Download Directory or Mount Directories for Data Carrier Content (Phase PREP_INPUT_CHECK/KERNEL_PRE)

If data carrier such as the Export DVD are required, provide the download directory with all necessary software archives or with data carrier content. See also Filling the Download Directory. If you have not copied all the necessary contents, the Software Update Manager asks in a dialog for DVD Mount Points. Enter the path to the missing software archives or data carriers to mount them. In addition, SUM provides you for your information with a list of suitable data carriers including media numbers and media descriptions.

If you have only one DVD drive, you do not have to enter any other mount directories. Whenever necessary, the Software Update Manager prompts you to specify a mount directory or to change the data carrier.

If you have more than one DVD drive or if you are able to copy the media contents to disk, enter all the mount directories used. You can enter up to 24 mount directories.

The mount directory path may not contain any blanks or special characters.

If you entered mount directories for all required software archives or data carriers required and SUM finds the right directory, you are not prompted to enter mount directories. If you do this, you can ignore all further instructions to enter mount directories in this document.

If you do not have enough DVD disk drives, you can copy the contents of each DVD to separate directories on your hard disk (provided you have sufficient disk space). Specify the names of these directories when the program prompts you to enter the mount directories.

Password of User DDIC (Phase PROFREAD)

Enter the password of user DDIC in the system, client 000.

This password is needed for the RFC connection to the SAP system. To be able to perform all necessary actions, user DDIC needs the authorization SAP_ALL.

During the upgrade, you have to unlock the user. After the upgrade, the user is not locked again automatically.

Usually, it is not necessary to change the password of user DDIC during the upgrade. If you do change the password, you have to change it in the original system, the shadow system, and in the Software Update Manager.

For a description of this procedure, see Changing the DDIC Password.

Checking the Configuration of sapcpe (Phase PREP_INIT/CHECKPROF_INI)

During phase PREP_INIT/CHECKPROF_INI, the Software Update Manager is checking various profiles and their settings including the configuration of program sapcpe for the kernel replication.

If there is a problem with the configuration of sapcpe, phase PREP_INIT/CHECKPROF_INI stops and points you to the problem with the kernel directory. Change the replication configuration so that the SAP kernel can be replicated to $(DIR_INSTANCE)/exe.

For more information and the corresponding procedure, see SAP Note 1649026 .

SAP Note Implementation (CHECK4NOTES_TOOL)

A list of SAP Notes is displayed that you have to implement to avoid activation errors later in the procedure. Use the Note Assistant to apply the SAP Notes. After you have implemented all relevant SAP Notes, repeat the phase and then continue the process.

For more information about applying SAP Notes with the Note Assistant, see the SAP Help Portal for your SAP NetWeaver source release mentioned at Other Required Documentation:

SPAU Fill Level Display (Phase PREP_PARSETUP/SPAU_FILL_LEVEL_DEC)

In this phase, the Software Update Manger checks for SAP Notes and repository objects that were modified but not adjusted in the transactions SPDD and SPAU in previous updates. If such objects are detected, the phase SPAU_FILL_LEVEL_DEC displays the dialog Open actions in transaction SPDD and SPAU. This dialog offers you the possibility to complete all outstanding modification adjustments in an early stage of the current update to reduce the adjustment effort at a later point in time.

The dialog shows the following numbers:

• Obsolete and non-adjusted SAP Notes
• Non-adjusted objects that were modified either with or without Modification Assistant, and the SPDD-relevant objects of them
• Modified but non-adjusted objects with active SAP versions that can be reset to SAP standard versions

You can see the same statistics in transaction SPAU, provided that you use the default selections and you filter according to all possible statuses except for the status adjusted. Note that if one or more statuses are excluded in addition, the shown numbers may differ from the numbers in the above mentioned dialog Open actions in transaction SPDD and SPAU of the Software Update Manager.

If you perform the current update on your development system, we strongly recommend that you perform the following actions:

• Confirm all obsolete notes.
• Reset all non-adjusted objects with active SAP version to SAP standard versions.
• Carry out the outstanding modification adjustments.

Afterwards, release the resulting workbench request into the system landscape before you continue with the current update procedure.

In the development system, you can use the report RSUPG_AUTO_ADJ_SPAU. It retrieves the non-adjusted objects that can be reset to the SAP original version and writes a detailed list to a log file. Depending on the number of objects listed in the summary, you can execute this report in the background.

Furthermore, this report offers you the possibility to perform the reset of the listed non-adjusted objects to the SAP original version automatically. For this purpose, set the parameter p_check to <space> and enter a valid and already existing workbench request as value for parameter p_trkorr during the execution of the report.