OSS notes

[Former Member]

Hello All,

I am very new to OSS notes. Can some body give me the in and out of the OSS notes.

Thanks

SDN

[ferry_lianto]

Hi,

SAP Notes provide urgent corrections and solutions for smaller problems. To solve smaller problems, there are individual corrections in the form of SAP Notes. SAP Notes can be found in the SAP Service Marketplace at service.sap.com/notes. The SAP Note assistant (transaction SNOTE) is supported for ABAP components of Business Intelligence.

Please check this link for more information on how to use SNOTE.

http://www.sappoint.com/basis/snote.pdf

Hope this will help.

Regards,

Ferry Lianto

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[Former Member]

Hello Ferry,

What do you mean by "corrections" extactly.

Thanks

SDN

[Former Member]

And also please let me know how we would be knowing that a particular note is soultion for a particular problem?

too many questions. What to do I am completely new and I dont find correct ones to refer.

Thanks

SDN

[Former Member]

Hi,

OSS notes are nothing but solutions which SAP suggests for some specific problems . Say you want additional functionality in standard program and you approach SAP for this, if SAP has several requests for the same they will raise an OSS notes which gives the solution to such problems .

Regards,

Varun .

[Former Member]

Hi Varun,

For additional functionality we have customer exits to code for. So coding a customer exist we can achieve the additional functionality i guess. Of course user exists can be considered for modifying the SAP code too. Any you info is sensable

[Former Member]

hi,

OSS notes or SAP Notes (OSS is the old term!) are corrections/fixes found in the SAP service marketplace. A note can range from simple consulting type advice to complex corrections and corrective steps.

There are two ways to connect to the notes search system. They are:

1. The web frontend via your browser at http://service.sap.com/notes

2. The SAPGUI for Windows frontend via transaction OSS1 in your SAP system. [must be preconfigured by your system administrators]

The notes contain instructions and in some cases code corrections. The code can be applied manually via the developer tools or via transaction SNOTE which will try to automatically step you through the application process.

Where the correction is complex and/or not a high priority it maybe that the code is delivered in a Support package and no "advance" code is provided. In this case you have to apply a collection of fixes together at once. This is usually done by your system administrators.

Regards

Ashok P

Message was edited by: Ashok Parupalli

[Former Member]

Ashok,

Does ABAP programmer needs to worry about the code or extact location that the code is going to apply at?.

Thanks

SDN

[Former Member]

What do you mean by "corrections" extactly.

If suppose your SAP standard programs needs some enhancements or correction then we apply OSS notes. Corrections can be defects in Standard programs or enhancements.

how we would be knowing that a particular note is soultion for a particular problem?

You may need to do it manualy at http://service.sap.com/notes. Search with some key terms of your issue like Function module name, or a dump error. You will find different notes and you have to find out the relevant one manualy by seeing the correction instructions in each note.

Does ABAP programmer needs to worry about the code or extact location that the code is going to apply at?.

No. If you apply the oss note through SNOTE. It will automatically takecare.

But there are certain notes which needs a manual correction. In this care the answer is Yes. An abaper needs to follow the instructions in the Note and make the corrections to the SAP standard objects.

Cheers,

Thomas.

[Former Member]

This helped me to grasp some thing. Thanks for the reply.