SAP Add-On Installation Tool (SAINT) (SAP Library - SAP Add-On Installation Tool (SAINT))

SAP Add-On Installation Tool (SAINT)

Use

SAP offers a wide range of add-ons that you can use to enhance your standard SAP System. These add-ons can be Industry Solutions, plug-ins, or customer-specific development projects. Many of these add-ons only contain a small number of objects, however, you must take several import conditions into account.

An operating system-based process for installing or upgrading these add-ons in an SAP System would have been to complicated; instead, we developed the Transaction SAINT. This transaction lets you install and upgrade add-ons directly from the SAP System. You do not need to access the operating system or restart the SAP System.

SAP also offers Preconfigured Systems (PCS), which are also installed with the Transaction SAINT (as of SPAM/SAINT Update Version 11). A PCS reduces the amount of work needed to install and customize and industry-specific solution.

You can also use Transaction SAINT to process any compressed files (*.CAR) that you have downloaded to your computer from SAPNet. SAINT can transfer these files to the application server, decompress them and then install them (as of SPAM/SAINT Update Version 11).

This transaction is updated frequently, which means that it is only available in the language English and German.

Note that you can only use this transaction under SAP GUI for Java and SAP GUI for Windows.

Prerequisites

The Transaction SAINT is available as of Release 4.0B, and is delivered in its own Support Package, the SPAM/SAINT Update.

We enhance and improve the transaction constantly, and recommend that you always import the latest version from SAPNet before you make an installation or upgrade.

Functions

The transaction checks the import prerequisites, such as the system release, the Support Package level of the individual software components, and whether other add-ons are being used.

To simplify the import process, the complete installation is first put together in the customer system from the add-on installation package, any Support Packages that are needed, and any Conflict Resolution Transports (CRTs).

The installation itself is a process that can be restarted, in a similar way to the import of Support Packages.

Activities

Loading Installation Packages

Installing and Upgrading Add-Ons Using SAINT

Installing a Preconfigured System (PCS) Using SAINT

Transferring and Decompressing Compressed Files from the Frontend (as of SPAM/SAINT Update Version 11)

Modification Adjustment

Checking Logs