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Effect on implicit enhancement while doing patch/upgrade

Former Member — Thu, 04 Jul 2013 12:23:46 GMT

Hi Experts ,

Can anyone Help me out ,I need to know that ,During patch/upgrade will it affect implicit enhancement .

Please Clarify On it ,I have searched in forums regarding this all are assumed answer ,

Let me know wether it wil affect implicit enhancement or not with any senario.

its urgent !

thanks in advance

Bala

Re: Effect on implicit enhancement while doing patch/upgrade

Former Member — Thu, 04 Jul 2013 17:53:00 GMT

Hi Bala,

To the best of my knowledge SAP does not take any responsibility of any implicit enhancement you do in its codes so during any upgrades or patches your implicit enhancement will not be affected.

BR.

Re: Effect on implicit enhancement while doing patch/upgrade

Former Member — Thu, 04 Jul 2013 18:14:35 GMT

Ah, but there's an exception... SAP gave the name range to us for our use. But how many times have they created Z Programs in notes for us to load.

So yes in reality, though they shouldn't, they may force the replacement of your implicit enhancement logic. They did the last time that we Patched...

Just understand, they can do that to anything that you write. So, it's no worse than any of their other errors. So let's call it job security!

Neal

Re: Effect on implicit enhancement while doing patch/upgrade

Former Member — Thu, 04 Jul 2013 18:33:45 GMT

Hi Neal,

Thanks for letting us know .

BR.

Re: Effect on implicit enhancement while doing patch/upgrade

Former Member — Fri, 05 Jul 2013 09:54:27 GMT

thanks neal,so it will affect our impilicit enhancement rite .

Re: Effect on implicit enhancement while doing patch/upgrade

Former Member — Fri, 05 Jul 2013 09:55:42 GMT

thanks ankit for your response

Re: Effect on implicit enhancement while doing patch/upgrade

Former Member — Fri, 05 Jul 2013 09:57:48 GMT

Neal, may i know the notes no .

Re: Effect on implicit enhancement while doing patch/upgrade

ThomasZloch — Fri, 05 Jul 2013 11:05:50 GMT

While your implicit enhancement will not get overwritten during an upgrade, it is well possible that it might cease to function correctly. Especially when working with the same data objects as the standard code around your enhancement, and SAP changes the logic during an upgrade, there could be some effort required to rebuild the functionality (if it is still possible at all).

Thomas

Re: Effect on implicit enhancement while doing patch/upgrade

Former Member — Fri, 05 Jul 2013 12:18:09 GMT

Thomas Zloch,

But it can get overwritten. As I said above, It only requires SAP to invade our namespace. As they did in our installation.

Neal

Re: Effect on implicit enhancement while doing patch/upgrade

Former Member — Fri, 05 Jul 2013 12:22:31 GMT

In this case, it was not a note (though I am sure there was a note that implemented it). It adding EHP5 on top of ECC6.

Re: Effect on implicit enhancement while doing patch/upgrade

Former Member — Fri, 05 Jul 2013 12:29:20 GMT

You say will. That implies that SAP would seek out our implicit enhancements to overwrite them.

Implicit enhancements have been around since ECC5 (as far as I know, I've been doing this a little longer). That's a lot of years. And in all of this time, this is the first semi documented occurrence that I have heard of.

So, there is a very small chance that you could get hit by something like this.

Hope this helps,

Neal

Re: Effect on implicit enhancement while doing patch/upgrade

Former Member — Fri, 05 Jul 2013 12:51:10 GMT

Thanks Neal