SAP Kernel Upgrade

[#1]

Dear all,

Please guide to upgrade SAP Kernel 111 to nnn.

Q. 1> What are the critaria? to select patch level? I mean to say that Can I upgrade Kernel level 111 to 146/ 176 directly while kernel level 133 is available?

Q. 2.> There are following types of SAP kernels:

I. SAP KERNEL 7.0

i. Database Independent

ii. DB2/UDB

iii. Oracle

II. SAP KERNEL 7.0 Unicode

i. Database Independent

ii. DB2/UDB

iii. Oracle

Ques>

Which Tree should I follow SAP KERNEL 7.0 or SAP KERNEL 7.0 Unicode?

Which type of kernels will be down loaded Database Independent or ANY DB Dependent (Note: SAPEXE.......sar SAPEXEDB.......sar)

Directory Scenario:

In my Solution Manager /usr/sap/SID/SYS/exe/uc/ntamd/*

In Developement System /usr/sap/SID/SYS/exe/run/*

/usr/sap/SID/SYS/exe/uc/hpia64/but no files are here.

Last Ques: What type kernel will be downloaded and on which location it will be copied???

Regards

Dharmendra

[Former Member]

Hi

I suggest you may have a look at sap note [19466 - Downloading SAP kernel patches|https://service.sap.com/sap/bc/bsp/spn/sapnotes/index2.htm?numm=19466]

Regards Michael