Business continuity during planned SAP upgrades

What techniques are SAP customers employing to accommodate SAP upgrades and at the same time ensure 24/7/365 business continuity?
Thanks for sharing your experiences.
Fred

Hi Fred,
have you checked out the nZDM capabilities offered by SUM (details see here)? Additionally, you can find a good summary in this solution brief, where all other possibilities are summarized.
Hope this helps.
Bernhard

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Business continuation is very important to achieve the goals of the organization in thelong run. If the organiztion cannot continue in the future, it cannot achieve its targets or goals and eventually, it will come to an end creating huge loss and diverting fromthe objectives with which it was first established.
Business continuity plan template helps us with this problem. It gives us the ideas as to how we can continue our business to the long run. We can log in to https://bccatalyst.com/templates for more on this.

Hey,
it is depend on the WAS version (6.20, 6.40, 7.00 and etc),
here is some information:
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/89cb626b-0901-0010-d2b7-f5dcff4e74c8
and:
https://service.sap.com/ha

Role of Time Mgmt functional consultant during SAP Upgrade from 4.7 to ECC6

Hi,
Could anyone explain the role of a time management functional consultant during SAP upgrade from R/3 4.7 to ECC6.0. Please provide me if you got any documentation.
Thanks,
Sunny

"After you upgrade to SAP ERP 6.0, you can enhance the functionality of your application without performing a further
upgrade thanks to a new deployment technology u2013 the SAP enhancement package for SAP ERP. The enhancement
packages simplify the way you manage and deploy new software functions for SAP ERP." - that is the real benefit of ECC 6.0
There aren't any major changes to PTM functionalities from 4.7 to 6.0. I hope your system is already using IT 2006 instead of IT 0005. Under functional role, you are required to configure/test any functional upgrade and manage data.
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Yash

Business Continuity Plan

Hello all,
I'd like to know if the CAPA (corrective and preventice action) functionnality in PC3.0 can adress the Business Continuity Plan need for Bank industry for example?
Best regards

Hello sir Yes i have something about that It amy be very useful to u.<a href="http://www.newtonit.co.uk">business continuity plan</a>

Business Event during R12 upgrade (11.5.10.2 - 12.1.3)

Best practices for R12 upgrade says to disable custom tiggers and business events.
Disabling custom Triggers is fine , understood it.
However the phrase "and business events." is a bit confusing for my customer.
Though IMO ,it means disabling custom business events and not all ,however he is keen to know whether this means
disabling standard business events as well.
Also since we are bringing down all the services including WF services ,how can Business events be processed ?
Moreover as far as I know ,enabling maintenance mode shuts down the Workflow Business Events System which means no business event will be processed.
Thus why it is written in most of the Best Practices documents to disable business events ?
thanks for your help.
-SK

I have never needed to disable business events in all the upgrades I did from 11.5.10.2 to 12.1.3 and I believe it is not mentioned in these docs (I understand it is mentioned in the best practices, but I believe it is not required).
Oracle E-Business Suite Upgrade Guide Release 11i to 12.1.1 [ID 1082375.1]
Oracle E-Business Suite Upgrade Guide, Release 11i to 12.1.3
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/B53825_08/current/acrobat/121upgrade.pdf
Thanks,
Hussein

What production downtime should we expect during the technical upgrade?

Hi,
We are planning for a Upgrade from 4.7 to ECC 600, i need to know how can we able to calculate the downtime for the upgrade?
Thanks.

The production downtime is the period during the technical upgrade when the production system is out of service. The downtime period depends on various factors such as hardware power and size of the tables to be migrated, and is therefore contingent on each individual situation. SAP upgrade technology provides you with two strategy options: downtime-minimized strategy and
Resource-minimized strategy.
Characteristics of the downtime-minimized strategy:
Shorter production downtime
Parallel operation of production system and shadow system that enables the execution of as many upgrade tasks as possible during the uptime of the production system
Higher demand on system resources
Characteristics of the Resource-minimized strategy:
No parallel operation of production system and shadow system
Lower demand on system resources
Increased production downtime
SAP recommends that you perform the upgrade using the downtime-minimized strategy if a short production downtime is required.
For more details refer
http://service.sap.com/instguides
http://service.sap.com/erp
http://service.sap.com/erp-inst
Hope this will help you, do revert if you need further details.
Best Regards,
Sachin.

Put Together A Data Archiving Strategy And Execute It Before Embarking On Sap Upgrade

A significant amount is invested by organizations in a SAP upgrade project. However few really know that data archiving before embarking on SAP upgrade yields significant benefits not only from a cost standpoint but also due to reduction in complexity during an upgrade. This article not only describes why this is a best practice but also details what benefits accrue to organizations as a result of data archiving before SAP upgrade. Avaali is a specialist in the area of Enterprise Information Management. Our consultants come with significant global experience implementing projects for the worlds largest corporations.
Archiving before Upgrade
It is recommended to undertake archiving before upgrading your SAP system in order to reduce the volume of transaction data that is migrated to the new system. This results in shorter upgrade projects and therefore less upgrade effort and costs. More importantly production downtime and the risks associated with the upgrade will be significantly reduced. Storage cost is another important consideration: database size typically increases by 5% to 10% with each new SAP software release – and by as much as 30% if a Unicode conversion is required. Archiving reduces the overall database size, so typically no additional storage costs are incurred when upgrading.
It is also important to ensure that data in the SAP system is cleaned before your embark on an upgrade. Most organizations tend to accumulate messy and unwanted data such as old material codes, technical data and subsequent posting data. Cleaning your data beforehand smoothens the upgrade process, ensure you only have what you need in the new version and helps reduce project duration. Consider archiving or even purging if needed to achieve this. Make full use of the upgrade and enjoy a new, more powerful and leaner system with enhanced functionality that can take your business to the next level.
Archiving also yields Long-term Cost Savings
By implementing SAP Data Archiving before your upgrade project you will also put in place a long term Archiving Strategy and Policy that will help you generate on-going cost savings for your organization. In addition to moving data from the production SAP database to less costly storage devices, archived data is also compressed by a factor of five relative to the space it would take up in the production database. Compression dramatically reduces space consumption on the archive storage media and based on average customer experience, can reduce hardware requirements by as much as 80% or 90%. In addition, backup time, administration time and associated costs are cut in half. Storing data on less costly long-term storage media reduces total cost of ownership while providing users with full, transparent access to archived information.

Maybe this article can help; it uses XML for structural change flexiblity: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/oramag/2006/06-jul/o46xml-097640.html

Test plan for upgrading the support packs

Dear friends,
We are going to upgrade the BI system with SP18.
Please let me know the impact system will be facing with this upgrade and the test plan to take care after the upgrade.
With Regards
Neetu
Edited by: Siegfried Szameitat on Oct 29, 2008 8:48 AM

Hi,
it will helps hopeful,
Upgradation steps:
1) Convert Data Classes of InfoCubes. Set up a new data class as described in SAP OSS Note 46272.
2) Pay attention to the naming convention. Execute the RSDG_DATCLS_ASSIGN report.
3) Run the report RSUPGRCHECK to activate objects.
4) Upgrading ABAP and JAVA in parallel may cause issues. If there is no custom development on J2EE instance, it is recommended to drop the J2EE instance and re-install the latest J2EE instance after the upgrade.
5) Apply SAP OSS Note 917999 if you include the Support Patch 6 with the upgrade or you will get the error at PARCONV_UPG phase. When you upgrade to a product containing Basis 700, the phase PARCONV_UPG terminates. You included Basis Support Packages up to package level 6 (SAPKB70006) in the upgrade. The job RDDGENBB_n terminates with the error RAISE_EXCEPTION. In addition to this, the syslog contains the short dump TSV_TNEW_PAGE_ALLOC_FAILED. The program SDB2FORA terminates in the statement "LOOP AT stmt_tab". An endless loop occurs when the system creates the database table QCM8TATOPGA.
6) Apply the OSS note 917999 if you get the following error during PARCONV_UPG phase: PARCONV_UPG terminates with TSV_TNEW_PAGE_ALLOG_FAILED
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820062 - Oracle Database 10g: Patchsets/Patches for 10.1.0
839574 u2013 Oracle database 10g: Stopping the CSS services ocssd.bin
830576 u2013 Parameter recommendations for Oracle 10g
868681 u2013 Oracle Database 10g: Database Release Check
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847019 - BI_CONT 7.02: Installation and Upgrade Information
818322 u2013 Add. Info: Upgrade to SAP NW 2004s ABAP
813658 - Repairs for upgrades to products based on SAP NW 2004s AS
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2. Apply the following SAP OSS Notes 47019 - BI_CONT 7.02: Installation and Upgrade 558197 - upgrade hangs in PARCONV_UPG, XPRAS_UPG, SHADOW_IMPORT_UPG2 836517 u2013 Oracle Database 10g: Environment for SAP Upgrade
3. Install the J2EE instance as Add-in to ABAP for BI 7.0 and apply the Support Patch that equivalent to ABAP Support Patch.
4. Run SGEN to recompile programs.
5. Install the Kernel Patch.
6. Missing Variants - (also part of test script) look at the RSRVARIANT table in SE16. If it is empty, then you will definitely need to run RSR_VARIANT_XPRA program - RSR_VARINT_XPRA OSS -953346 and 960206 1003481
7. Trouble Shootauthorizations 820183 - New authorization concept in BI
Regards,
Deva Reddy

Plans to upgrade CPS?

Are there plans to upgrade CPS to correspond to Cronacle 9 by Redwood?

The last i heard from SAP(a week ago) is that the release date has been pushed for several months and there is no exact date yet.
Thanks
Nanda

Urgent SAP upgrade from 4.0B to 4.7 Oracle 9.2.0.6

Dear support,
I have upgraded my oracle database to 8.1.7.4 with 4.0B extended kernel along with upgradation from NT 4.0 to Win 2000 is finished , and we are planning to upgrade SAP to 4.7 version.Please let me know whether i need to upgrade my database to oracle 9.2.0.6 before upgrade prepare phase ,
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I am not able to find any info on service.sap.com\PAM , because info about 4.0B
version not available.
Best Regards,
AjitR.

-> regarding 40B_EXT see sapnote 1.009.695
-> see sapnote 85.838 (section Operating System: WINDOWS FOR X86):
SAP KERNEL 4.0B_COM 32-BIT:
ORACLE 8.1.7 WINDOWS SERVER 2000/IA32 32BIT 4,5
ORACLE 9.2 WINDOWS SERVER 2000/IA32 32BIT 6,7,8
ORACLE 9.2 WINDOWS SERVER 2003/IA32 32BIT 9
SAP KERNEL 4.0B_EXT 32-BIT:
ORACLE 9.2 WINDOWS SERVER 2000/IA32 32BIT 6,7,8
ORACLE 9.2 WINDOWS SERVER 2003/IA32 32BIT 9
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SAP Upgrade from SAP R/3 4.6 C to ECC6.0, Delete DMC componenet

Dear All,
We are upgrading SAP from R/3 4.6C to ECC6.0 . Our client has installed DMC in 4.6C as a "Main transport" request . DMC becomes an Add-on tool in ECC6.0 . SAP pepare phase recognize DMC is already installed in 4.6C and required upgrade CD 51031689. Upgrade CD 51031689 is not available in marketplace and required an restricted access . Actually we are not using DMC component and would not planning to upgrade to DMC 6.0 . SAP Upgrade Prepere phase has facility to mark as "Delete" for unwanted add-on componenets. We are able to select "delete" radio button for other Add-on compoenents but unfortunately "IS_SELECT" phase doesn't provide me an option to select "delete" radio button .Any help/suggestions are highly appreciated.
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Mahendra

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SCC4 - Protection against SAP upgrade

Hello guys,
i have a question regarding to the "Protection against SAP upgrade" flag in SCC4 for the client settings.
I know that this flag will make a client unusable in case of an upgrade (for example from ERP2004 to ERP2005), but what is about applying support packages?
Is this flag also valid for support packages?
The documentation about this parameter does not make a statement to this point:
> If this flag is set, the client is no longer supplied with data during SAP upgrades. After an SAP upgrade, it is not possible to work actively in the client. The flag can only be set for a test client or an SAP reference client (Early Watch).
Does SAP understand "applying support packages" as an upgrade?
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Regards
Stefan

No.
Applying SP is not SAP upgrade.
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Planning to Upgrade from PI 7.0 to PI 7.1

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earlier version PI 7.0 (SOA) and PI 7.1(Enterprise SOA), Architecutre point of view what's the major difference between PI 7.0 and PI7.1

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Can we do oracle 11g software installation in parallel to SAP upgrade

Hi Basis Expert,
I need your inputs for one of this query
The query is. Can we do oracle 11g software installation in parallel to SAP upgrade when the system is in Downtime phase.
The idea is running SAP upgrade and in parallel running oracle 11g software installation. So that we can reduced the time.
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Regards,
Anil Shenoy.

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SAP upgrade - questions for report painter and query

Hi Experts,
I have two quwstions of SAP upgrade.
My requirement is: SAP upgrade from 4.6B to ECC 6.0 with non-unicode.
1.Does SAP upgrade influence the report painter? If influence, could you tell me what should I do for this case.
2. We have so many queries (SQ01) in our system and many of them haven't been run for a long time. we need a tool to get the runtimes of queries in a certain durition.
For example: From 2008/01/01 to 2008/03/31,I want to know how many queries had been run/ query name/ runtimes of each query.
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> 1.Does SAP upgrade influence the report painter? If influence, could you tell me what should I do for this case.
You can check
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> 2. We have so many queries (SQ01) in our system and many of them haven't been run for a long time. we need a tool to get the runtimes of queries in a certain durition.
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