Support Pack Upgrade Strategy

[Former Member]

Hi Experts,

I am trying to develop a strategy for testing SP upgrades in development and "okaying" them for migration into production.

What steps do you normally take to ensure your system works as intended and the update is really for production?

I would think to go through and verify all of the changes from the SAP note which contains the SP detail, but what else? It is often the case that implementing a SP has an effect on other functionality.

Please share your thoughts and experiences.

Thanks,

Grace Rae

[Former Member]

Hi Grace,

Firstly, this question should be posted in the Basis forums You will have more experts who dealt with these activities there.

Regarding the support pack upgrade strategy, we would normally implement it in the test systems, and closely monitor the system performance in peak and normal hours, background jobs, and any other issues that are highlighted during the monitoring period. If there are no issues reported by the functional testing team, we will go ahead implementing it in production system.

Hope this helps!

Regards,

Raghu