INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS FOR HOT FIX 82BW03 ON WINDOWS BEFORE DOWNLOADING: The hot fix 82BW03 addresses the issue(s) in Release 8.2 (TS2M0) of SAS/ACCESS Interface to SAP BW software on Windows as documented in SAS Note(s): SN-006764 Runtime error when extracting or displaying InfoCube with 0DATE attribute from InfoObject SN-006766 Cannot extract InfoCubes from SAS/ACCESS to SAP BW which have compound characteristics where reference character of compound in SID table does not match InfoObject name SN-006765 SQL star view requires excessive space for temporary files in SAS/ACCESS to SAP BW SN-007682 Error creating formats for class variables during InfoCube data extraction within SAS/ACCESS Interface to SAP BW SN-007675 Full extraction versus change data capture for InfoCubes and ODS in SAS/ACCESS Interface to SAP BW SN-007719 SAS/ACCESS Interface to SAP BW extraction does not recognize certain error conditions SN-007674 Metadata extractions with FIELDS and TABLES selected from SAS/ACCESS Interface to SAP BW returns metadata about non-relevant tables SN-010160 Local ODS table data extraction within SAS/ACCESS Interface to SAP BW using remote metadata causes syntax error SN-008892 Fields metadata error when extracting data from ODS table from within SAS/ACCESS Interface to SAP BW SN-010159 Change Data Capture feature in SAS/ACCESS to SAP BW retrieves incorrect infocube or ODS table data for compressed tables in SAP BW SN-010158 Formats created for infocubes in SAS/ACCESS to SAP BW are not descriptive which may be reviewed at: http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/006/006764.html http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/006/006766.html http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/006/006765.html http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/007/007682.html http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/007/007675.html http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/007/007719.html http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/007/007674.html http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/010/010160.html http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/008/008892.html http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/010/010159.html http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/010/010158.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 82bw03wn.exe. Launching the executable will initiate the install wizard, which will guide you through the setup process. The following files will be installed: * accbw.sas7bcat the replacement catalog containing the hot fix * accbw.sas7bdat the replacement data set containing the hot fix * accbw.sas7bndx the replacement index containing the hot fix * accbwmt.sas7bdat the replacement data set containing the hot fix * 82bw03wn.aud a hot fix identifier file that will allow Technical Support to determine which fixes have been applied to a system * 82bw03wn.txt a copy of these installation instructions; this file is installed in !SASROOT\core\sasinst\hotfix This completes the installation of hot fix 82BW03 on Windows.