BW 3.5 and BOBJ XI 3.1 SP3 Integration

Hello. I am in a strange Situation...we are using BW 3.5 SPS 18, for Single Sign on and integration with BOBJ XI 3.1 SP3, Minimum required from BW server side BW 3.5 SPS 20.. what happens if we integrate BOBJ with BW with out applying SPS 19 and SPS 20? any iades? the reason for this is very soon we are planning to upgrade to BW 7.3 (may be after 12 to 18 months, and we don't want to spend any extra money on BW 3.5 system).. what do you guys recommend?

If the Supported platforms documentation states a specific patch level this means that the product functionality has been tested with this patch level and if you run into trouble using this setup SAP will provide support and corrections for the problems that may arise.
The fact that SPS 18 is not referenced in the official documentation means that either this setup was found to have issues during the pre-relase official tests of SAP or that this was not tested at all and if you do run into issues SAP's first suggestion will be to upgrade your SAP BW backend.
Regards,
Stratos

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