Zero Downtime Option for SAP S/4HANA

Bridge and Update Subsystems During the Update

During the update procedure, two subsystems exist in parallel: the bridge and the update subsystem.

The bridge subsystem and the update subsystem are subsystems of the production system, each with its own database schema.

Both subsystems share several services. However, only the batch jobs and transactions running in the bridge subsystem are assigned to the production instances.