASROOT/sasv8.cfg: -path !SASROOT/hotfix/sasexe Do not modify any existing -PATH options in the !SASROOT/dbcs/sasv8.cfg or !SASROOT/sasv8.cfg files. STEP 3: Change the ownership (using the chown command) and permissions (using the chmod command) on the files in the !SASROOT/dbcs/hotfix/sasexe directory to match the ownership and permissions on the files in the !SASROOT/dbcs/sasexe directory. Also, change the ownership and permissions on the files in the !SASROOT/hotfix/sasexe directory to match the ownership and permissions on the files in the !SASROOT/sasexe directory. This completes the installation of hot fix 82BC07 on AIX.