Retrofit System

Hello
I have been looking for detailed information about the Retrofit system and its applications in system landscapes where multiple releases occur at the same time, but I am not finding many data.
Does anyone has experience in this subject or knows some material that describes how the retrofit works and which are the advantages and the disadvantages of using it?
Thanks,
Fernanda Viveiros

According with note 1040612, you can use this function with the following SAP_BASIS releases.
     SAP_BASIS
          SAP Basis component
                                               710          - 710
                                               700          - 700
                                               610          - 640
                                               46A          - 46D
Check this note too
1066123

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Hi Team,
I am implementing retrofit functionality in ChaRM. Currently i am using Sol Man EHP1 ST Level: SAPKITL433. I am working with ECC landscape (ECC 5.) to test retrofit functionality (DEV,QA,PRD & Retrofit). What is the software component level required in the ECC systems to implement retrofit?
Regards
PSK

According with note 1040612, you can use this function with the following SAP_BASIS releases.
     SAP_BASIS
          SAP Basis component
                                               710          - 710
                                               700          - 700
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                                               46A          - 46D
Check this note too
1066123

Retrofit issue

Hi Experts,
We have created TR in SE2:300 (SE2K900212) and after releasing it, we have got Transport Of Copies (SE2K900214). Now object which is relevant with Zpackage25 under this TR, we want that to move to SE2:200 client through automatic retrofit process, which we are trying to do.
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We don’t want target system of 200 to be changed to 400, 120 is correct client, but I believe Zpackage25 or relevant Transport layer having some issue in not recognizing this package ,
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Hi,
This is the complete scenario:
Our Solution Manager system DM2 is on Solution Manager 7.1 SP 07.We
have Connected our Solution Manager system to Satellite system SE2(ECC
System) and we have configured ChaRM in this Landscape for SE2
satellite system.
In our SE2 Satellite system, we have built "Implementation Landscape"
and "Maintenance Landscape" as below for Prototyping "Retrofit
Scenario".
Maintenance Landscape:
SE2/200(Dev) -> SE2/120(QA) -> SE2/110(Pre-Prod) -> SE2/100(Prod)
Implementation Landscape:
SE2/300(Dev) -> SE2/400 -> SE2/100(Prod)
We have followed the below steps for recreating "Auto-Import" Scenario
in Retrofit
1) Create a Transport Request in SE2/300 from Task List and save some
Example Objects in the same. The Task List has been created from the
Project containing the Logical Components of both "Implementation
Landscape" and "Maintenance Landscape" with SE2/200 being identified as
the "Retrofit" system.
2) Release the task of this Transport Request from the Satellite system.
3) Release this Transport Request from the Task List.At this stage,
Transport of Copies(ToC) is generated.
4) Create Transport Request in SE2/200 from the Task List.
5) Start "Retrofit" from the Task List.When performing this task,we are
receiving the following Error message after selecting the "Retrofit"
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"Choose a Change Request with Target system SE2/400".
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Using ChaRM Retrofit?

Greetings, Solution Manager experts.
My company is considering implementing an N + 1 ERP environment: 1 stream for maintenance, and 1 for project work.
At this time, I am trying to assess if ChaRM Retrofit is being widely used in the industry, and what benefits and problems companies have seen with it. From what I can tell, there is not much documentation available on this topic.
Are you using ChaRM Retrofit in an N + 1 SAP landscape?
If so, has your company see a benefit to using this product?
Can you offer any tips or watchouts to implementation?
Thanks in advance for your help.

Hi,
Here are the information i collected about his topic. (hard to find information about that) :
Prerequisites :
A retrofit system must exist in the Maintenance Project (role type : Post Processing system). It should be a development system of an other project, for exemple an implementation project.
The task list of the maintenance project will now have two new tasks :
--> general tasks --> Assign Post Processing system to development system
--> Track section --> Post Processing --> retrofit systems --> start retrofit
I wish i could give clues for further research
Regards

Massive copy of BW transformation between different source system

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ChaRM: Retrofit

Hi Retrofit,
The new functioanlity "Retrofit" is available in Sol Man EHP1. What is retrofit functioanlity? How is the benefit of this functioanlity?
Your input will be very much appreciated
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Kumar

Hi Khalil,
Request for your input to set up the logical component for retrofit functionality.
I am considering two possible ways to implement retrofit.
1. Create one logical component LC1 and the follwoing systems in the logical component:
LC1: SJ1:100 (System Role: DEV), SJ1:200 (System Role:QA), SJ1:300(System Role:PRD), SJ1:400 (System Role: Post Processing).
Note: Post Processing system is a retrofit system.
2. Create two logical componets like LC1 & LC2 with the folowing systems in the logical component
LC1: SJ1:100 (System Role: DEV), SJ1:200 (System Role:QA), SJ1:300(System Role:PRD), SJ1:400 (System Role: Post Processing).
LC2: SJI:400 (System Role: DEV), SJ1:200 (System Role:QA), SJ1:300(System Role:PRD).
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Cross System Object Lock with ChaRM Retrofit

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I need to know if there is the ability to have a cross system object lock while utiliziing Retrofit within ChaRM. For example I am working with an N, N1 landscape. When I release a transport request in N I need the object to be locked in the N, and N1 (after retrofit) landscapes.
Will this be supported with both Workbench and Customizing requests?

I dont believe this is possible at the moment. As you must be already aware, that SAP releases the locks from the objects as soon as the transport request is released from the Development System. Unless, this locking mechanism is extended to various systems first (DEV and QAS) and later to parallel landscapes (eg:- Project landscapes) it would be difficult to bring in this feature.
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Hi,
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(c) Copyright 1999 Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.
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How do you move changes from your project developments into the maintenance development system?

Good day colleagues.
We are in the process of introducing retrofit, and the picture is clear for us, generally speaking, to retrofit the project landscape with the changes done in the maintenance landscape.
What about the other way around? We mean, when the project is set to Go Live, we understand the transports will be all added, e.g. to the Production System buffer to be moved there via Maintenance Cycle, based on the way we defined the project and the logical component being used.
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Hi Piyush.
I apologize for a late close on this questioning about moving projects back into the maintenance stream.
Basically there are 2 solutions as far as we know:
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This is a very practical and interesting approach. The only reason we did not adopt it, is based on the fact that if by any chance we encounter an issue with a project transport object in the maintenance stream (Dev or QA), now that all is bundled together, we may be stuck right at the time weare getting ready to GoLive. How tough is going to be that issue? how easy and quick to fix?how much would that affect the whole project time frame?   Those questions made us decide to option 2.
2. What we are doing is that at cutover we move at the same time all project transports to the transport buffer of each of the maintenance stream systems (Dev, QA, and Prod).   We first open the gate to move the transports to Dev and we test, then to QA and we test, as well. If there may be an issue, and the issue can not be quickly resolved by the project team, we can go up to the extreme of using a new feature introduced in ChaRM in SP10, if we are not wrong, but definitely available in SP12. That feature provides a way to selectively decide which transports of the release are to Go Live and which ones do not, although we have no had to use that feature, yet, but it is there.
We do not see any risk on adding the transports to the maintenance buffers at the same time. There are ways to control the systems that are open for receiving transports, and the project phases, which guarantees no room for error. There have to be deliberate actions taken (more than one in our case), to wrongly move a project to GoLive before its time comes.
That is more or less the scenario Piyush.
Hope that explains the scenario. So far no decision on really publishing as a blog. It seems not to be written on stone, as consulting with different companies, each adds its own flavor to the recipe and shuffle ideas to get to what they are looking for and makes them happy.
Juan

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Hi team,
In STMS, How to set-up transport path for retrofit client? I have already set-up transport path for DEV, QA and PRD to activate standard ChaRM. Is the existing transport path to be modified to include retrofit client?
Note: I am working with ECC sandbox to test retrofit (within ECC sandbox system, i am creating four clients DEV,QA, PRD & RETROFIT)
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