regarding OSS

[Former Member]

what is OSS(ONLINE SUPPRT SYSTEM)?wht is the purpose of it

[Former Member]

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

Searching for an SAP Note:

http://service.sap.com/notes You would need OSS ID and Password

1. Select one of the following criteria for the SAP Note:

- Note Number

- Application component

- Processing status

- Implementation Status

- Processor

2. Choose whether you want to

- Limit the selection to certain software components and their releases

- Sort the SAP Notes according to their number or to their corresponding application component

3. Confirm the selection.

SAP Note Download:

1. In the Note Assistant, choose SAP Note Download.

2. Specify the numbers of the SAP Notes that you want to download.

Use the selection function to load one SAP Note or a list of SAP Notes.

3. Confirm your selection.

The system loads the SAP Notes from SAPNet – R/3 Frontend into your database.

SAP Note Upload:

1. Select the correct SAP Note in the SAP Service Marketplace under service.sap.com/notes.

2. Choose Download.

The SAP Note is added to your download basket. You can repeat this action for as many SAP Notes as you require.

3. To save the SAP Notes locally on your PC, start the SAP Download Manager. Choose Download.

The SAP Notes are loaded as files into the directory you have specified.

4. Use the upload function in the Note Assistant (Goto -> Upload SAP Note) to load the SAP Note files into your system.

<b><u>Check the following links.</u></b>www.service.sap.com

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/fe8dbb80-0c01-0010-fe84-b76...

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/64/52d651ac492749b7152609b001c81d/frameset.htm

You would a S-user id to logon to the OSS Notes. The S-user id is basically based on the installation number of your SAP system. You can get the user id from your BASIS. Once you get this then logon to this link:

http://service.sap.com/notes.

Check this:

Also check this document. It has the step by step procedures with screenshots to apply a Note.

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

https://websmp109.sap-ag.de

<b>Reward if useful.</b>

[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.

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

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

Regards,

Omkar.

[Former Member]

Hi

there are lotz of threads on OSS in SDN...

Please check that..

[Former Member]

Hi

OSS notes are the notes which are provided by SAP officially. If they found some bug or if they want to give some more information regarding the products they issue an OSS note.

You must need a SAP Martket place id to access the OSS notes.

When a new business scanerio comes up due to the legal requiement which SAP currently does not handle, it will issue an OSS notes.

If OSS notes contains the code correction, you can use th SNOTE to upload the OSS note to respective objects.

to FIND

Goto transaction SNOTE.

Now select the menu option Goto->Note Browser.

Now give the OSS note number and execute.

If it is implemented in the system, it will give you the details.

Otherwise, it will inform "Unable to find SAP Note that meets specific criteria".

SNOTE- SAP NOTE ASSISTANT,

Description

The Note Assistant (transaction SNOTE) helps you to implement SAP OSS notes. Although it

is not perfect it does generally make the application of OSS notes a much easier process. Note

assistant is at its best when all that is required is a simple code deletion/insertion into an existing

ABAP object. If the object does not exists then you will be required to do the creation bit manually,

note assistant will then be able to insert the ABAP code.

Another benefit of SAP note assistant is that it automatically prompts you to implement any

prerequisite notes that apply.

Note assistants biggest problem comes when updates have been provided by SAP but not for

general release (i.e. a specific fix for your company) or you have modified standard SAP code. If

note assistant tries to update an object which has been changed using this method then it

may have trouble inserting the code in the correct place.

go through this link

http://www.sapdevelopment.co.uk/tips/tips_snote.htm

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/b8/3cf839fd35384de10000000a11402f/content.htm

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

[Former Member]

Hi,

cehck the below links

http://www.sap-img.com/basis/manually-applying-the-oss-note.htm

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Applications/SAP/Q_20861605.html

Reward if helpful.

Regards,