Basic upgrade questions

[Former Member]

Hi all,

can anyone tell me what is the role of a techinical consultant in sap during an upgrade.

we are upgrading from 4.6c to 5

My questions are

1) when we move all our zobjects in to new version, do we need to go to each and every zobject and activate again and check for errors

2) coming to unicode ,you get the errors when you activate the zobject right, then what is the purpose of uccheck and scov

3) what is the use of transaction SPAU and spad

4)I heard that the declaration of header line while creating internal table is no longer allowed i.e we should create a work area and loop in that

is what i heard is right?

all these things are assumptions,please let me know your thoughts and correct if i'm wrong

other than this are any other things that are to be known as a techinical consultant

if you have any documnets forward it to

deepthinandini81@yahoo.com

Thanks

deepthi

[Former Member]

Hi,

Some of my answers are below.

1) when we move all our zobjects in to new version, do we need to go to each and every zobject and activate again and check for errors

A). No not required the system will automatically trigger RSGEN programs to automatically generate all the programs. You will only need to adjust and activate those programs which are identified as issues in SPAU.

2) coming to unicode ,you get the errors when you activate the zobject right, then what is the purpose of uccheck and scov

A). Unicode enforces stringent syntax checks so some of the old programs will end up in errors. You can make the programs unicode compliant to remove all the errors.

3) what is the use of transaction SPAU and spad

A). Check this link http://www.sap-img.com/bc018.htm

4)I heard that the declaration of header line while creating internal table is no longer allowed i.e we should create a work area and loop in that

is what i heard is right?

A). This is kinda true only for object oriented programming. Not true for normal programming however coding standards set by many companies suggest to use different workareas for better coding and maintenance.

<b>Upgrade Procedure</b>

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/60/d6ba7bceda11d1953a0000e82de14a/content.htm

Cheers

VJ

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Vijayendra Rao

[Former Member]

HI ALL,

THANKS FOR THE REPLY.

CANY ONE BE MORE CLEAR ON QUESTIONS 2 AND 3

2) coming to unicode ,you get the errors when you activate the zobject right, then what is the purpose of uccheck and scov

what is difference between scov and uccheck.

do we have run each and every program through uccheck to check for unicode errors.

3) what is the use of transaction SPAU and spad

can anyone tell me the difference between spau and spad

Thanks

deepthi

[Former Member]

Hi ,

ANY THOUGHTS ON THIS

THANKS