SAS Migration Utility Overview
The SAS Migration Utility is an Ant-based framework and set of SAS product extensions
whose primary purpose is to create a package of your current SAS content—data and
configuration—that the uses when it installs and configures SAS 9.4. The migration utility framework consists
of a two-phase process: an analyze phase and a package phase.
In the analyze phase,
the migration utility locates the SAS content required for migration,
performs a validation to ensure the content can be reliably migrated,
and saves the required information for the migration utility package
phase. During the analyze phase, the migration utility generates a
migration analysis report that you can use to inventory and enumerate
those SAS products found on your current SAS system to be eligible
for automatic migration with the deployment wizard.
In the package phase,
the migration utility searches the system and copies SAS content into
a migration package that is used by the deployment wizard as it installs
and configures SAS 9.4.
IMPORTANT The SAS Migration Utility does not support symbolic
links that occur in the SAS configuration directory's
LevX directory. You must
adjust the SAS configuration directory's
LevX directory or file
structure to remove the symbolic links and replace them with the actual directories
or files
before running the utility. Afterward, the original directory or file structure can
be restored
using symbolic links, if necessary.For more information
about how to use the SAS Migration Utility, see Inventorying Your Current SAS Deployment.
Last updated: March 16, 2026