Patch Strategy for SAP NetWeaver Mobile

Use

SAP provides the mobile-related patches between support package stacks (SPS). Patches are provided for the following components:

  • SAP NetWeaver Application Server

    The patches are available in the form of SAP Notes. The composite note for a particular support package provides information about these SAP Notes.

  • Mobile client

    You must download patches for the mobile client from the SAP Service Marketplace (Software Download Center).

SAP NetWeaver Application Server (Data Orchestration Engine)

SAP NetWeaver Mobile releases patches for the application server in the form of SAP Notes. For each support package stack, there is a composite note that provides central access to the latest corrections.

Mobile Client

With every patch release, two types of patches are delivered:

  • Full patch: This contains an up-to-date record of all the changes.

    To upgrade between patches that belong to different SPSs, you must apply the full patch to the mobile client.

  • Delta patch: This contains only the changes within a particular SPS release.

    To upgrade between patches that belong to the same SPS, you must apply this patch. This patch is a cumulative patch, which means it contains all the changes from a particular SPS release.

To upgrade the mobile client from 7.10 to 7.3 along with FULL_PATCH, WD_PATCH_1 and WD_PATCH_2 needs to be applied.

To help understand the use of the two patches, the following example is provided.

You want to upgrade to:

You must apply:

SPS 02 Patch 3

Delta patch for SPS 02 Patch 3

SPS 02 Patch 5

Delta patch for SPS 02 Patch 5

SPS 04 Patch 2

Full patch for SPS 04 Patch 2