Everyone, I support a secure government environment that has limited ability to connect directly to vendor software download sites and am embarking on effort to upgrade our SAS for ZOS from 9.4.7 to 9.4.8 - you would think simple / simon but is my first time with this software package install/upgrade and am struggling with the process SAS dictates to get software from there sites. They use a tool called SAS download manager - one for ZOS, Windows, Linux, etc. Curious for those sites that have SAS for ZOS, how are you getting software from SAS site to your ZOS system(s)? SAS does not offer any sort of FTP like functionality and forces you to use download manager which unfortunately is not so simple to use - at least not on ZOS. SAS packaging for ZOS relies very heavily on Unix System Services for the packaging, install, maintenance, and deployments/customization.
One other item, if you have engaged SAS support on regular basis, how would you rate your SAS support experience? Mine to say the least is challenging - one of the issues we've run into under SAS 9.4.7 is interfacing SAS 9.4.7 with CICS web services and ATTLS - they seem to not be too savvy in this space - found out they do not have / nor test CICS in there ZOS / lab test environment at all and we have programmer who has written code for SAS to talk to CICS web services to extract information. This is one of the reasons we are moving to SAS 9.4.8 as they repackage the OpenSSL such that it now relies on system SSL libraries / encryption routines vs. packing there own. Anyways if interested in talking further / sharing experiences / or maybe have some good contacts relative to SAS, please let me know. Appreciate any/all ideas. Thanks in advance, Steve Estle sest...@gmail.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
