If you are manually migrating EM models from SAS 9.1 to SAS 9.2 then it is a relatively easy task.
The process is:
- Copy the entire EM project structure to the new server (assuming you are going from like platform, i.e windows to like platform, i.e windows)
- In EM 6.1 create a new project and call it the same name as the one you copied and give it the same path
- When it tells you it already exists the accept the warning.
Wallah your EM project is now in SAS 9.2 / EM 6.1
(Warning you can;t send it back to EM 5.1)
I did strike a few gotach’s:
- I hadn’t migrated the SAS formats that the tables in EM model were using, so it didn’t import the tables, but also didn’t give me an error, they just didn’t show up. Once i migrated the formats, it was fine (had to recopy the EM project files though)
- I got some horrendous SCL error when opening the Diagrams, so ended up deleting them, exporting them as xml objects in EM 5.1 and then importing them as new diagrams in EM 6.1
Hi Shane,
I’m glad to hear your migration went well.
Assuming you have a lot of models, you may also want to consider using the SAS Migration Utility (http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/bimig/61696/HTML/default/mig600.htm).
One other thing to be aware of is that if you are migrating between different processor architectures (i.e. 32-bit to 64-bit), you will need to use PROC MIGRATE to convert the Enterprise Miner data sets (in the project).
Thanks for using SAS!
Alex