Updating SAP ABAP Systems on UNIX and Linux: SAP MaxDB

Mitigating Issues with the Toolimport

This section covers problems with the import of ABAP tools performed by SUM.

Context

To prepare the original SAP system for the update procedure, the Software Update Manager imports its own ABAP tools into this start system. This procedure is called Toolimport and performed during the Extraction roadmap step.

However, short dumps in the running system may occur during or after the implementation of the ABAP tools. This can be caused by API calls to one of the objects that were imported by SUM. Unfortunately, these changes cannot be omitted.

To mitigate possible issues due to the Toolimport, you can define the time when the ABAP tools is to be imported, for example, when the system is not or only little used.

Procedure

Set a breakpoint before phase PREP_IMPORT/TOOLIMPD.

The Software Update Manager stops the update procedure before this phase. Once you continue, the Toolimport will start importing the necessary ABAP tools.

For more information about setting breakpoints, see Breakpoints During the Update.