Errors in DDIC Activation phase during upgrade.

Question

Hi,
Title: Errors in DDIC Activation phase during upgrade.
During preprocessing phase (phase ACT_UPG) we got many DDIC activation errors such as:
SAPup broke during phase ACT_UPG in module MAIN_SHDRUN / Shadow System Operations: SPDD and Activation.
DDIC ACTIVATION ERRORS and RETURN CODE in SAPACCI702.CPE
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1EEDO519 "Data Element" "/BI0/OICH_AT" could not be activated
1EEDO519 "Data Element" "/BI0/OICREA_TIME" could not be activated
1 ETP111 exit code           : "8"
We have searched the SDN, many posts say that we have to just activate them. But my question is where - in source system OR in Shadow system?
We assumed it is Source system (please correct if it is wrong), unlocked the system and logged in as normal user and tried to activate the Data Element. Now, it says "Search Help /BI0/OICH_AT is not active or contains no parameter".   How to go about it?
If it is Shadow System, how can i unlock the system?
Many thanks,
Mohan.

Answer 1

Dear Mohan,
There are search helps configured for the dataelements in ACTUPG.ELG. These search helps were created by mistake by the system.
The search helps can be deleted manually in the shadow instance.
In this case you should remove these fields in se11 (in your shadow instance) as the Search help shouldn't exist.
You should do this step for all data elements shown in the log ACTUPG.ELG:
For example: SE11 -> /BI0/OICH_AT -> Change -> Tab "Further characteristics"
1. Goto SE11:
2. Select Data type and fill "/BI0/OICH_AT" and display
3. Select the tab "Further Characteristics" and
4. Remove the values for fields "Name" and "Parameters"
   then click on icon "Activate"
Please do the same for the other object.
But before performing above steps you need to unlock the shadow instance by the following command:
SAPup unlockshd <SID>
(if using SAPup)
SAPehpi unlockshd <SID>
(if using SAPehpi)
Also do not forget to lock the shadow system again after performing the steps and continuing the upgrade by the following command:
SAPup lockshd <SID>
(if using SAPup)
SAPehpi lockshd <SID>
(if using SAPehpi)
You can logon to your shadow system with any different user than DDIC.
Best Regards,
Abhishek
Edited by: Abhishek Srivastava on Oct 17, 2011 6:26 PM