https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/Applying-new-license-to-SAS-Viya4-using-the-Deployment-Operator/m-p/981463#M30561 <P>Hello<BR />In the documentation for <A href="https://documentation.sas.com/doc/en/sasadmincdc/v_068/callicense/n14rkqa3cycmd0n1ub50k47x7lbb.htm#p1iyxeqiecfnlyn1st1epp6unzax" target="_self">applying new license to SAS Viya4 using the Deployment Operator &nbsp;</A><BR />it says "Applying your license using the SAS Viya Platform Deployment Operator requires an outage <BR />for your SAS Viya platform"<BR />Does that mean stopping SAS Viya4 deployment before applying license?</P> Sun, 04 Jan 2026 16:53:10 GMT thesasuser 2026-01-04T16:53:10Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/Applying-new-license-to-SAS-Viya4-using-the-Deployment-Operator/m-p/981463#M30561 <P>Hello<BR />In the documentation for <A href="https://documentation.sas.com/doc/en/sasadmincdc/v_068/callicense/n14rkqa3cycmd0n1ub50k47x7lbb.htm#p1iyxeqiecfnlyn1st1epp6unzax" target="_self">applying new license to SAS Viya4 using the Deployment Operator &nbsp;</A><BR />it says "Applying your license using the SAS Viya Platform Deployment Operator requires an outage <BR />for your SAS Viya platform"<BR />Does that mean stopping SAS Viya4 deployment before applying license?</P> Sun, 04 Jan 2026 16:53:10 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/Applying-new-license-to-SAS-Viya4-using-the-Deployment-Operator/m-p/981463#M30561 thesasuser 2026-01-04T16:53:10Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/Applying-new-license-to-SAS-Viya4-using-the-Deployment-Operator/m-p/981559#M30566 <P>From my experience when you run the license update the Operator might stop and start some pods which can cause an temporary outage.</P> Tue, 06 Jan 2026 06:50:39 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/Applying-new-license-to-SAS-Viya4-using-the-Deployment-Operator/m-p/981559#M30566 EyalGonen 2026-01-06T06:50:39Z