Enabling Note Assistant for TCI for SAP_BASIS Releases 731 Onwards

Prerequisites

  • Support Package Manager version 70 or higher.
  • You have the user authorization to SAP_OCS_STD to implement the TCIs.

Context

As said above, NA cannot consume TCIs by default. You should implement SAP Note 1995550 Information published on SAP site that includes TCIs for the NA enablement. The SAP Note 1995550 is also termed as bootstrap TCI SAP Note for higher SAP_BASIS releases (731 onwards).

You can implement TCIs with NA similar to SAP Notes. Once the NA is enabled for TCI consumption, any TCI can be implemented similar to SAP Notes ensuring seamless integration.

The following table provides information about the bootstrap TCI SAP Notes for SAP_BASIS releases 731 onwards along with the relevant TCI packages:

Releases

Bootstrap SAP Note

TCI Package

731

SAP Note 1995550 Information published on SAP site

SAPK73100DCPSAPBASIS

740

SAP Note 1995550 Information published on SAP site

SAPK74000FCPSAPBASIS

750

SAP Note 1995550 Information published on SAP site

SAPK750002CPSAPBASIS

751

SAP Note 1995550 Information published on SAP site

SAPK751002CPSAPBASIS

Procedure

  1. Implement the SAP Note 2344014 Information published on SAP site and SAP Note 2134534 Information published on SAP site if it is valid.
  2. Download the TCI:
    1. Search the SAP Note 1995550 Information published on SAP site that contains the Note Assistant enablement through https://support.sap.com/home.htmlInformation published on SAP site.
    2. Open the SAP Note 1995550 from the SAP ONE Support Launchpad screen.
    3. Choose Correction Instructions and select SAP_BASIS under the Software Component tab.
    4. On the Correction Instruction view, select the relevant software component version and choose Download.
      The system provides a SAR file. You have to save the downloaded SAR file into your directory.
    5. Log on into client 000 of the system you want to install the TCI.
    6. Upload the bootstrap TCI SAP Note to the system: Call transaction SPAM, then choose Start of the navigation pathSupport Package Next navigation step Load Packages Next navigation step From Front EndEnd of the navigation path and navigate to the directory, into which you downloaded the SAR file (for example, K70003CPSAPBASIS.SAR).
  3. Define Queue:
    1. In transaction SPAM, display the new support packages.
    2. From the OCS Package Directory: New Packages view, select the respective bootstrap TCI SAP Note.
    3. To define the TCI queue, click the Calculate Queue button.
    4. Import the TCI queue: Click the Import queue button to import the TCI queue.
    5. Confirm the queue

      Once the queue is imported, you are prompted with the next action - to go to the SAP Note Assistant (transaction snote) and download(Even if the Note is available download it again) and implement the bootstrap note. that the status of the SAP Note is completely implemented. Doing this will automatically confirm the SPAM queue.

  4. Verify the SAP Note Status: Verify if the status of the SAP Note 1995550 Information published on SAP site is set to Completely Implemented. Follow the steps provided in Enabling the System for SAP Note Transport-based Correction Instruction Rollback to get the complete functions of TCI.

Results

The Note Assistant tool is now able to consume TCIs for SAP_BASIS releases 731 onwards.
Related Links

  • For more information on known limitations and issues in TCI enablement SAP Note 1995550, see SAP Note 2345669 Information published on SAP site.

  • For more information, see Support Package Manager.