EHP UPGRADE
~ A Technical Overview
EHP and SP Upgrade
SP UPGRADE:-
• The term Version upgrade refers to the upgrade of SAP release.
• - An upgrade from SAP R/3 4.6C to ERP 6.0 is a Version upgrade.
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EHP UPGRADE:-
• Enhancement Package upgrade is moving from one enhancement package
release to another for an SAP solution.
• For example EHP upgrade from SAP ERP 6.0 EHP3 to ERP 6.0 EHP5.
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EHP Upgrade
• The enhancement package upgrades for SAP, more commonly referred to as
simply SAP EHP upgrades, have numerous benefits. Unlike a release upgrade,
which is done to upgrade your SAP system to new technology, the purpose of an
EHP upgrade is to bring new business functions within the same system.
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• In other words, with an EHP upgrade, you get a series of new features and
functionality to further enhance your SAP operations within your business. These
upgrades are done either to resolve pre-existing issues or to introduce a new
concept to the system.
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Benefits of EHP Upgrade
For an Enhanced Security
• It goes without saying that enhancement upgrades are meant to resolve the scope of security concerns in your SAP system. This is exactly why your
SAP security features get more and more robust every time you upgrade your system with the latest version of EHP.
For Configuring and Using New Features and New Business Functionality
• Probably the biggest advantage of going for an EHP upgrade on your SAP system is the array of additional features that you get along with it. These
features and new sets of functionalities are developed keeping in mind the pain points of using the current SAP version.
• A better streamlining of your SAP functionality through these added features is, in itself, a good reason to make that upgrade!
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To Get Uninterrupted SAP Support
• You may be familiar with several cases where organizations stop getting active SAP support for an older version just because they didn’t upgrade it
with the last EHP version. This happens due to the fact that the SAP support team is trained to work on the latest EHP upgrades, and over time, the
previous versions become completely obsolete.
To Reduce Customization Cost for Solution Implementation
• Another fairly obvious benefit of updating your SAP system to the latest EHP version is that it significantly slashes down the cost incurred during the
customization for solution implementation. This is probably why SAP itself recommends these seemingly optional upgrades as they are meant to
make your system more efficient, bug-free and economical than ever before!
To Respond to the Customer Quickly
• Last but certainly not least is the indirect betterment of the customer experience through SAP EHP upgrades. This mainly happens as a result of
improved efficiency in a multitude of ways as well as due to the introduction of new features in your SAP system.
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SOFTWARE UPGRADE
MANAGEMENT
• SAP Technical Upgrade is a periodic project that is
implemented across companies to upgrade their SAP
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system to the latest released version. Most of the upgrade
activities are done by the technical team and the role of
functional consultants is limited and mostly confined to
regression testing.
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Steps in SUM Process
SUM Having mainly
6 steps,
• Extraction .
• Configuration
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• Checks
• Preprocessing
• Execution
• Postprocessing
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ABAP INVOLVEMENT
• Preprocessing
• ====> SPDD activities in Shadow instance
• Extraction .
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====> Pre upgrade SPAU activities
• Postprocessing
====> Post upgrade SPAU and SPAU_ENH activities
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ICONS
Status of Objects:
The status of a repository object is indicated by an icon.
The following icons indicate the status of the individual repository objects:
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Icon Status Icon Status Icon Status
Automatic Deleted objects Reset
adjustment Object
Tool-supported Object
adjustment Obsolete Adjusted
Manual Post-processing Unknown
adjustment required Adjustment mode
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SPDD
• SPDD – This transaction would contain the list of the Standard
Data dictionary objects which have been changed.
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• This is for data dictionary corrections. If any standard tables have
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been modified, then that object appears in the list and you have to
adjust it again after comparing the versions.
• SPDD is a phase during S/4 HANA migration where all data
dictionary objects (Structure, Data Element etc.) are compared
between S/4 HANA data dictionary object and ECC data dictionary
if any changed is found system proposes the same to take
necessary actions.
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SPDD
Transaction – SPDD.
• Run Transaction SPDD
• Select all the check boxes .
and execute(F8).
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• Image on the right shows
after execution.
• The green Highlight
Describes that it is
adjusted and the bule
highlight requires manual
adjustment.
• Note: Deleted Objects can
be ignored as they are
deleted .
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SPDD
• These all elements are present under two nodes
– with modification assistant and without
modification assistant.
• Objects present under with modification
assistant have the modification assistant ‘ON’
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and we can see the modification logs.
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• The objects in green color as shown below are
the objects processed already and the ones in
blue are the ones which still need to be
processed.
• Apart from the nodes – ‘With modification
assistant ‘and ‘Without modification assistant ‘,
there is one more node sometimes – ‘Deleted
objects’
• Check the Versions If General Attributes are
changed then decide if need to “Adopt
Modification” or “Reset to Original”.To Adopt
Modifications in “without modification Assistant”
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SPAU
•The SPAU transaction contains the objects – Programs, Reports, Screens, Messages,
Notes, Function Modules etc.
•which have difference in the Latest SAP request and the previous ones.
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•This SPAU phase can be done either just after SPDD or after the Upgrade of the system
by the Basis team.
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SPAU
Transaction SPAU
• Run Transaction SPAU
• Select all the check boxes
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and execute(F8).
• Image on the right shows
after execution.
• The green Highlight
Describes that it is adjusted
and the bule highlight
requires
manual adjustment.
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SPAU
• These all elements are present under two nodes –
with modification assistant and without
modification assistant.
• Objects present under with modification assistant
have the modification assistant ‘ON’ and we can
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see the modification logs.
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• The objects in green color as shown below are the
objects processed already and the ones in blue are
the ones which still need to be processed.
• Apart from the nodes – ‘With modification assistant
‘and ‘Without modification assistant ‘, there is one
more node sometimes – ‘Deleted objects’
• Check the Versions If General Attributes are
changed then decide if need to “Adopt Modification”
or “Reset to Original”.To Adopt Modifications in
“without modification Assistant” manually go to
se11 and assign a transport for that object.You can
also go in change mode and save it in your TR.
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