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Upgrading from SP13 to EHP7. SUM indicates that we have to be at SP14 - help!

Former Member
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Hi gurus,

Before the ECC upgrade, we confirmed there were no restrictions going from SP13 to EHP7.  When trying to do the upgrade, there is a restriction with their Software Upgrade Manager (SUM) that indicates we need to be at SP14 - but it's a bit too late we're in the middle of the upgrade.

Can anyone tell us why there is a restriction and some alternatives to bypass that restriction please?

Thank you

Tansu

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Former Member
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Hello Tansu,

We had the same problem, and when we reported the error, SAP created the note 1942969.

After some conversation, they applied the fix by themselves on our first upgrade test cycle.

On the second upgrade run we created the table manualy before starting the SUM, and we didn't had the error.

Regards,

Bruno

Former Member
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Thank you Bruno, do you remember we if what you created was replaced by the sap delivered table juat after the upgrade? Or remained unchanged?

Thank you

Tansu

Former Member
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The table remained unchanged after the upgrade.

But be awere that this solution wasn´t provided by SAP, we folowed it on our own risk.

Regards,

Bruno

Former Member
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Thank You Bruno, Can you please tell us what version of SUM tool you have used during your upgrade?

With the latest version of SUM tool, SUM tool is validating the support patch requirement(for SP14) at the initial phase of upgrade during the extraction phase, and without applying support patches SUM tool is not moving further. Did you experienced this behavior ?

Appreciate your help.

Regards,

Surendra

Former Member
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Hello Surendra,

We used SUM SP9 pl0

But we had the error in SHADOW_IMPORT_INC.

We never had any error regarding sp requirments.

SAP probably included that new check in subsequent releases.

Regards,

Bruno

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ibrahim_yooseff
Participant
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Hi,

I am new to SAP basis. How may days it will take to Upgrade ECC 6 EHP 4 to EHP 7 upgrade. I mean the entire project duration for a mid sized company with 200 users.

Regards,

Ibrahim 

former_member189797
Active Contributor
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Hello Tansu,

You will need to update the netweaver stack to at least Netweaver 7.0 SPS14 before you could start the upgrade to EHP7 . If not you might face the issues with some important tables as missing because they were delievered with SPS14 .

1942969 - table SFW_BF_SW does not exist on database

Regards,

Gaurav

Former Member
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Hi Gaurav,

Yes it's the solution provided, but we don't want to do that and trying to see if there is any other way to bypass this step

Thank you

Tansu

former_member189797
Active Contributor
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hello Tansu,

what is the error you are facing?
In phase SHADOW_IMPORT_INC or SUMCHK ??

Regards,
Gaurav

Former Member
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Hi Gaurav,  (Responding on behalf of Tansu)

This error is happening during SUMCHK (during extraction phase).

Best Regards,

Surendra

Reagan
Advisor
Advisor
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Could you provide the trace logs and the error message please ?

Regards

RB

Former Member
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Hello Reagan,

We are performing SAP upgrade from ECC 6.0 to EHP7, our current BASIS & ABAP patch levels are on SP13. SUMis looking for BASIS Patch level to be on SP14, The reason SUM is looking for SP14 is described in the following SAP note - 1942969. ( I copied and pasted below)

If we have to apply SP14 prior to Upgrade then we would have to plan for two production down times one for SP14 Upgrade and another one for EHP7 Upgrade, which we didn't plan for

I assume there should be a way - there is always one

Appreciate your help.

Cheers

Tansu


Symptom

1) EHP6 installation stop at SHADOW_IMPORT_INC phase. Following error is written into SHDALLIMP.ELG.

4 ETW000 [ dbtrtab ,00000] ***LOG BZA=>table SFW_BF_SW does not exist on database 33 1.625057

2EETW000 sap_dext called with msgnr "2":

2EETW000 db call info

2EETW000 function: db_setget

2EETW000 fcode: RT_SETB (65535)

2EETW000 tabname: SFW_BF_SW

2EETW000 len: 31

2EETW000 key: CCARD_KEYV A

2EETW000 retcode: 2

1 ETP111 exit code : "12

2) EHP6 installation stop at PREP_INPUT/SUMCHK phase.

# Error message set: 'Source release 700 SP 13 needs at least SP 14 for update scenarios with target '731'. Repeat the module

from the beginning to check again.'

Cause

Enhancement package 6 installation requires NetWeaver 7.0 with support package stack 14 or higher. NW7.0 SPS13 or lower does not contains

some important basis tables(i.e. SFW_BF_SW). However, SUM expects these tables exist in system before EHP6 installation.

Update: If target release is ECC6.0 EHP7(NW7.4) and source system is ECC6.0(NW7.0), the support package stack of Netweaver of source

system need be SPS14 or higher as well.

Resolution

1. reset current EHP installation.

2. import ECC 6.0 support package stack 12 which contains NW7.0 SPS14.

3. start EHP6 installation again.

Cheers

Tansu

Reagan
Advisor
Advisor
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Bad luck.

If there was a work around then that would have been mentioned in the SAP note.

Unfortunately you have to start allover again.

Regards

RB