Oss - could you please help me

Former Member · ‎2006 Nov 20

I have oss userid and pass word.

I have been told to apply support pack in my 4.7 SAP system.

How to do that ?

I have a problem in Script in 4.7.

I need to apply support pack for italy chages.

Could you please explain me , how and why.

I am new to this oss.

Former Member · ‎2006 Nov 20

HI Sam,

Search with that OSS Number in https://websmp110.sap-ag.de/~SAPIDP/002006825000000234912001E with a username and password and apply the correction instruction of that ..

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]

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

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,

Santosh

Former Member · ‎2006 Nov 20

Take a look at SNOTE transaction to apply a OSS note.

Regards,

Ravi

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Former Member · ‎2006 Nov 20

check this way...

How to apply OSS notes to my R/3 system?

In order to fix one of the problem in R/3 system, SAP will asked you to download an OSS notes which is a ".car" file.

To work with a CAR File do the following at OS Level:

Get into OS as <sapsid>adm

Copy the .CAR file to a Temporary Directory.

Uncompress the file with SAPCAR

Copy the the data file generated in the data transport directory

( ej: = /usr/Sap/trans/data).

Copy the the cofile file generated in the cofiles transport directory

( = ej: /usr/Sap/trans/cofiles).

Run transaction STMS

Upload the support package with SPAM transaction and the support package will show "New support packages".

Examples of CAR command :-

1) UNIX only:

Log on as user <sapsid>adm.

cd /usr/sap/trans

CAR -xvf tmp/<ARCHIVE_NAME>.CAR -V

2) Windows NT only:

Log on as user <SAPSID>ADM.

cd \USR\SAP\TRANS

CAR -xvf TMP\<ARCHIVE_NAME>.CAR

This Will create two(2) FILES

After you run SPAM you MUST run STMS and check the transport queues

As per 315963 note you can direct made the changes in the program or you can apply the support pack.

a) If you want to apply correction then first you need to register the object in SAP, so that you will get the Access key and then you can make the changes.

b) If you want to import the support pack then you need to down load from SAP market-place. and this is in CAR file. and then you need extract the same using CAR utility.

ex: CAR -xvf abc.car

or

you can directly apply the patch from SAPGUI, login to 000 client and then you can load the patch from Presentation server.

Also check what is your current basis patch level?

For example if you want to apply patch 07 and you are having 05 then you need to apply 06 and then apply 07.

Things to take note of:-

It would definitely be better to apply the latest spam/saint spam manager, tp, R3trans and possibly a new kernel patch.

This is not a simple task to complete on the fly. By applying SAP support packs, you may run into problems with SPDD and SPAU adjustments. Also include the fact that the support packages may break one of your transactions. You may want to test this in your sandbox environment, if you have one, before tackling it.

In most situation when you apply support packages, it can takes about 3 weeks to fully test the support packages before you can apply them to the production system.

Do test your "golden" transactions to make sure that they are not broken. If you are not familiar with SPDD and/or SPAU adjustments than do not attempt to load support packages.

You may be better off just to modify the SAP object in question via OSS note.

Former Member · ‎2006 Nov 20

Applying support packs is normally done by Basis. If you have a single problem solved by an OSS note, then you normally just have to apply that (and perhaps related) notes. Transaction SNOTE is good at handling this.

Rob

Former Member · ‎2006 Nov 20

Could you please explain what is oss and the procedure to appy it ?

Former Member · ‎2006 Nov 20

Hi Sam,

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]

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

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,

Santosh