Difference Between Patches And Support Packs

[Former Member]

Hi Experts,

I have one doubt,

1.... I want to Know Difference Between the Patches And the Support Packs

2...What is the Use of these Two??????????Is it Necessary to Apply these Two??

I asked This Question in Number of Queries...................

Please Let me Know All the Above Mentioned Queries

Regards

Khanna

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Rajesh,

Patch is nothing but an update to an existing functionality of a particular case.

Service Pack is nothing but an update to the whole functionality of XI.

This is the basic difference between these two.

---Satish

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thank you for ur Quick Reply Satish.

And one more thing i want to clarify with you ...

Here i am going to Install XI 3.0 with WAS 6.20.

1......I installed j2sdk1.4.2_12

2......Installed Oracle 9i

<b>Question1:-</b> Do i need to Patch it to Oracle 9.2.0.7.0?????????

Or I can do it Later Also???????(At Present I dont Have it)

I Installed Up to Here.

3.....After this I wil Install WAS 6.20 with ABAP + JAVA Stack

( I have Doc for this).......

4....After this I wil Install XI 3.0

I think this is the XI Installtion.....

<b>Question2:-</b> Is this way of Installation is Correct?????

<b>Question3:-</b>After Completion of All these We should do the XI Post Installtion...Right?????

<b>Question4:-</b> When can we Apply the Support Packs And Patches??????? In the Post Installation Or After the Post Installation?????

Please Give me the Right Direction To Install the XI Successfully.......

Helpful ANS Wil be REWARD Points

Regards

Khanna

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Rajesh,

I am not sure of installation of WAS 6.20. But for 6.40 what you have mentioned is correct. You can install and then you can apply patches if required.

Also once the installation is compelted then you can apply support packs. But I would recommend whenever you are installing then only apply the appropriate support packs rather than doing this after the installation. Usually this happens after some amount of time. Once the installtion is done you will do the post installtion steps using the template installer.

For this patches and service packs check the appropriate installation documents from the service market place.

---Satish

[VijayKonam · Accepted solution]

Rajesh,

You would post installation steps even after the installation of the ABAP+Java statck and before installing XI. That it, you have to configure TMS and a separate client for installing XI. Normally XI is not installed on one of the default clients created during the R/3 installation.

Hope this one helps.

Vijay

[Former Member]

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