Component Information 

Purpose

The SLD server contains component information about all existing software modules, as well as their combination options and dependencies. This information represents the basis for the description of the system landscape.

SAP provides component information about all SAP software modules. You can get the current model data from the master component information provided by SAP.

Features

The component description provides you with the following information:

·        Software product and software component attributes

¡        mySAP.com components

¡        Software components

¡        Releases and Support Packages

·        Dependencies:

¡        Supported platforms, versions of operation systems, databases, and so on

¡        Combination options and integration matrix

Example

SAP Basis 6.20 is a software component. It is registered in the component information as a CIM instance of the class SAP_SoftwareComponent. The entry contains important information about this component (date of implementation and end of support, for example). In addition, all existing Support Packages for the components are registered as associations.