Downloading Files from Maintenance Planner

Download the files calculated by the SAP Maintenance Planner that are necessary for the update.

Context

The Maintenance Planner supports the download of a consistent queue that includes all necessary support packages and enhancement packages. In addition, it calculates a valid import queue for the selected SAP system and generates the stack configuration file stack.xml. In the Select Target phase of the SUM, you enter the path to the stack configuration file.

Procedure

In the Maintenance Planner, select for the download the following options:
- SAP Kernel
Note
- We recommend using the path /usr/sap/<SID>/download to store the required files. Alternatively, you could create a symbolic link.
- Additional kernel components
  
  Make sure that you have selected all necessary kernel components, such as the IGSEXE.SAR file, in the Maintenance Planner. Currently, the Maintenance Planner does not calculate these files automatically.
Upload the following files to a folder on the application server on which you run the Software Update Manager (typically, this is the primary application server):
- The files calculated by Maintenance Planner including kernel for the target database
- stack.xml file
Note

Additional SPAM files might be required:
The Maintenance Planner only offers the latest SPAM version for the target software release.
If the Software Update Manager prompts you during the SPAM version check to import the latest SPAM update for your source release, download the latest SPAM version for the current software release manually and extract the files to the directory /usr/sap/trans/EPS/in. Afterwards you confirm the directory in the dialogue so that SUM can find and check this SPAM version.
If the latest SPAM version for the source release is already in the download directory before the update, the Software Update Manager will extract the files automatically