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SAP ECC 6.0 with NetWeaver 7.0 actively controls the administrative and operational environment to increase the efficiency and profitability thus helps in attaining new heights of business processes and technology integration while laying a concrete foundation of incremental evolution of the solution. The enhancement packages (EHP) are introduced to simplify the management and deployment of new software functionalities.
Author: Gunjan Yaduwanshi
Company: Deloitte
Created on: 25 April 2011
Author Bio
Gunjan Yaduwanshi is working at Deloitte Company.
Experience –SAP Basis Consultant with 22 months of experience. Apart from SAP Basis, also have experience in ECC Security and HR Security.
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Important OSS Notes: ......................................................................................................................................... 3
Starting the EHPI ................................................................................................................................................ 6
Errors and their resolution ................................................................................................................................ 25
Related Content ................................................................................................................................................ 30
Disclaimer and Liability Notice .......................................................................................................................... 31
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A Solution Manager system is required to complete the EHP4 upgrade.
Maintenance Optimizer (MOPZ) must be configured in Solution Manager before starting the EHP4 upgrade. OSS Notes 1134872 and 1233954 must be applied in Solution Manager.
The ST & ST-ICO components of Solution Manager must be at level SP19 or above (See note 1165437 for the latest information).
The ERP Server on which EHP4 is installed should have at least 8GB of memory.
The system is 64-bit and SAP‟s Enhancement Pack Installer will be used for the upgrade.
A large amount of free disk space should be available to accommodate a shadow instance and other temporary files which are created during the upgrade. This amount will vary depending upon initial database size, operating system/database platform, number of developments, and number of support packs/add-ons to be included in the upgrade. The ERP system used for testing this guide required 110 GB free space to complete the upgrade.
The disk or partition where the SAP\EHPI directory will reside has 10-15 GB free space.
The ERP system is at patch SP12 or higher.
The Database has been patched to the latest level.
TP.EXE and R3TRANS.EXE are patched to latest level.
SPAM has been patched to level 34 or higher.
Important OSS Notes:
Note # Note Title
1245473 Add Info. Enhancement Package Installer
1161052 Add Info. SAPehpi for Systems on Oracle
1165438 Enhancement Package 4 for SAP ERP : Required SWC
1122966 Maintenance Optimizer: Notes for Enhancement Packages
485741 Handling customer translations in the upgrade
195157 Application logs - Deletion of logs
211077 Exchanging Target release kernel during upgrade
62519 Correction locks do not belong to system
1143022 SAP up Key word
1275873 Memory bottleneck during DDIC activation during EHP import
1134872 Maintenance Optimizer: FAQ for Stack Delta Files
1233954 MOPZ: No XML Generated in EPS Inbox
1122966 Maintenance Optimizer Notes for Enhancement Packages
1139493 Information about maintenance of Enhancement Package systems
1161733 SQL Server SAP EHPI for SAP Netweaver 7.0-7.1-Based Systems
1165437 Enhancement package 4 for SAP ERP - Required support packages
1156968 Add info on upgrading to EHP 4 for SAP ERP 6.0 ABAP
1165067 Release Info SAP Enhancement Package 4 for SAP ERP 6.0
1064635 SAP ERP Enhancement Packages: SP Stacks Release Info Note
1160106 Enhancement package 4 for SAP ERP: Installing JAVA
1321756 Mass activation: Object activated instead of deleted
1263115 Technical settings cannot be activated
1262124 Vendor Keys for Add-ons released with ERP Enhancement Packages.
Initial Preparation
Download Enhancement Pack 4 files from SAP Service Marketplace. 1. Go to http://service.sap.com/swdc -> Download -> Installations and Upgrades -> Entry by Application
Group -> SAP Application Components -> SAP ERP -> SAP ERP Enhance Package -> EHP4 for SAP ERP6.0 / NW7.01 --> Installation and Upgrade
2. Download the 51033594 multispanning archives and extract the files. See note 886335 for information on multispanning archives.
3. Download the EHP4 patches from http://service.sap.com --> Download --> Support Packages and Patches --> Entry by Application Group -> SAP Application Components -> SAP ERP -> SAP ERP Enhance Package -> EHP4 FOR SAP ERP6.0 / NW7.01 --> Select the technical uses for which EHP4 updates will be applied and download the .sar files.
4. Validate the system in Solution Manager System.
Generating Stack file (.xml file)
1. Log into the Solution Manager system 2. Execute transaction SOLUTION_MANAGER 3. Select the System Solution 4. In the left frame select Operations 5. In the right frame select tab Change Management 6. Select Maintenance Optimizer 7. Click on Create New Maintenance Transaction
8. Click on Save 9. Select the Product Version and the system then click on Continue 10. Select Calculate Files Automatically and then Continue 11. Select Enhancement Package Installation and then click on the Find Download Files button 12. Select Target Configuration
13. After you have selected the Product Version, Target Stack, Add on, OS/DB-Dependent Files,
Independent Files, and Techincal Uses click on the Find Download Files for the stack version button
14. Once the calculation has finished you are prompted to select the kernel that you want yo use. Select
the relative kernel files for your operating system and database and then click Continue 15. Select any stack independent files if there are any and then click Continue 16. MOPZ now displays the results for the stack calculation from the SAP Service Marketplace. Be
careful to not deselect any software component that is necessary for EHP4. Click on Continue 17. Chose the download type and then click on Select Download Type
18. You will receive a confirmation that the files have been added to your Download Basket, click
Continue 19. Confirm the files in your Download Basket by clicking on the Confirm Files in Download Basket
button 20. Select all files by click on the check box next to the word File at the top of the list. Click on the
Confirm Download button 21. You will be returned to the previous screen, click on Continue
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22. The stack files now need be downloaded using the SAP Download Manager. Once the download has completed the files need to be copied to a directory on the ERP system. The files do not need to be un-carred.
Note – Download the .txt version for the Stack information file as well, and make sure that the packages mentioned in the Stack files to be upgraded are available on the server, to avoid errors.
Upgrade - EHP Installer
1. Download Enhancement Package Installer to the ERP system. a. Go to http://service.sap.com/swdc --> Download --> Support Packages and Patches --> Entry by Application Group --> Additional Components --> Upgrade tools --> SAP EHP Installer; select the appropriate version and platform, then download the .sar file.
b. Unpack the file on a disk/partition with 10-15 GB free space. An „EHPI‟ folder is created. 2. Download jce_policy 1.4.2 from http://java.sun.com and save on the ERP system.
Starting the EHPI
1. Go to folder '<drive>:\EHPI'. 2. Execute the following command from the operating system command prompt: 3. STARTUP jce_policy_zip=<path of jce policy file> 4. Once the controller is started, execute the following command.
a. Go to directory EHPI\sdt\exe b. Execute the command DSUGui.bat
14. The “Checks” Phase will check if all the patches and software are present as per the stack information file. Once this phase is completed, click “Next” for the next phase
15. In the next phase “Preprocessing” a Shadow system is installed. For this phase, lock the
development environment when prompted during this phase. Ensure all change requests (transports) have been released before starting this phase. Ensure enough disk space exists to create a shadow instance.
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19. Once the backup is successfully taken at this stage select “Backup completed” and click “Continue”. This backup is important as during the downtime, when a shadow instance will be created, if anything goes wrong the system will not come up. Hence we can bring back the system by restoring the backup taken during this phase.
20. Click “Next” on the next screen
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21. In the next phase “Downtime”, the main ABAP instance is shut down and EHP4 components are switched from the shadow instance to main instance. Ensure database logging or
archive mode is off before starting this phase.
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23. Post Processing - During this phase, Modification adjustments are completed (by ABAP person as Basis is not responsible for this). If the system has unmodified objects, then
transactions SPAU and SPDD are executed to adjust the modifications.
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Resolution – Download the mentioned prerequisite as per the log file and restert the phase from the beginning. For this and all similer error, plese follow the same step.
To avoid this error, make sure, you have all the packages and their prerequisite at EPS/in before starting the upgrade
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2. Now you should be able to logon into the system with a user different from DDIC.
3. Apply the note's changes manually. Please take into account the note's prerequisites' corrections from note 1467470 have to be applied also.
4. Lock the system with the following commands: tp locksys <SAPSID> pf=D:\usr\sap\trans\bin\TP_DOMAIN_ECS.PFL tp lock_eu <SAPSID> pf=<transport profile> D:\usr\sap\trans\bin\TP_DOMAIN_ECS.PFL
5. Repeat the failing phase.
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Error - During the downtime, continue monitoring the DB space, because due to space constraint the upgrade might get stuck at one particular phase without giving any error message
Resolution – To free some space, you can shrink the DB
1. Go to SQL Server Management Studio –> ECS-Task –> Srink –> Database
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