Updating SAP ABAP Systems on UNIX and Linux: IBM Db2 for z/OS

Handling Customer-Specific Translations and Languages

Using the translation environment in the SAP system, you can translate missing texts of SAP objects or translate existing texts, for example, to customize them with your own terminology. For the latter, define your own language in the SAP system.

Context

The Repository scanner scans during the upgrade the SAP system objects that you have changed. For these objects, the Software Update Manager provides a conflict resolution mechanism: Objects for which the SAP standard has not changed for the new release are taken on by the upgrade. Objects that collide with the new SAP standard are offered for modification adjustment.

Changes to language-dependent texts – that means translations of SAP system texts – are not considered as modifications to the SAP system and are not covered by any conflict resolution mechanism either. Therefore, these translations do not appear in the modification adjustment and are not saved during the upgrade of the SAP system. They have to be transported separately when an upgrade is performed.

To preserve your translations, proceed as follows.

Procedure

  1. Create a transport request or language package using transaction SMLT_EX to gather your translations on the source system.
  2. Download the transport request or language package from the source system before the upgrade.
  3. After the upgrade, upload the transport request or language package to the target system using transaction SMLT.