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The Maintenance Optimizer installs enhancement packages for product versions. Enhancement packages provide new functions and updates for product versions. They are provided by SAP at regular intervals.

Prerequisites

  • You have a product version for which SAP offers an enhancement package.

  • For information about the technical prerequisites, see Prerequisites.

Procedure

Step 1: Plan Maintenance

  1. Create a new maintenance transaction

  2. Assign a product version, for which you want to install the enhancement package, to the maintenance transaction.

    The Maintenance Optimizer displays all the systems assigned to the product version.

  3. Select the checkboxes for the systems into which you want to install an enhancement package. Choose Continue.

Step 2: Select Files

  1. Choose Enhancement Package Installation.

  2. To automatically determine the download files, choose Find Download Files.

  3. The Maintenance Optimizer shows five additional steps, in which you can select the files to download.

Step 2.1: Choose stack

  1. The Maintenance Optimizer lists all enhancement package releases which can be installed for the product version specified in step 1, in a drop-down list. Select an enhancement package release.

  2. The download manager proposes a target stack, in a drop-down field under the Enhancement Package release. A compatible support package stack is usually installed when you install an enhancement package. Choose the version of the target stack.

  3. The technical uses are listed.

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    Technical usages are subcomponents of an enhancement package release. They group enhancement package instances that must always be installed together so that new business functions can be used.

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  4. You can only select the technical usages in the list for whose installation the prerequisites are fulfilled. Technical usages whose required system instances are not flagged as relevant in the SAP Solution Manager system administration, cannot be selected for the enhancement package release, and are not highlighted.

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    If you place the cursor on the name of a technical usage, its detailed information is displayed. This comprises the instances assigned, the required main instances and a system list. If you put the cursor on a technical usage which is not available, system instances which are not flagged as relevant in the system landscape, are indicated by a red star. For more information, see Prerequisites.

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  5. Set the checkboxes of the desired technical usages. Choose Get Download Files for the Stack Version.

  6. The Maintenance Optimizer displays the maintenance files in three successive lists:

Step 2.2: Select OS/DB-dependent files

  1. The maintenance optimizer shows a detailed list. It is sorted by operating systems, for which the possible databases are specified.

  2. Choose files for your operating system/database combination.

  3. Choose Continue, to display the second list.

Step 2.3: Select files with no stack

  1. If your selection contains files with no stack, the maintenance optimizer shows them with no stack.

  2. Check the selection. Deselect the files which you do not need, or are not appropriate.

  3. You can select files to download from the download basket, manually. Choose Select Download Basket Files.

  4. Choose Continue.

Step 2.4: Check files with stack

Check the automatic maintenance optimizer selection. All displayed files are in the selected stack.

The maintenance optimizer proposes the highest currently available support package for download, for system components with no support package stack.

Note Note

Support packages for which there is no delivery package in the SAP Service Marketplace, are flagged with a red star.

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Choose Continue.

Step 2.5: Confirm selection

Specify how the selected files are to be downloaded:

  • You can download with the Software Lifecycle Manager.

    It loads the files into a central directory, from which they can be installed quickly. Continue by downloading the files with the download manager or the software lifecycle manager.

  • You can download with the download basket.

    The files are first put in the download basket, and then downloaded to your local computer. Continue with Step 3: Download Files. For further information, see Approve and Download Files into Download Basket.

After selecting the download type, choose Select Download Type.

Note Note

A package configuration file containing your selections, is generated, in XML format. Once you confirm the selection in step 2.5, this file is stored in the database in the SAP Solution Manager and at operating system level in the Electronic Parcel Service Inbox of the transport directory.

For further information, see the security guide in the SAP Service Marketplace, under http://service.sap.com/instguides. The SAP upgrade tools read this configuration file and creates the instances.

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Steps 3-5 Download Files, Implement, and End Maintenance

Information about steps 3, 4 and 5 start at Step 3: Download Files under Maintenance Transaction with Installation of a Support Package Stack.