At 01:38 PM 12/16/2003, you wrote:
I've tried looking on the SAS web site, but I cannot find a list of
"supported platforms" for SAS. Does anybody know if SAS can run on Linux?
Specifically, I have SuSE SLES7 beta, 64-bit (the free thing that I
downloaded long ago). What would be nice would be to move some "heavy
hitters" from my z/OS system (which is CPU constrainted) to the Linux system
which runs on an IFL (which is basically idle at present).
FWIW, SAS surveys its users each year to prioritize
its development efforts. In the 2002 ballot,
a port to mainframe Linux garnered 77 votes (the 200th
most popular item; by comparison, a port to Linux for
Itanium garnered 95 votes (181st most popular request)).
I'll add a related note: SAS/Connect enables a process
on one host to initiate SAS processing on a different
host (assuming that host has a SAS/Connect listener running).
If you *do* get a SAS beta for Linux/390, you may want to
look into that. If, for whatever reason, you *don't* get
SAS running on Linux/390, you might still be able to
offload some CPU load to a SAS host on a different platform
(Linux/Intel, UNIX, Wintel, etc.)
