SAS Enterprise
SAS Enterprise
SAS Enterprise
This document provides requirements for installing and running SAS Enterprise Guide software.
Before you run this software, you must update your system to meet the minimum requirements.
These are the major requirements listed in the document:
• Software Requirements
• Hardware Requirements
• Additional Features
• Space Requirements
• Specific Product Requirements
For additional information and to view the latest system requirements for your system, access the SAS
Web site at http://support.sas.com/documentation/installcenter/ or contact SAS
Technical Support. Sites in the U.S. and Canada may call (919) 677-8008. Other sites should contact
their SAS Installation Representative or SAS Support Consultant for the nearest SAS office.
Software Requirements
Operating System
Important: Administrator privilege is required to install various system updates. To insure that
Enterprise Guide software can be completely and safely installed, it is required that
the installer have administrator privilege.
Network Installations
Long filename support is required on any Windows Server or Novell Server where a server installation
is performed.
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Windows XP
SAS Enterprise Guide 4.1 is supported on Windows XP updated with Service Pack 2, on 32-bit
architecture only.
Windows 2000
SAS Enterprise Guide 4.1 is supported on Windows 2000 Professional and all Windows 2000 Server
Editions. Windows 2000 requires Service Pack 3 or higher.
Windows Vista
Please refer to http://support.sas.com/techsup/pcn/vista.html for a description of the
editions of Windows Vista that support SAS Enterprise Guide 4.1.
Hardware Requirements
Machines Supported
Intel or Intel-compatible Pentium III class processor (minimum 800 MHz recommended), with a
minimum of 256 MB of memory (512 MB or more recommended).
Monitors Supported
SVGA, 800x600 with normal size 96 DPI font setting (1024x768 or higher resolution recommended).
Additional Features
Web Browser
A Web browser is required for use with Enterprise Guide software. This Web browser must be
Internet Explorer, Version 5.5 or higher.
Viewing HTML Pages Created with ActiveX and Java Device Drivers
The ActiveX and Java device drivers allow you to create HTML pages from within the SAS System
using Enterprise Guide software.
• The HTML pages created with the ActiveX device driver can only be viewed with Internet
Explorer, Version 5.5 or higher on Windows operating systems.
• The HTML pages created with the Java device driver can only be viewed with the following
Java-enabled versions of Internet Explorer, Version 5.5 or higher, or Netscape, Version 6.2.3
or higher.
The SAS 9.1 version of the Java Graph applets requires version 1.4.2 of the Java runtime environment
(JRE) which is located on the Third Party Software Components CD in the SAS 9.1 package. This JRE
is also available for download from the Sun Web site, at http://www.sun.com.
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Electronic Mail
Send to E-Mail Recipient is provided as a menu item in the File pull-down menu. This feature
allows electronic mail messages to be initiated from within Enterprise Guide software using the MAPI
subsystem. This requires installation of third party products such as Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft
Outlook Express, or Lotus Notes 4.0 (32-bit version only) and above. SMTP e-mail server access via
MAPI requires an Internet connection.
SAS Enterprise Guide also supports Send To E-Mail Recipient operations as a step in the SAS
Enterprise Guide project; this feature requires that SMTP mail server options are configured within
the SAS Enterprise Guide options.
Space Requirements
Disk Space Requirements
For more information, please see the table below.
• System Components 154 MB
• SAS Enterprise Guide and components 236 MB
• Total Required Disk Space 376 MB
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Required System Components Version Disk Space
Required
Microsoft .Net Framework 1.1 *110 MB
Microsoft Data Access Components 2.7 **20 MB
Microsoft Jet 4.0 Components 4.0SP8 8 MB
(Service Pack 8, described at
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=
kb;en-us;829558)
Visual C++ Redistributables Bundle 6.0 10 MB
Visual C++ Redistributables Bundle 7.0 4 MB
Visual C++ Redistributables Bundle 7.1 2 MB
* The .NET Framework requires 150 MB during the install process for creation of temporary files. The
final footprint after the install is 110 MB. The .NET Framework also requires Microsoft Internet
Explorer 5.01 or later. We also strongly recommend you install Service Pack 1 for .Net Framework
1.1. The Service Pack is available on the System Requirements media in the following folder:
redist\dotnet\SP1. SAS does not automatically install this Service Pack due to Microsoft
requirements documented in
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;899619.
**Needed for Windows 2000 systems only.
Note 1: More information about the MDAC distribution, including a complete file manifest, can be
found at http://www.microsoft.com/data.
Note 2: The following table displays files that are installed by Microsoft Runtime Components.
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SAS/Third party Components Version Disk Space Required
SAS Integration Technologies 9.1 4.5 MB
SAS OLE/DB 9.1 4.1 MB
SAS ActiveX Graph Control 8.2 5.0 MB
SAS ActiveX Graph Control 9.1 9.4 MB
SAS Enhanced Editor 9.1 2.4 MB
SAS Formats 9.1 1.4 MB
Xerces XML Parser 1.5.1 1.3 MB
SAS BI Client Tasks 4.1 48.0 MB
SAS BI Client OLAP 1.3 16.4 MB
SAS Enterprise Styles 4.1 1.1 MB
SAS Enterprise Clients Images 4.1 12 MB
SAS Image 9.1 12.4 MB
SAS Enterprise Guide 4.1 *118 MB
* Approximately 20-30 MB of additional space is required for each language you choose to install,
depending on the language.
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Note: Before you can use Enterprise Guide software to access OLE DB for OLAP data, an OLE DB
for OLAP provider for the data source from which you want to access data is required. OLE
DB providers are often available from DBMS vendors and other third party software
vendors. The OLE DB for OLAP provider you choose may require additional DBMS software
for network access. All required network software supplied by your database system vendor
must be 32-bit-compliant.
Note 1: SAS Integration Technologies software is not required when accessing a SAS server running
on the same PC as the client software (a local server), unless you intend to use certain SAS
Integration Technologies features, such as Publish.
Note 2: SAS/SECURE 168-bit software is required to establish certain encrypted sessions between
Enterprise Guide software and the SAS Server. A proprietary weak encryption is supported
without the use of SAS/SECURE 168-bit software.
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19 November 2008
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