INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS FOR HOT FIX 82SH09 ON OPENVMS ALPHA BEFORE DOWNLOADING: The hot fix 82SH09 addresses the issue(s) in Release 8.2 (TS2M0) of SAS/SHARE software on OpenVMS Alpha as documented in SAS Note(s): SN-004909 Cross-architecture catalog access fails to reflect updates by same architect clients in a SAS/SHARE environment SN-006581 Cross-architecture RLS catalog access fails to reflect updates by server side in a SAS/CONNECT environment SN-005507 Loop in SAS/SHARE server with Yielding to Wait messages SN-006053 Concurrent updates against shared data on a SAS/SHARE server might compromise data integrity SN-005185 "WZX: conversion buffer overflowed" error with SAS/CONNECT RLS SN-005745 Version 6 data set header corruption by Version 8 SAS/SHARE cross-architecture client SN-005694 VIEWTABLE, Table Viewer, and Data Table WHERE clauses might return incorrect results through SAS/CONNECT RLS SN-006387 Explicit locking against Version 6 SAS/SHARE server can compromise data integrity SN-005187 "WZX: conversion buffer overflowed" error with SAS/SHARE RLS SN-005697 VIEWTABLE, Table Viewer, and Data Table WHERE clauses might return incorrect results through SAS/SHARE RLS SN-007225 Using PROC FSEDIT with a WHERE statement in SAS/SHARE across platforms and releases generates error message SN-006337 Memory abends may occur when processing SAS data with a WHERE clause through remote library services. SN-009498 CLOSE function through REMOTE engine abends CONNECT server side SN-009371 KEY= value not found in SAS/SHARE cross-platform and cross-release environment SN-009499 CLOSE function through REMOTE engine abends SHARE server side SN-009549 "Library damaged" error message appears when reading large catalog entry through REMOTE engine SN-007490 PROC OPERATE and DISPLAY USER returning two rows of output to SAS/SHARE server SAS Log SN-010004 Creating new catalog via RLS (Remote Library Services) through SAS/CONNECT results in appending to existing catalog SN-010876 S0C4 in SAS/SHARE Server SN-011360 PROC SQL with SHARE via XMS produces incorrect results SN-014465 WARNING: Task is in hold-term SN-016778 server NOALLOC option is not completely honored in certain cases which may be reviewed at: http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/004/004909.html http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/006/006581.html http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/005/005507.html http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/006/006053.html http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/005/005185.html http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/005/005745.html http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/005/005694.html http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/006/006387.html http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/005/005187.html http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/005/005697.html http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/007/007225.html http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/006/006337.html http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/009/009498.html http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/009/009371.html http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/009/009499.html http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/009/009549.html http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/007/007490.html http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/010/010004.html http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/010/010876.html http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/011/011360.html http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/014/014465.html http://support.sas.com/techsup/unotes/SN/016/016778.html The hot fix package downloaded is in zip format. The name of the zip file is 82sh09av.zip, and it contains the following files: * sasshrae.exe the replacement executable containing the hot fix * sasyhre6.exe the replacement executable containing the hot fix * sasyhre7.exe the replacement executable containing the hot fix * sasyhrop.exe the replacement executable containing the hot fix * sasyhrsq.exe the replacement executable containing the hot fix * sasyhrsv.exe the replacement executable containing the hot fix * sasyhrwt.exe the replacement executable containing the hot fix * saswxxc .exe the replacement executable containing the hot fix * share.msg the replacement message file containing the hot fix * sasi6rmt.exe the replacement executable containing the hot fix * sasiormt.exe the replacement executable containing the hot fix * sasyheri.exe the replacement executable containing the hot fix * sasodbcs.exe the replacement executable containing the hot fix * sasserve.exe the replacement executable containing the hot fix * 82sh09av.aud a hot fix identifier file that will allow Technical Support to determine which fixes have been applied to a system * 82sh09av.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 UNZIPAV.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]UNZIPAV.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, 82SH09AV.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]82SH09AV.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]82SH09AV.ZIP" The "-X" parameter must be in uppercase for this command to work properly. This completes the installation of hot fix 82SH09 on OpenVMS Alpha.