INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS FOR HOT FIX 82BB46 ON OPENVMS VAX BEFORE DOWNLOADING: The hot fix 82BB46 addresses the issue(s) in Release 8.2 (TS2M0) of Base SAS software on OpenVMS VAX as documented in SAS Note(s): SN-005210 LINE statement may display incorrect data with COMPUTE BEFORE and the FLOW option SN-005223 BREAK statement and GROUP under an ACROSS may cause an error SN-005211 GROUP values under ACROSS may be missing if BREAK/COMPUTE AFTER variable is requested SN-005767 Nested ACROSS variables may result in system specific errors SN-005770 Row variable values may be printed under wrong variable column SN-005766 Rows of data may be missing from output with multiple ACROSS variables in PROC REPORT SN-007784 PROC REPORT quantile values may be incorrect SN-007785 ACROSS values may be missing in the REPORT WINDOW of PROC REPORT SN-007786 BY statement in PROC REPORT may cause memory problems SN-007888 All but the first column under an ACROSS variable may contain missing values SN-005776 CALL DEFINE specified in COMPUTE block may produce an abend SN-009218 Data missing when ANALYSIS variable is requested over multiple ACROSS variables SN-009829 PROC REPORT _PAGE_ location LINE statements are missing when only summary rows are printed on a page SN-010063 PROC REPORT option NOCOMPLETECOLS may apply only to last variable listed under a nested ACROSS SN-010051 Label for OTHER format range may display in RBREAK summary line which may be reviewed at: http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/005/005210.html http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/005/005223.html http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/005/005211.html http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/005/005767.html http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/005/005770.html http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/005/005766.html http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/007/007784.html http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/007/007785.html http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/007/007786.html http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/007/007888.html http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/005/005776.html http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/009/009218.html http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/009/009829.html http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/010/010063.html http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/010/010051.html The hot fix package downloaded is in zip format. The name of the zip file is 82bb46vm.zip, and it contains the following files: * sasrepmn.exe the replacement executable containing the hot fix * sasrepwd.exe the replacement executable containing the hot fix * saszrepo.exe the replacement executable containing the hot fix * sastrepo.exe the replacement executable containing the hot fix * uwudefin.exe the replacement executable containing the hot fix * sasrep7.exe the replacement executable containing the hot fix * sasrepor.exe the replacement executable containing the hot fix * 82bb46vm.aud a hot fix identifier file that will allow Technical Support to determine which fixes have been applied to a system * 82bb46vm.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 UNZIPVM.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]UNZIPVM.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, 82BB46VM.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]82BB46VM.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]82BB46VM.ZIP" The "-X" parameter must be in uppercase for this command to work properly. This completes the installation of hot fix 82BB46 on OpenVMS VAX.