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Upgrading EHP6.0 Ehp5 to Ehp6

Former Member
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Hi all,

We have ECC 6.0 Ehp5, Solman 7.10, APO 7.0, BW Abap (Netweaver 7.3) Systems.

We are planning to upgrade to ECC 6.0 ehp5 to ehp6 only. What are pre and post activities.

Please guide and help to go for this upgrade.

Thanks & Regards

Rao

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former_member182657
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Hi Rao,


We are planning to upgrade to ECC 6.0 ehp5 to ehp6 only. What are pre and post activities.

To upgrade system from EHP5 to EHP6 you need to generated stack.xml file from solution manager & can proceed with latest available SUM tool from SMP.You could also refer SAP Notes


Note 1064635 - SAP ERP Enhancement Packages SP Stacks Release Info Note

Note 1496212 - EHP6 for SAP ERP 6.0 SP stacks - Release & Information Note

Note 1566412 - Enhancement package 6 for SAP ERP 6.0 Required SWC

Note 1388258 - Version Interoperability within the SAP Business Suite

With all refer SAP Upgrade guides.

Regards,

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former_member182657
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You could consider Upgrade Dependency Analyzer as shared by

Former Member
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Hi Rao,

Please refer to upgrade guide. you have got plenty of activity to do.

1. Stack file which you need to generate from solution manager

2. Download the Correct /latest SUM tool

3. download those patches.

4. Download the kernel

5. Copy them at appropriate please

6. Initiate SUM

7. Provide the inputs, with no of jobs, passwords, some passwords from notes.

8. Create NewTablespace and extend other when required

9. Backup before and after

10. Plan for downtime

11. Plan for shodow instance.

12. SGEN

13. Stats

14. Make sure about the transports.

This is just some of the task overview.


Cheers,

Deepanshu Sharma

Former Member
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Hi All,

Thanks a lot to all for providing me the required info.

I have a small doubt Do we need to do any update/patches to the existing systems?(APO,BW & solman)

Regards

Rao

alichtenau
Advisor
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Hi Rao,

this can be checked by the Upgrade Dependency Analyzer. Please check below URL:

System dependency - Technology Troubleshooting Guide - SCN Wiki

Best regards,
Andreas

former_member182657
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do any update/patches to the existing systems?

If required systems are completely managed under Solution Manager then you need not to perform any patch up-dations as complete will be taken care by Solution Manager & will generate stack.xml with required patches for the system.

Regards,

alichtenau
Advisor
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Hi Rao,

regarding the Pre- and Post activities please check the Upgrade guides. They contain the needed information. You can find the upgrade guides as below:

Upgrade documentation - Technology Troubleshooting Guide - SCN Wiki

Please also check below document which contains steps you should check before the Upgrade:

http://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/download/attachments/394109089/Presentation.pdf?version=1&modificationD...

Best regards,
Andreas