Patch Management - Java Support Package Upgrade

Java Support Package Upgrade

SAP Enterprise Portal (EP) is running J2EE engine at the back end. In the event if you need to upgrade support pack for SAP EP, you need to remember that you need to upgrade Java Support Pack (SP). The tools we need to use is Software Deployment Manager (SDM) which need to trigger at AIX level.

Check current Java SP Level

1. Login to portal with username j2ee_admin
2. http://portal.yourdomainname.com.my:50100/index.html
3. Then Click on the System information
4. Then click on All components to all components current patch level.

Steps to Apply Java SP

1. Download Java SP to the /usr/sap/trans/EPS/in in SAP BW application server
2. Once copied, now start SDM to apply the download support pack. Since SDM is gui base you need gui base telnet session to execute this. In this case we use xterm.
3. Go to /usr/sap/BWQ/DVEBMGS01/j2ee/JSPM directory in BW application server and execute “go” as shown.
4. Key in SDM password
5. If you are upgrading all components then check the “Support Package Stack” or if you want to apply selected SP then select “Single Support Packages (advanced use)
6. NWDI leave as default
7. Click on Next button
8. This screen show all current components in the current system
9. This show the current patch level for each components
10. Here you can see which patch you can choose to upgrade or skip.
11. If everything ok, click on the next button
12. If this is the patch you want to apply, then click on the start button.
13. The Java SP run slower then ABAP SP. If you upgrade the all components, it might take 1 to 2 days depends on the server capabilities.
14. While the upgrade runs, it will stop and start J2ee engine, at this time rdmsportal will be down.
15. Once finished Deployed, check the status and if it is successful you should see “DEPLOYED”, or else if it shows “ERROR” then you have to investigate further.
16. If DEPLOYED then can click on the Exit button to exit the SDM gui.