A place to maintain planned downtime

Hi all, are there any SAP standard functionality to maintain planned downtime? In Solution Manager? Another central place in the SAP landscape?
Users should be able to see when the system will be unavailable, and get warnings or messages before the system is down. Do I have to create a table and abap programs/function modules for this?
I need a place for external and internal partners to look up and check when the system will be down.

Hi Rune,
This is a standard BASIS activity. Contact your BASIS team to do it T. Code SM02.
Regards,
Pranav.

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hi,
is there any way to manage the fixed recurring planned down time in APO???
we can manage it in APO-Resource, other than this, how can we manage it.
secondly, is there any way to maintain source of supply every month???
source of supply, means replenish from one plant to another plant. so receiving plant can change source of supply every month? is it possible in APO or ECC!!
Thanks,
Regards,
Jignesh.

Hey Jignesh,
as an answer to the first part of your question:
you can model it either by
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- using copy and paste downtimes (ugly)
- creating maintenance plans (which is I assume exactly what you are looking for)
But watch out.... orders react differently to different types of downtimes.
If an order reaches a planned downtime created by option 2 or 3 it's automatically rescheduled at the end of the downtime, whereas with capacity variants the order keeps going on!
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I am getting below error while trying to create new maintainance plan in SQL 2008 R2, by right click on "New Maintainance plan"...could you please help on this...
I have tried to register DTS.dll but after that also error is coming...
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Hi,
According to the description, I understand that you receives the below error message when trying to create Maintenance Plans:
"Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. (mscorlib)
Have you registered MsDtsSrvrUtil.dll and SqlTaskConnections.dll as well? If no, I suggest you register “DTS.dll”, “MsDtsSrvrUtil.dll”, “SqlTaskConnections.dll” using register32.exe.
If the version of an instance of SQL Server 2008 R2 is earlier than SQL Server 2008 R2 SP2, as Shanky suggested, you may obtain the latest service pack for Microsoft SQL Server. For more information, click the following article number to view the article
in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2527041/en-us
In addition, here is a similar thread. Please refer the solution by DevB:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/ca19a00a-3782-48e9-9ccd-44d4680359c0/maintanance-plan?forum=sqltools
Thanks.
Tracy Cai
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I checked the current postings, but couldn't find anything related to what I am looking for, while one or two related to time intervals and schedules was almost close...
I am a project manager working on an xMII implementation that currently is not running ERP.
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Hi Susan,
Your understanding that 'xMII first looks at the schedule and then the interval' is accurate, but the standard time engine capabilities for Time Periods and Schedules doesn't really address your particular needs.
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Plz reply immediately...
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Sonia,
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Dear HANA DevCenter users,
I want to inform you about a maintenance downtime scheduled for Tuesday, Nov 15, 10am to approximately 11am PST (19:00 - 20:00 CET).
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user569151 wrote:
I have a 3 node RAC on Linux redhat. DB version is 11gr2.
I want to know the steps to perform each node OS patch upgrade.
I want to be sure I did right steps:
1). Node 1, stop crs and do the OS patch upgrade.
2). same steps for Node 2, 3.
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