INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS FOR HOT FIX 81BA04 ON OPENVMS ALPHA BEFORE DOWNLOADING: The hot fix 81BA04 addresses the REMOTE ENGINE issues in Release 8.1 (TS1M0) of Base SAS software on OpenVMS Alpha as documented in SAS Note(s): SN-003461 Possible data set corruption using Release 8.1 REMOTE engine with SAS/SHARE or SAS/CONNECT Remote Library Services (RLS) SN-003537 New observation in FSVIEW may be duplicated with SAS/SHARE and a WHERE clause You may review these SAS Notes at: http://www.sas.com/service/techsup/unotes/SN/003/003461.html http://www.sas.com/service/techsup/unotes/SN/003/003537.html The hot fix package downloaded is in zip format. The name of the zip file is 81ba04av.zip, and it contains the following files: * sasiormt.exe the replacement executable containing the hot fix * 81ba04av.aud a hot fix identifier file that will allow Technical Support to determine which fixes have been applied to a system * 81ba04av.txt a copy of these installation instructions; this file is installed in SAS$ROOT:[TOOLS.SUPPORT.HOTFIX] IMPORTANT NOTES: 1. You must have Release 8.1 (TS1M0) installed on your system before applying this hot fix. 2. Define Release 8.1 SAS System logicals to your process by executing the following command file: $ @disk:[SAS81.TOOLS]SAS81.COM where disk is the device where Release 8.1 (TS1M0) 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]. 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 replacing the sasiormt executable. 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, 81BA04AV.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]81BA04AV.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 -q -o "-X" "SAS$ROOT:[TOOLS.SUPPORT.HOTFIX]81BA04AV.ZIP" This command must be executed EXACTLY as documented above. The zip file name MUST be in uppercase. This completes the installation of hot fix 81BA04 on OpenVMS Alpha.