Linux patches affecting SAS

[ajit_sas]

Dear experts,

Is there any way to validate OS (linux) patches if any of the OS patches has known or reported issues with SAS 9.4 ? My company is planning to apply security and OS patches for RHEL 7.2. In the past some of the patches affected my cron jobs hence had to revert the patching.

We do not want to get into the same situation and try to mitigate the risk .

[SASKiwi · Accepted solution]

If you have a SAS test environment then that would be the best way to check these out. You would hope that the company supplying linux would be sufficiently testing OS patches before releasing them so you don't need to test them a second time.