SAS Order Information :: SAS(R) 9.3 Guide to Software Updates

After you download your order to an existing SAS Software Depot, you can use the SAS Order Information (SOI) file to determine the contents in your order and when the order was placed. The location of the SOI is in your SAS Software Depot. On Windows, this path is install_doc\order-number\soi.html. On UNIX and z/OS, this path is install_doc/order-number/soi.html.

Here is an example of the information that you might see in the SAS Order Information file.

In the SOI, review the following information:

the Deployment type field.
- If Basic is the deployment type, then you are installing only Foundation SAS at your site. Products that are included with Foundation SAS include Base SAS, SAS/ACCESS software, and SAS/GRAPH. For more information about Foundation SAS, see Understanding Foundation SAS.
- If Planned (Deployment plan needed) is the deployment type, then a deployment plan is needed when you initially install SAS or when you are adding a product to your SAS deployment. For more information, see About Deployment Plans in SAS Intelligence Platform: Installation and Configuration Guide. A deployment plan is not required if you are upgrading a product that is already installed at your site. For example, a deployment plan is not required if you are applying the first maintenance release to SAS Enterprise Miner 7.1. However, the deployment plan was required when you initially installed SAS Enterprise Miner 7.1.
the Product field to confirm that your order is for SAS 9.3.

To determine when your order was placed, use the revision number in the Product field. In this example, the revision number is Rev. 930_11w50, which means that the software initially shipped in the 50th week of 2011.
the list of products ordered to determine whether any new products are included in your order. Any new products that you are licensing are indicated by an asterisk.