Hot fix F9L018 addresses the issue(s) in SAS Visual Analytics 7.5 as documented
in the Issue(s) Addressed section of the hot fix download page:
https://tshf.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/HF2/F9L.html#F9L018
F9L018 is a "container" hot fix that contains the following "member" hot fixes which will update the software components
as needed.
G1S018 updates SAS Home 7.5
G1Y018 updates SAS Visual Analytics Administrator 7.5
G1R018 updates SAS Visual Analytics Designer 7.5
G1V005 updates SAS Visual Analytics Explorer 7.5
G1U018 updates SAS Visual Analytics Graph Builder 7.5
G1W018 updates SAS Visual Analytics High-Performance Configuration 7.5
G1Q018 updates SAS Visual Analytics Printing Support 7.5
G1P018 updates SAS Visual Analytics Report Viewer 7.5
F9M018 updates SAS Visual Analytics Services 7.5
G1X018 updates SAS Visual Data Builder 7.5
G6Y017 updates SAS Visual Analytics Explorer Logical Types 7.5
G6X017 updates Visual Analytics Logical Types 7.5
Before applying this hot fix, follow the instructions in SAS Note 35968 to
generate a SAS Deployment Registry report, then verify that the appropriate product releases are installed on your system. The
release number information in the Registry report should match the 'member' release number information provided above for the
software components installed on each machine in your deployment.
The hot fix downloaded, F9L018pt.zip, includes the updates required for all components listed above on all applicable operating systems. To apply this hot fix on multiple machines, you can either save F9L018pt.zip on each machine or save it in a network location that is accessible to all machines.
Do NOT extract the contents of F9L018pt.zip. The hot fix installation process will extract the contents as needed.
The hot fix will be applied using the SAS Deployment Manager. By default, the SAS Deployment Manager will search in the <SASHOME>/InstallMisc/HotFixes/New directory for hot fixes to be applied, but will also prompt for a location if you have downloaded hot fixes to a different directory.
After downloading F9L018pt.zip, follow the instructions for applying hot fixes in the SAS Deployment Wizard and SAS Deployment Manager 9.4: User's Guide.
Please review the CONFIGURATION Important Note above concerning proper selection of the "Configure SAS Hot Fix" option in the SAS Deployment Manager.
The hot fix installation process generates the log file
<!SASHOME>/InstallMisc/InstallLogs/IT_date-and-time-stamp.logfor example, IT_2011-10-31-13.18.21.log. Each attempt to apply a hot fix results in the creation of a new log file giving detailed information regarding the installation process.
Postexec log files are created after the installation is completed and identifies the files that were added, backed up, changed and removed. These log files include the 'member' hot fix id in the name of the file and are also written to the <!SASHOME>/InstallMisc/InstallLogs directory. There is one postexec log for each 'member' hot fix applied (member hot fixes are listed at the top of these instructions).
The content of this hot fix is listed in the hot fix manifest.
This hot fix requires post-installation steps that will update the web application deployed to your application server.
For more information about how to rebuild and redeploy Web Applications, see the SASĀ® 9.4 Intelligence Platform, Middle-Tier Administration Guide, Chapter 8 Administering SAS Web Applications.
NOTE: In order for this step to execute correctly, the Metadata Server must be running.
Select the appropriate product as the Web Application to Rebuild; it is recommended that you rebuild and redeploy all of the web applications after applying this hot fix.
Redeploy the updated wars to the web application server.
rm -r <SASHOME>\SASVisualAnalyticsPrintingSupport\7.5\PrintSupport\explodedThis process will replace, sas.birdprt.jar, with updates to Printing Support.
mkdir <SASHOME>\SASVisualAnalyticsPrintingSupport\7.5\PrintSupport\exploded
From a Command Prompt execute the following command:
<SASHome>\SASPrivateJavaRuntimeEnvironment\9.4\jre\bin\java -jar <SASHOME>\SASVisualAnalyticsPrintingSupport\7.5\Static\wars\sas.birdprt.jar --install <SASHOME>\SASVisualAnalyticsPrintingSupport\7.5\PrintSupport\exploded
This completes the installation of hot fix F9L018 on Linux for x64.
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