SAS Information Map Studio 4.31 :: SAS(R) 9.3 Guide to Software Updates

Special Considerations in SAS Information Map Studio 4.31

SAS Information Map Studio cannot open an information map that uses the advanced join model, assigned results filter, or localized properties features that were introduced in SAS 9.3. You can use the INFOMAPS procedure in SAS 9.3 to add these features to an information map.
For SAS Information Map Studio, continue to use stored processes that are compatible with SAS 9.2. Upgrading stored processes to use new features that are available in SAS 9.3 might cause errors when the upgraded stored processes are used by information maps. If you have already upgraded your stored processes and you are experiencing problems, you can make your stored processes compatible with SAS 9.2. For more information, see the Make Compatible feature in the SAS 9.3 Management Console Help.
If you cannot find a stored process in SAS Information Map Studio, the SAS 9.3 Hide from user option might have been specified for the stored process.

Upgrading from SAS Information Map Studio 3.1

SAS Information Map Studio 3.1 runs on SAS 9.1.3. The following considerations apply to SAS Information Map Studio 4.31 customers who are upgrading from SAS Information Map Studio 3.1.

The following changes to filters and prompts might affect how your filters function:
- When you create a filter that is based on a column, the filter can now be seen in SAS Web Report Studio. For information about how to hide a filter from SAS Web Report Studio, see the SAS Information Map Studio Help.
- Prior to SAS Information Map Studio 4.2, if no value was returned for an identity-driven property, then an error message was issued when a filter that used one of these properties was executed. In SAS Information Map Studio 4.31, no error message is issued. Instead, when no value is returned for an identity-driven property, an empty string value is used in the filter. For more information about identity-driven properties, see the chapter on fine-grained controls in the SAS Intelligence Platform: Security Administration Guide.
- When you create a prompt, you can no longer use a data item's value-generation method for that prompt. In SAS Information Map Studio 4.31, you can specify a similar method within the prompt itself. Any prompt that was created before this release and that relies on the value-generation method of a data item will be converted to use its own corresponding method. If a converted prompt originally used a static (custom) list from a data item, then that list is added to the prompt during the conversion.
- When you import, migrate, or open from XML an information map that was created prior to SAS Information Map Studio 4.2, the following special considerations apply to any of its prompts with a static (custom) list:
  
  If the static list contains duplicate formatted values, then each unformatted value is enclosed in square brackets ([ ]) and appended to its corresponding formatted value.
  
  If the static list contains a row that is invalid in SAS Information Map Studio 4.31 (for example, if a row contains blank or null unformatted values), then the row is deleted.
- When you export or migrate an information map that was created prior to SAS Information Map Studio 4.2, the default values for any multi-value prompts within that information map are saved in reverse order.
- SAS Information Map Studio 4.31 cannot automatically convert prompt values to uppercase before a query is run. Any prompt that was created prior to SAS Information Map Studio 4.2 but that is saved in this release will also lose that ability. For more information about prompts, see the SAS Information Map Studio 4.31 Help.
You can no longer export information maps as XML files. (You can still use the Open from XML menu option to import previously exported information maps.) For information about importing and exporting information maps as packages, see the section about using promotion tools in the SAS Intelligence Platform: System Administration Guide.
The icons in the user interface no longer indicate when a table column is a unique key or when you are denied WriteMetadata access to an information map or folder.

Upgrading from SAS Information Map Studio 4.2

SAS Information Map Studio 4.31 has the same new features and enhancements as SAS Information Map Studio 4.2. The difference between these two releases is that SAS Information Map Studio 4.31 runs on SAS 9.3, and SAS Information Map Studio 4.2 runs on SAS 9.2.