INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS FOR HOT FIX 82BC42 ON AIX BEFORE DOWNLOADING: The hot fix 82BC42 addresses the issue(s) in Release 8.2 (TS2M0) of Base SAS software on AIX as documented in the "Issue(s) Addressed" section of the hot fix download page: http://ftp.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/82_sbcs_prod_list.html#82bc42 The hot fix package that is downloaded is in compressed tar format. The name of the tar file is 82bc42ar.tar.Z, and it contains the following files: * sasrpt.82bc42 the replacement executable containing the hot fix * sasrpt a link to sasrpt.82bc42 * sastabul.82bc42 the replacement executable containing the hot fix * sastabul a link to sastabul.82bc42 * 82bc42ar.aud a hot fix identifier file that will allow Technical Support to determine which fixes have been applied to a system * 82bc42ar.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. 2. You must have Administrator Privileges on your CLIENT or SERVER machine. 3. All currently active SAS sessions, daemons, spawners and servers must be terminated 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/82bc42ar.tar | tar -xf - STEP 2: Once the tar command is complete, the following line must be added as the first line of the !SASROOT/sasv8.cfg file: -path !SASROOT/hotfix/sasexe Do not modify any existing -PATH options in the !SASROOT/sasv8.cfg file. STEP 3: Change the ownership (using the chown command) and permissions (using the chmod command) 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 82BC42 on AIX.