Upgrading SAP
The Comprehensive Guide
1st Edition
Published on 9. February 2015
Book
Hardback
572 pages
978-1-4932-1015-2 (ISBN)
Description
There's more to upgrading your SAP system than just pressing a button. Here's the next-best thing: a comprehensive guide to the upgrade process. You'll understand project planning and processes, how to use upgrade tools in ABAP and Java systems, and how to upgrade individual products like SAP Solution Manager, SAP BW, SAP CRM, SAP Enterprise Portal, SAP PI and SAP PO, and more. Finally, everything you need to perform successful SAP upgrades!
In this book, you'll learn about:
Project Planning
Don't embark on your upgrade journey unprepared. Understand how to plan for the project, and get to know the system architecture, upgrade tools, and strategies that you'll need to be successful.
Upgrade Processes
Find the steps you'll need to upgrade Java and ABAP systems, modify SAP objects, and learn how to use the right tools for these processes.
Upgrading SAP Components
Each SAP component has a unique flavor. Get what you need to upgrade each of the major components, including SAP BW, SAP CRM, SAP Enterprise Portal, SAP Process Integration, and more.
Highlights:
Project planning
Technical planning
ABAP and Java upgrades
SAP Enterprise Portal
SAP Process Orchestration
SAP BusinessObjects BI
Upgrade process and preparation
Upgrade tools
Modifying SAP objects
SAP ERP, SAP CRM, SAP SCM, SAP BW
Enhancement packages
In this book, you'll learn about:
Project Planning
Don't embark on your upgrade journey unprepared. Understand how to plan for the project, and get to know the system architecture, upgrade tools, and strategies that you'll need to be successful.
Upgrade Processes
Find the steps you'll need to upgrade Java and ABAP systems, modify SAP objects, and learn how to use the right tools for these processes.
Upgrading SAP Components
Each SAP component has a unique flavor. Get what you need to upgrade each of the major components, including SAP BW, SAP CRM, SAP Enterprise Portal, SAP Process Integration, and more.
Highlights:
Project planning
Technical planning
ABAP and Java upgrades
SAP Enterprise Portal
SAP Process Orchestration
SAP BusinessObjects BI
Upgrade process and preparation
Upgrade tools
Modifying SAP objects
SAP ERP, SAP CRM, SAP SCM, SAP BW
Enhancement packages
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Persons
Author
Mark Mergaerts is Principal Technology Consultant at SAP Belgium and has more than ten years experience with SAP Basis. His consulting activities, mainly with large SAP accounts, concentrate on the key areas of system administration, database management, upgrades and installations, performance and workload analysis, and OS/DB migrations. He also teaches advanced database administration and SAP performance classes to an international audience.
Bert Vanstechelman works as an independent SAP Basis Consultant and has approximately ten years of SAP experience. His most recent long-term assignments have been in SAP Basis Consulting roles running all kinds of SAP versions in combination with all possible databases and operating systems supported by SAP. Bert specializes in SAP hardware infrastructures, high availability, SAP installations, release upgrades, BW and SCM from a technical point of view and OS/DB migrations. Bert is a frequent contributor to the SAP Professional Journal and panel expert for SAP release upgrades and OS/DB migrations on SearchSAP.com's "ask the expert" feature.
Content
... Acknowledgments ... 19
... Introduction ... 21
1 ... Project Planning ... 27
1.1 ... Why Upgrade? ... 27
1.2 ... Estimating the Effort ... 30
1.3 ... Pre-Upgrade Considerations ... 42
1.4 ... Factors Influencing the Complexity of an Upgrade ... 43
1.5 ... The Project Team ... 65
1.6 ... The SAP Upgrade Project: Steps ... 71
1.7 ... Outlining the Upgrade Plan ... 74
1.8 ... The Testing Phase ... 81
1.9 ... SAP Solution Manager and the SAP Upgrade Roadmap ... 88
1.10 ... Summary ... 89
2 ... Technical Information and Planning ... 91
2.1 ... The SAP NetWeaver Architecture ... 91
2.2 ... An Overview of SAP ERP and SAP Releases ... 95
2.3 ... The System Switch Upgrade ... 102
2.4 ... Upgrade Strategy and Runtime ... 104
2.5 ... Database-Specific Aspects ... 107
2.6 ... The SAP Landscape during the Upgrade ... 109
2.7 ... Upgrading the Frontend Software ... 116
2.8 ... The Application-Specific Upgrade Toolbox ... 116
2.9 ... Upgrade of Dual-Stack Systems ... 117
2.10 ... Upgrades in an MCOD System Landscape ... 122
2.11 ... Summary ... 124
3 ... Preparing for the Technical Upgrade ... 125
3.1 ... Upgrade Documentation ... 126
3.2 ... Upgrade Services ... 137
3.3 ... Hardware and Software Requirements ... 141
3.4 ... The Upgrade Directory ... 149
3.5 ... The Upgrade Media ... 154
3.6 ... Support and Enhancement Packages ... 158
3.7 ... The Download Directory ... 165
3.8 ... Summary ... 166
4 ... A Guided Tour of the Upgrade Tools ... 167
4.1 ... Obtaining the SUM ... 168
4.2 ... Setting up the SUM ... 175
4.3 ... Using the SUM ... 193
4.4 ... Special Features of the SUM ... 200
4.5 ... Summary ... 204
5 ... Upgrading the ABAP System ... 205
5.1 ... Planning the ABAP Upgrade ... 207
5.2 ... ABAP Upgrade Timeline ... 209
5.3 ... The Shadow Repository and Shadow Instance ... 220
5.4 ... The ABAP Upgrade Directory ... 220
5.5 ... SAPup ... 223
5.6 ... Starting the ABAP Upgrade ... 228
5.7 ... Initialization Roadmap Step ... 232
5.8 ... Extraction Roadmap Step ... 239
5.9 ... Configuration Roadmap Step ... 244
5.10 ... Checks Roadmap Step ... 259
5.11 ... Preprocessing Roadmap Step ... 263
5.12 ... Execution Roadmap Step ... 291
5.13 ... Postprocessing and Finalization Roadmap Steps ... 299
5.14 ... Upgrade Postprocessing Activities for ABAP ... 306
5.15 ... After the Upgrade ... 320
5.16 ... Troubleshooting ... 320
5.17 ... Summary ... 325
6 ... Upgrading the Java System ... 327
6.1 ... Planning and Preparation ... 328
6.2 ... Starting the Upgrade ... 333
6.3 ... Upgrade Process ... 334
6.4 ... Postprocessing ... 362
6.5 ... Summary ... 363
7 ... Modification Adjustment ... 365
7.1 ... Modification Adjustment Transactions ... 365
7.2 ... Run Transaction SPDD ... 367
7.3 ... The SPDD Object List ... 370
7.4 ... How to Handle Modifications ... 376
7.5 ... Post-Modification Steps ... 386
7.6 ... Modification Adjustment with SPAU and SPAU_ENH ... 387
7.7 ... Summary ... 388
8 ... Upgrading SAP Business Warehouse ... 389
8.1 ... Software Components ... 390
8.2 ... SAP Business Warehouse Architecture ... 391
8.3 ... Specific Upgrade Tasks for SAP BW ... 392
8.4 ... The Preparation and Upgrade Process for SAP Business Warehouse ... 406
8.4.2 ... During the Upgrade ... 408
8.5 ... Upgrade Postprocessing for SAP Business Warehouse ... 409
8.6 ... Summary ... 412
9 ... Upgrading SAP SCM ... 413
9.1 ... SAP APO Components ... 414
9.2 ... SAP SCM Architecture ... 416
9.3 ... Dependencies between SAP SCM and Backend Systems ... 419
9.4 ... Functional Aspects during the Technical Upgrade ... 420
9.5 ... Technical Upgrade Preparation, Documentation, and Media ... 421
9.6 ... The Technical Upgrade Process for SAP SCM ... 423
9.7 ... /SAPAPO/OM_LC_UPGRADE_70 Section A ... 427
9.8 ... Entering Downtime ... 431
9.9 ... /SAPAPO/OM_LC_UPGRADE_70 Section B ... 431
9.10 ... Upgrade Downtime Phases ... 433
9.11 ... liveCache Upgrade ... 434
9.12 ... Optimizer Upgrade ... 441
9.13 ... /SAPAPO/OM_LC_UPGRADE_70 Section C ... 445
9.14 ... Final Upgrade Phases ... 448
9.15 ... Prepare for Return to Production ... 448
9.16 ... /SAPAPO/OM_LC_UPGRADE_70 Section D ... 449
9.17 ... Summary ... 449
10 ... Upgrading SAP CRM ... 451
10.1 ... SAP CRM Architecture ... 451
10.2 ... SAP CRM Specific Tasks ... 455
10.3 ... The Preparation and Upgrade Process for SAP CRM ... 457
10.4 ... Upgrade Postprocessing for SAP CRM ... 462
10.5 ... Upgrading SAP CRM Mobile Client Components ... 467
10.6 ... Summary ... 468
11 ... Upgrading SAP SRM ... 469
11.1 ... SAP SRM Architecture ... 469
11.2 ... Specific Tasks for SAP SRM ... 473
11.3 ... Summary ... 483
12 ... Upgrading the SAP Enterprise Portal ... 485
12.1 ... SAP Enterprise Portal Architecture ... 485
12.2 ... SAP Enterprise Portal Upgrade Approach ... 490
12.3 ... Upgrade Preparation and Process ... 492
12.4 ... Upgrade Postprocessing for the SAP Enterprise Portal ... 495
12.5 ... Summary ... 496
13 ... Upgrading SAP Process Integration and SAP Process Orchestration ... 497
13.1 ... SAP Process Integration versus SAP Process Orchestration ... 498
13.2 ... In-Place Upgrade versus Side-by-Side Migration ... 500
13.3 ... Side-by-Side Deployment ... 504
13.4 ... In-Place Upgrade ... 507
13.5 ... Summary ... 513
14 ... Upgrading SAP Solution Manager ... 515
14.1 ... SAP Solution Manager 7.1 Infrastructure ... 516
14.2 ... Upgrade Approach ... 518
14.3 ... The Preparation and Upgrade Process for SAP Solution Manager ... 523
14.4 ... Post-Upgrade Activities ... 530
14.5 ... Summary ... 532
... Appendices ... 533
A ... SAP Releases and Upgrade Paths ... 535
A.1 ... SAP NetWeaver and SAP Basis Releases ... 535
A.2 ... SAP ERP Releases ... 537
B ... Database Transaction Log Modes ... 541
C ... SAP Notes ... 543
D ... References ... 549
D.1 ... SAP Service Marketplace ... 549
D.2 ... SAP Installation and Documentation Manuals ... 549
D.3 ... SAP NetWeaver How-To Guides ... 551
E ... SAP NetWeaver Search and Classification (TREX) ... 553
F ... Single Code Pages ... 555
G ... The Authors ... 557
... Index ... 559