Saturday, May 29, 2010

Patch Management - What to Download

Download Support Package

All SAP Support Package are required to download from Market place http://service.sap.com/swdc.

  1. Login to Market Place at http://service.sap.com/swdc with you OSS-id
  2. Expand Download
  3. Click on My Company’s Application
  4. SAP NETWEAVER link to download ABAP and Java SP and Kernel files. Java SP is only applicable for SAP BW Server. ABAP SP and Kernel is applicable for SAP BA and SAP BW server.
  5. SAP SPAM/SAINT Update link to download the latest version of Support Package Manager
  6. You also can download Kernel from this main page.
  7. In next Section you will see steps to download for ABAP SP, Java SP and Kernel

Download Kernel

  1. Follow the Link show in the screen shot which is My Company’s Application Components -> SAP NETWEAVER-> SAP NETWEAVER 7.0-> Entry by Components->Application Server ABAP
  2. Expand the Kernel SAP KERNEL 7.0 64-BIT UNICODE ->AIX 64bit
  3. You have to download Kernel Part 1 from ORACLE link and Kernel PART 2 from #Database independent link
  4. You need to download 1 SAR file from Kernel Part 1 which is latest and normally the name start with “SAPEXE_XXXX”
  5. Then you need to down 2 files from Kernel Part 2. Which is DBA tools and Kernel Part 2 (latest patch)
  6. SAPCAR all the 3 files in 1 temporary directory.

Download ABAP Support Package


  1. Follow the Link show in the screen shot which is My Company’s Application Components -> SAP NETWEAVER-> SAP NETWEAVER 7.0-> Entry by Components->Application Server ABAP
  2. Select the component that you want to download e.g. SAP BASIS 7.00
  3. Then Select the package level that you want to download
  4. Then click on to “Add to Download Basket” to download.
  5. The info button give information about the each packages
  6. Then SAPCAR all download package to /usr/sap/trans/EPS/in in development application server
  7. Two files should be created when you SAPCAR each ABAP SP files which is .ATT and .PAT

Download JAVA Support Package

  1. Follow the Link show in the screen shot which is My Company’s Application Components -> SAP NETWEAVER-> SAP NETWEAVER 7.0-> Entry by Components->Application Server Java
  2. Select the package from the list
  3. Then Select the package level that you want to download
  4. Then click on to “Add to Download Basket” to download.
  5. The info button give information about the each packages
  6. Then copy all download package to /usr/sap/trans/EPS/in in SAP BW development application server.
  7. The file name should be with extension .SCA

Extract SAR files

  1. All SAR files that has been download and copied to server need to be extract.
  2. SAP has extract tool to extract the SAR files.
  3. You have to login has adm
  4. Then go to the location where you copied SAR files
  5. Then execute “SAPCAR –xvf
  6. Copy all the .ATT and PAT file to /usr/sap/trans/EPS/in directory.
  7. Then use SPAM to upload this files to SAP

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