At one time there was a SAS-L. Don't know if it still exists. It was very active. Also, the people at mxg.com might be able to help.
> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On > Behalf Of Steve Estle > Sent: Saturday, September 23, 2023 5:53 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: SAS for ZOS 9.4.8 Install/Upgrade Experiences? > > [EXTERNAL EMAIL] > > 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 > [email protected] > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
