Upgrading to M8 is not trivial. Here is the recommended process for a production environment.
Starting with M8, SAS/GRAPH Java Applets for Web Servers and SAS/GRAPH ActiveX Control are no longer available. sas 9.4m8
For SAS programmers, M8 brings quality-of-life improvements that feel like modernization without breaking 40-year-old code: Upgrading to M8 is not trivial
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