INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS FOR HOT FIX 82OC07 ON WINDOWS


BEFORE DOWNLOADING:


The hot fix 82OC07 addresses the issue(s) in Release 8.2 (TS2M0) 
of SAS/ACCESS Interface to ORACLE software on Windows as documented in SAS Note(s):  

      SN-005272 V8 formats are not compatible with  V6 formats with
                SQL Pass-through facility for Char and Number   
      SN-008203 Bulkload userid/password are passed to the Unix Shell     
      SN-001162 No data found error may occur when trying to update
                oracle table     
      SN-012675 Using DBSASTYPE=(VAR="CHAR17")) gets value padded with
      SN-009383 Datetime value containing 24 as hour value fails to
                load into Oracle     

which may be reviewed at:

      http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/005/005272.html
      http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/008/008203.html
      http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/001/001162.html
      http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/012/012675.html
      http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/009/009383.html


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
    and all currently active SAS sessions, daemons, spawners and servers
    must be terminated before applying this hot fix.


AFTER DOWNLOADING:

The hot fix package downloaded is a self extracting executable named 
82oc07wn.exe.  Launching the executable will initiate the install wizard, 
which will guide you through the setup process.  The following files will
be installed:

      * sasioora.dll
             the replacement module containing the hot fix

      * dbiora.msg
             the replacement message file containing the hot fix

      * 82oc07wn.aud
             a hot fix identifier file that will allow Technical Support
             to determine which fixes have been applied to a system

      * 82oc07wn.txt
             a copy of these installation instructions; this file is installed
             in !SASROOT\core\sasinst\hotfix 



This completes the installation of hot fix 82OC07 on Windows.