Schedules for Maintenance Deliveries is moving to SAP for Me

[former_member474314]

The central location on SAP Support Portal where the Schedules for the Support Package Stacks and SAP BusinessObjects Maintenance Deliveries are published for customers will now be transitioning to SAP for Me over the next couple of months.  Communication of planned release dates for SAP's maintenance deliveries (which include patches, support packages, and support package stacks) will now be available in the ’Calendar’ feature in SAP for Me.

What exactly does this mean? and what will change for you?

Through the central SAP for Me ‘Calendar’ in the 'Maintenance deliveries (patches etc.)' section you will now be informed about upcoming release dates for maintenance deliveries. This provides you with a more personalised customisation for the information on your important event dates in a centralized calendar.

 

Clicking the event, you will be able to see further detailed information about the planned delivery in a popover i.e. planned delivery dates.  The 'Product Availability Matrix' link will open a new browser tab/window showing details about the product version mentioned in the popover.

 

You also have the option to add this event to your personal calendar in Outlook by clicking the 'Download ICS' button. (Please be aware that the information contained in this downloaded event is subject to change. Please cross check with SAP for Me to confirm the exact planned release date.)

You can filter by your favourite product(s) to see maintenance events most relevant to you.

 

More features and functionalities in the 'Maintenance deliveries (patches etc.)' event section will expand over time and we will be keeping you updated along the way - so stay tuned!

Kind regards,

Denise Reddy / Finbarr Ryan

SP Stack Strategy Leads

 

Further Resources

SAP for Me User Help

SAP for Me Community

SAP for Me Community Blog

 

[ACE-SAP]

Hi

Thanks for the information.
Not convenient at all.
I hope the 'old' SP schedule document will survive because the SAP Me Calendar is not synthetic enough, no quarterly view, no way to see the SPs for a specific product.

[An_Ton]

Sorry Denise, but the "Calendar" feature is not an improvement, but on the contrary a massive downgrade to the document. Why do so many things have to be made worse in the digital transformation at SAP?
Please keep us the portal "Schedules for Maintenance Deliveries"!

[former_member235396]

Where can we find Ariba, EHSM or other SAP add-ons releases in this calendar based on our customer/product S-user roles assignment?

That maybe could be improvement, instead of searching in the PAM/RIN/Release/Install/Upgrade notes..

To avoid OSS calls, like:
Incident 706161/2022 (P3) - EWM 9.4 SPS17 not available in PAM and Maintenance Planner, but note 2353276 already updated.
Incident 791279/2022 (P3) - SAP ERP-CONCUR INTEGRATION 1.0 SP18 not available in PAM and MP, but note 2298170 already updated and files exists
Incident 780606/2022 (P3) - SAP FIORI FOR SAP S/4HANA 1909 SPS7 not available in PAM, MP and note 2805572, but files already exists.
Incident 531673/2023 (P3) - SAP ERP-CONCUR INTEGRATION 1.0 SP20 not available in PAM and MP, but note 2298170 already updated and files exists
Incident 881372/2023 (P3) - PLVAT 100 - Note 2345524, PAM, Maintenance Planner not in sync + 12 (09/2023) FP not available
Incident 887373/2023 (P3) - SFSF EC INTEGRATION 1210 SPS36 not available in PAM, MP and note 1841471, but SAR files already released
Incident 906738/2023 (P3) - SAP LANDSCAPE TRANSFORMATION 2 SPS25 not available in PAM, MP and note 1577441,1697641 but SAR files already released

SLD CIM/CR content was on latest level since creation of that incident in our case.

Thx

[nachtaktiv]

This is not a useful replacement 😞

Updates/Upgrades are not a ordinary task of "Day/Week/Month"

The update-planning and dependency-checking will be on level Week/Month/Year
with an additional "big-picture" on level Quarter + Year !

[former_member826890]

Dear Denise

Unfortunately, I have to agree with the previous speakers.

This is undoubtedly a step backwards and very confusing.

 

BR

Fabian

[WRoeckelein]

Dear denise.reddy ,

the calendar display of maintenance delliveries also has still some problems. I have S/4HANA onpremise as a favorite product, but when I filter for favorite products only the "SAP S/4HANA 2022 FP01 Maintenance Deli" entry vanishes. Also 2023 has no security patch days anymore, can is this true?

Regards,

Wolfgang

[darrylmg]

Hi denise.reddy

I have the glorious task of managing multiple customer's SAP landscapes.

I don't need a personalised list.  To the contrary, I need one big mahoosive list.

This new proposal is especially tricky for those customers who do not allow an S-user account to be associated with an "external" email domain.   It has made me very sad for this afternoon.  I will need chocolate to get over this.

 

All the best

 

Darryl

[omacoder]

Please add quarter/year view and highlight the entries with a background color 🙂

[Paul1202]

When can we expect the planning for Jan-2023 ?

[kwk]

Hallo,

ich schließe mich meinen Vorrednern an.

Dies ist zweifellos ein Rückschritt. Die "alte" Ansicht ist

einfach übersichtlicher. Außerdem funktioniert die Suche

nicht einwandfrei. Auf jeden Fall nachbessern.

 

Danke und Gruß

Paul

[WRoeckelein]

Hi denise.reddy ,

will security patch days for 2023 be displayed in the calendar?

Regards,

Wolfgang

[former_member474314]

Hi Oliver,

Thank you for your feedback, we are currently working with the SAP for Me development team in enhancing the quarterly view which should also make the search for a specific product easier.

Kind regards,

Denise.

[former_member474314]

Hi Anton,

Thank you for the feedback, unfortunately some of the applications used to generate the Schedules for Maintenance Deliveries reports are out of maintenance and we had no option but to find a new solution.

We will continue to work with the SAP for Me colleagues to make improvements that will result in a successful transformation.

Kind regards,

Denise.

[former_member474314]

Hi Dietmar,

Thank you for your feedback, we are currently working with the SAP for Me development in enhancing the quarterly view.

We will continue to work with the SAP for Me colleagues to make improvements that will result in a successful transformation.

Kind regards,

Denise.

[former_member474314]

Hi Fabian,

Thank you for your feedback, we have taken note of previous speakers’ feedback and will use this feedback to make improvements to the SAP for Me solution.

While we understand your dismay, the SAP for Me solution will continue to improve.

Kind regards,

Denise.

[former_member474314]

Hi Darryl,

Thank you for your feedback, we are currently working with the SAP for Me development team in enhancing the quarterly view which should also make the search for a specific product easier.

The SAP for Me team are working on giving SAP users access to the site, without simulation mode. So going forward I/D-users will be able to login to SAP for Me.

Kind regards,

Denise.

[former_member474314]

Hi Brian,

Thank you for your feedback, we are currently working with the SAP for Me development team in enhancing the quarterly view which should also make the search for a specific product easier.

Kind regards,

Denise.

[former_member474314]

Hi

The planning for January 2023 is currently available on the SAP Support Portal for customers and also in SAP for Me.

Thanks and kind regards,

Denise.

[former_member474314]

Hi Paul,

Thank you for your feedback, we are currently working with the SAP for Me development team in enhancing the quarterly view which should also make the search for a specific product easier.

We will continue to look for enhancements to make the experience better for you and your colleagues.

Kind regards,

Denise.

 

[nayberg]

Hi.

 

The daily and the monthly views are no good as you get "x More" on the busy days/weeks. In real  life this is unusable. I fear a quarterly view would be even worse in this regard.

The weekly view however displays all entries even in the busy weeks so if you expanded the weekly view to be able to display multiple weeks we could get a nice overview.

 

Regards.

John.

[kevin_gibson-sik]

Hello,

The Day and Month view does not show what Day or Month it is displaying?  The Week view does.  For a patching calendar we absolutely need a larger view (quarterly, yearly) as stated before.  I think having it personalized should be an option (checkbox?) but there should be a mode to display "ALL" and then let us filter on a keyword like "Netweaver" to avoid an overload of entries if we want.

 

Thanks,

Kevin

[former_member5924]

Hi denise.reddy,

wish you a happy new year!

Is there already a new status about the new maintenance calendar in SAP for me? I don´t see any dates in my calendar in SAP for me?

Thanks & Regards,
Manuel

[RoFi]

Hi Manuel,

Checked today after my holiday and can see the dates in the calender (for example 20. - 24.02 FPS1 for S/4HANA2022 will be released).

 

br,

Robert

[former_member5924]

Hi Robert,

thanks! I´ve just seen right above in the calender there´s an item with an authorization error. Maybe that´s the problem that nothing will be displayed here.

BR, Manuel

[thomas_grzinger]

HY, I do not see anything in this Calender. It is complete EMPTY!  We also need a list to have a overview containing the whole year to plan our installation dates.

Thank you.

Thomas

[uta_hedemann]

a) Besides the bug with not shown month, when selecting month  and scrolling from TODAY to  the next months, some products seems to be missing, i.e. Data Services 
Short Presentation Title (sap.com)

In former times "SAP data Services" was part of the  SBOPschedule_SIRIUS (sap.com)but there is seems to be disappeared, too

Screenshot from SAP Data Services Schedule in 2022

b) Like other comments already mentioned,it should be possible to have an overview of  the whole year  or a specific timeframe as  in the PDF version before SAP for ME to better plan upgrade projects etc without  scrolling though the months...
c) What means favorite products /nur favorisierte Produkte:  Can I maintain "my customer-specific favorites" or are generally  often used favorites like S/4 HANA meant?  Is a categorization similar to    Schedules for Maintenance Deliveries (sap.com)
planned in the SAP for ME version?

[former_member295659]

Hi Thomas,

Thank you for your feedback. Currently anonymous and basic access is being developed where S-user access will no longer be required. Until this solution is ready, the Schedules for Maintenance delivery will still be available on the portal.

Kind Regards

Finbarr

[former_member474314]

Hi John,

Thank you for your feedback, we are currently working with the SAP for Me development in enhancing the quarterly view.

We will continue to work with the SAP for Me colleagues to make improvements that will result in a successful transformation.

Kind regards,

Denise.

[former_member474314]

Hi Kevin,

Thank you for your feedback, we are currently working with the SAP for Me development in enhancing the quarterly view which should also make the search for a specific product easier.

We will continue to look for enhancements to make the experience better for you and your colleagues.

Kind regards,

Denise.

[former_member474314]

Hi Manuel,

Thank you for your feedback. Currently anonymous and basic access is being developed where S-user access will no longer be required. Until this solution is ready, the Schedules for Maintenance delivery will still be available on the portal.

Kind Regards,

Denise.

[cgpark]

I have to agree with all the other posts on this blog. The new release calendar sucks. Definitely no improvement.

 

[martin_strobel]

I also agree: the new calendar is not an improvement.

It currently silently produces an 403 Access denied error in the background.

 

 

Also: Please make the automatic language detection configurable.

I always want to read the native language notes version, if they are written in english or german.

extra clicks and another page reload, which can take a while, if launchpad / me.sap.com is slow again, is not optimal for work efficiency.

[former_member295659]

Hi Uta,

Thank you, the month not showing has been highlighted and the issue should be resolved shortly.

a)   In regard to Data Services, I have forwarded your request to the relevant stakeholder.

b)   We are working on a solution for a quarterly view that will allow the user to scroll through each      quarter to find the product that they are looking for. Until that enhancement is made available, we will keep the pdf available from its usual location.

c)   Favourites is personal to you. You can select your favourite products in “Portfolio and Products” by clicking on the star. When you go to the calendar and tick “Favourite Products only”  you will only see the products that you selected.

Thanks you for the feedback, once I have more information I will forward you the details.

Finbarr

[pthomas464]

When using the calendar function by month the actual month name is not shown in the top left (as in the example screenshot which shows "March 2022"). Also advancing the month still does not show the month/year so must be a bug in your pre-release.

Agree with all other comments that i would need a quarter / year option which should then enable the drilldown to the specific entry in detail.

Am also seeing that today you announce by "wk" so you will now commit to a "day" ?

Could be made to be useful if if includes everything and more, with filters, zoom up and down, etc.

[mbosch]

Hello,

 

I must agree with the previous comments. This would need more enhancement before dropping the old overview pdf (lack of overview, much scrolling, and missing month/date indicator and slowness of SAP for me in general).

Next to that why in a separate file/calendar. Would be more easy to incorporate this into PAM where already is an overview of the released SPS. And add a few lines with the known planned dates for the upcoming support package stacks for the product.

 

Kind regards, Marco

[former_member295659]

Hi Paul,

Thank you for the feedback. We are aware of the issue in regards to the “month” not showing and development hope to have it fixed shortly.

We are working on a solution for a quarterly view that will allow the user to scroll through each quarter to find the product that they are looking for. Until that enhancement is made available, we will keep the pdf available from its usual location here.

We have received feedback from various stakeholders and the majority prefer to announce by the week, instead of a specific day, however we will continue to get feedback in case this changes.

We will continue to make improvements to Schedules for maintenance deliveries in SAP for Me and will record any feedback we get to make these improvements.

Kind Regards

Finbarr

[former_member295659]

Hello Marco

Thank you for the feedback,

We are working on a solution for a quarterly view that will allow the user to scroll through each quarter to find the product that they are looking for. Until that enhancement and others are made available, we will keep the pdf available from its usual location here.

We will forward your feedback on the PAM to the relevant colleagues.

Kind Regards

Finbarr

[tony_swietochowski3]

Most people start with:

1. Software Component


2. A view of the patch releases for the whole year - like a schedule.

This is what the PDF has.

But in this new calendar,  I can only see month by month. There's no yearly view. Also, the magnifying glass button is not a search button, but a filter. If I click on it, it does not take me to the entry. It just filters out the software component. Therefore the icon is misleading. It should be a funnel icon, not a magnifying glass icon. So despite keying in the software I need, I still need to scroll month by month until I find something.

Sorry but it's a thumbs down from me.

 

Regards,

Tony.

[RoFi]

Hello Denise,

 

which authorization does a user need to have calender function available?

 

thanks and br,

Robert

 

[former_member474314]

Hi Robert,

 

Please see relevant information in https://support.sap.com/content/s4m/help/access.html

 

Thanks and kind regards,

Denise.

[RoFi]

Hi Denise,

Thank you - but the authorizations to see the calender is not mentioned in the documentations.

Thanks and br,

Robert

 

[MatthiasL]

This hasn't been working since a couple of weeks (since the move from Launchpad to Me, I reckon). The maintenance filter is showing empty. I've also submitted a incident for this.

[CLOEFFLER]

Hi,

it seems, that this is still as stupid as it was one year before -- I can see no progress at all.

My calendar does not show one entry, the update speed is bad beyond belief.

There's still no possibility to get an "overview" for all the year and all products.

Guys, I do hope that the PDF will stay ...

[nachtaktiv]

can confirm 😞
every few weeks I give it a try, but I'm always disappointed

[former_member146701]

Hello,

the calendar is desperately empty and so useless.  Fortunately, the pdf is still available

[adu0]

Why not remove the hint in the good old PDF:

"This PDF will no longer be available from early 2023 on-wards with the move to SAP for ME. Click here for more info."
"SAP for ME Calendar is currently under maintenance"

The removal of the hint would be very beneficial for the health of each new visitor, since a sudden spike in blood pressure would be avoided.

Stay healthy,

Axel.

 

[andreas_benesch]

SAP listens to its customers.

The note has been removed, but not quite as desired:

before:
"This PDF will no longer be available from early 2023 on-wards with the move to SAP for ME."

after:
"This PDF will no longer be available from late 2023 on-wards with the move to "SAP for Me".

No further comment...

[martin_strobel]

Well,

 

maybe they could build a PDF-Export for the full year for the new calendar.

That would be disappointing, but better than nothing

[Steve_S]

Hello, I have Selected my Favorites in "Portfolio and Products" and when I select Favorites in the Calendar nothing shows.

Can anyone help?

PS. Not to continue the tongue-lashing, but this not an improvement. Does the favorites work for anyone who is building/testing this?

[pmuschick]

I cannot find the release dates for S/4HANA 2023 FPS2. Is there any resource available to find this? the calendar in SAP for Me is not helpful...