When you have set up and applied the filter (see Change and Use Filter), the SAP Note information is displayed in the tabs, sorted by SAP Note type. The numbers in parentheses indicate the number of SAP Notes.
Note
Only the SAP Note types that you are authorized to use are displayed. For more information, see the SAP Solution Manager Security Guide in the SAP Service Marketplace, under
, under 4 Operations.Use a filter to display the SAP Notes for the selected system.
Choose the tab with the SAP Note type for which you want to display the SAP Notes.
SAP Note Type | Explanation |
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Security Notes | SAP Notes of category Security. |
HotNews | SAP HotNews, that is, SAP Notes with priority 1 (very high). These SAP Notes explain how to avoid or resolve problems that lead to loss of data or crash an SAP system. |
Performance Notes | SAP Notes of category Performance to improve your system performance. |
Legal Changes | SAP Notes of category Legal Change, Announcement of Legal Change, and Correction of Legal Function about changes in legal regulation. |
Correction/Patch Notes | SAP Notes containing program code corrections (ABAP) or patches (Java). |
Note
When a filter is applied to a technical system for the first time, no SAP Note information is displayed, even though there may be relevant SAP Notes. A message tells you that you must perform either a manual or automatic update.
The update is necessary because when you apply a filter, the SAP Note information is loaded from SAP Solution Manager rather than directly from the SAP Support Portal. Only SAP Note information that has already been transferred can be displayed. The date of the last update is displayed in the row Last Refresh.
To update the SAP Note information, you have the following options:
Activate automatic update (see Update Notes Automatically). The SAP Notes are automatically updated on a regular basis.
Use automatic SAP Note information update for all monitored systems.
Update the SAP Note information manually. Choose Refresh. Update the SAP Note information manually if the monitored solutions have been changed recently or if you expect new SAP Notes for a system, for example, because of a security patch.
The SAP Note information for the last month is transferred from the SAP Support Portal to SAP Solution Manager, where it is then displayed. Depending on the size of the update, this may take a while.
Depending on the system (ABAP or Java) and the view, the following pushbuttons are displayed in the table header.
Pushbutton | Explanation |
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Display | Displays the SAP Notes from the application component, the software component, or as a list |
Display Status | Displays the SAP Notes for the selected status (see Status Function). |
Set status | Assigns the selected status to the selected SAP Notes (see Status Function). |
Expand All | Opens all SAP Note groups. |
Collapse All | Closes all SAP Note groups. |
Select All | Selects all SAP Notes. |
Deselect All | Deselects all SAP Notes. |
Create Change Request | Opens a dialog box to create a request for change (see Create and Display Requests for Change). |
Select Java Patches | Opens a dialog box to put Java patches in the download basket. This pushbutton is only displayed when a JAVA system is selected (see Manage Java Patches). |
Create Maintenance Transaction | Opens a dialog box to create a maintenance transaction in the Maintenance Optimizer. This pushbutton is only displayed when a JAVA system is selected (see Manage Java Patches). |
Download Notes | Opens a dialog box to download and implement the selected SAP Notes (see Download Notes). |
Show Object List | Opens a dialog box to display the technical objects that are changed by implementing the selected SAP Notes (see Show Object List). |
Start BPCA Analysis | Opens a dialog box to start the analysis in the Business Process Change Analyzer for the selected SAP Notes (see Determine Affects on Business Process). |
Export | Opens the dialog to create an Excel file of information about the displayed SAP Notes (see Export Note Information). |
Information is displayed in the columns of the overview list for each SAP Note. The following table provides an overview of this information.
Column | Explanation |
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Software Component/Application Component/SAP Note Number | Application or software component (depending on the selected view) and SAP Note number |
Version | Application or software component name (depending on the selected view) and version number of the SAP Note |
Short text | Short text of the SAP Note. Choose the short text to open the SAP Note. |
Release Date/Date | SAP Note release date |
Status | Status of the SAP Note (see Status Function) |
Category | Category of the SAP Note |
Priority | Priority of the SAP Note |
User | User who last changed the status of the SAP Note (see Status Function) |
Automatic Instructions | Indicates whether the SAP Note can be implemented automatically in the managed system with the Note Assistant to estimate the effort required to implement the SAP Note. |
Manual Instructions | Indicates whether the SAP Note must be partially implemented manually to estimate the effort required to implement the SAP Note. |
Kernel Note | Indicates whether the SAP kernel is affected. |
Support Package Name | Support package containing the correction in the SAP Note. |
Application Component | Application component to which the SAP Note is assigned |
Software Component | Software component to which the SAP Note is assigned |
SP Relevance | Support package to which the SAP Note is related or if the SAP Note applies to all available support packages. |
The overview header and footer show filter criteria and further information about the SAP Notes.
Field | Explanation |
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Technical System | The technical system filter criterion. |
System Type | The system type filter criterion. |
Released from Released to | Shows the period in which the displayed SAP Notes were released. |
System Recommendations: Report | Creates reports about all technical systems in the solution. |
BPCA Results | Shows how often the Business Process Change Analyzer analysis has already been performed. |
Change Request | If you have already created requests for change, opens the list of requests for change. You can then open the short text or the request for change itself. |