topic Re: Technical Upgrade in Application Development and Automation Discussions

Technical Upgrade

Former Member — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 14:41:49 GMT

Hi,

We are planning to do Technical upgrade for all systems. This technical upgrade places newer versions of

AIX server patches, DB2 database Fix packs, SAP kernel executables and SAP application Support Packages.

Can anyone please let me know what these patches mean and in which transactions i can see them?

Thanks!

Re: Technical Upgrade

Former Member — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 14:56:51 GMT

If you choose Menu System->Status you will see a section "SAP System Data" and a small pushbutton (Magnifying glass), if you hit that, you will see 2 tabs.

Re: Technical Upgrade

former_member181966 — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 15:04:55 GMT

Patches you can see in transaction "SPAM "...

http://help.sap.com/printdocu/core/Print46c/en/data/pdf/BCUPGOCSSPAM/BCUPGOCSSPAM.pdf

http://sap.ittoolbox.com/documents/popular-q-and-a/applying-a-hot-patch-step-by-step-1731

http://www.citrix.com/site/resources/dynamic/partnerDocs/Customer620Installation.doc

Hope this’ll give you idea!!

<b>P.S award the points.</b>

Good luck

Thanks

Saquib Khan

"Some are wise and some are otherwise"

Re: Technical Upgrade

Former Member — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 15:40:07 GMT

Thanks Saquib.

Can you please give me an overview of why they install these patches? are they security patches? and if they had installed these patches before user training, is this going to affect?

Thanks!

Re: Technical Upgrade

Former Member — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 16:01:05 GMT

Patches are what they mean, literally. They patch an existing hole in the system, whether it is logic bug, or missing functionality or a security risk or added functionality. Even though a technical upgrade should not have any impact on user training, sometimes, a patch, while fixing something may break something else. Other than that you should be ok.

Re: Technical Upgrade

Former Member — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 18:54:36 GMT

Hi Srinivas,

Could you please let me know in which Transactions can we view if the Patch has been successful or not?

Thanks!

Re: Technical Upgrade

Former Member — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 19:01:34 GMT

Saquib already gave you that. It is SPAM.

Re: Technical Upgrade

Former Member — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:49:54 GMT

Can you view even the AIX ,DB2 patches in transaction SPAM?

Thanks!

Re: Technical Upgrade

Former Member — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 14:56:57 GMT

No, that is different from your SAP upgrades. You have to refer to the corresponding software provider tools for that.