System Recommendations 
This is an SAP Solution Manager function in the Change Management work center. System recommendations are SAP notes relevanten for a technical system, information about these notes, and their actions.
Note
When you access note information with system recommendations, you perform maintenance activities such as the upgrade and implementation of support, enhancement or legal change packages in the Maintenance Optimizer (see Maintenance Optimizer).
Note
The HotNews function has been integrated into the system recommendations, and is no longer independently available. If you used HotNews, you need a migration to take over its filters.
Integration
The system recommendations are integrated as follows:
System recommendations determine the valid notes for the selected technical system in the SAP Support Portal, and the associated information is transferred to the SAP Solution Manager.
The system recommendations are integrated into Change Request Management. You can, for example, create a change request directly, after selecting relevant notes.
In system recommendations, you download ABAP notes, to implement them with the Note Assistant.
For non-ABAP notes, you can confirm loadable Java patches in the Maintenance Optimizer.
If you use the Business Process Change Analyzer (BPCA), the system can determine the test scope for selected ABAP notes.
Features
The following system recommendations functions are available:
Display and download notes, and implement them
Display results by application or application component, software component or as a list. In the list display, you can filter and sort the results.
Assign a status to an entry and display note information with the status
Analyze the affects of implementin a note has on the system and business processes
Create a change request or select a Java patch, and create a maintenance transaction
Specify background service to automatically update note information