Solution Manager 7.2 Information

[Former Member]

Hi

I heard about SAP is going to release Solution Manager 7.2 in 2015. Is this true? Anyone has information about the same like release date, about new features available with Solution Manager 7.2 version. I tried to google it but unfortunately unable to find the information.

Best regards.

Shirish.

[estoddard · Accepted solution]

Hello Shirish:

The SAP Solution Manager Product Roadmap presentation has been updated with details on the planned 7.2 release. The presentation can be accessed here:

http://service.sap.com/roadmaps -> Product and solution roadmaps -> Database and Technology - > Foundation -> SAP Solution Manager.

Here is a direct link to the file (SAP credentials required)

http://service.sap.com/~sapidb/011000358700001435482012E.pdf

The product roadmap is visible to all SAP customers and can be shared. Thanks.

[andreas_linn]

Hi,

Is there anything new about a planned date when solman 7.2 is released for customer?

regards

Andreas

[achmad_dimyati5]

Based on Early Adopter Care Program, it seems another two months.

Best Regards,

Achmad

[RobA]

Based on support stack info - Schedules for maintenance deliveries (Support Packages and Support Package Stacks) | SAP Support Por...

SP3 is to be released in August (week 31) I believe SP3 will be the GA release version.

But you can get it now with SP2 if you join early adopter care program (aka ramp-up)

[andreas_linn]

thank you very much for information

[andreas_linn]

thank you very much for information

[Former Member]

hi there,

Ramp up is now only available for those that are also implementing S/4Hana it would seem. Fingers crossed no more slippage for GA.

[antonio_vacas]

Hi

Any update on the final date of general availability? SAP presentations made a lot of emphasis in being available after H1 of 2016

[Farid]

Hello,

We are deploying S/4Hana We are also waiting for SOLM 7.2 to be releaed to customers ..

Any date in sight ...?

Thanks

[Former Member]

Should be second week of August 2016

according to SAP sources

Oded

[estoddard]

Hello, the plan is to release SAP Solution Manager 7.2 SP03 to all customers in mid-August, but we cannot guarantee this date, as much depends on the feedback from customers in the Early Adopter Care (Ramp-Up) program. In the meantime, I recommend checking out the SAP Solution Manager 7.2 SP02 with S/4HANA Best Practice content available in the SAP Cloud Appliance Library (http://cal.sap.com). This system also contains a sample project plan that was downloaded from the Roadmap Viewer (https://roadmapviewer-supportportal.dispatcher.hana.ondemand.com//#)

[christoph_schrimpf88]

SolMan 7.2 SP3 is now available

[Wallace]

For Ramp-Up?  Or GA?

[christoph_schrimpf88]

https://support.sap.com/solution-manager/processes/maintenance-management/maintenance-planner.html

Released for end user.

You can find the SolMan 7.2  in maintenance planner since this morning.

[Wallace]

GREAT!!!  Thanks!

[achmad_dimyati5]

Hi Christoph,

Sorry for question, is this Solman 7.2 for any database? or we need to migrated to HANA eventually to use it for Production environment.

Also Do you  have any wiki or scn where we can ask further more related with upgrade to Solman 7.2 including migration HANA or some information like to confirm is it true HANA for SOLMAN 7.2 is free?

Thanks a lot.

Regards,

Achmad

[christoph_schrimpf88]

Try this SCN entry. Very interessting - but just for first Installation - no upgrade.

http://scn.sap.com/community/it-management/alm/solution-manager/blog/2016/02/16/solution-manager-72-...

And yes, Solution Manager 7.2 is anyDB. You can Oracle, MSSQL, HANA and so on.

And as I know, there is a free license for HANA DB usage.

-> Look at SAP Solution Manager Roadmap - slide 20

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/library/SAP%20Support%20Portal/support-programs-services/solutio...

[Farid]

Hello,

I can indeed see the SAP Solution MAnager 7.2 binaries now, but I have two questions :

Regarding the Support package equivalence of SAP Solution MAnager 7.2 SR1 : those binaires have been uploaded on May 2016 . Is it Solman 7.2 SP3 ...

Regarding Willy Introspcope Manager, I went through some sap notes and it appears that Willy Introscope Manager 10.1 is not yet visible on the sap support portal

Do you know when , it would be released ?

Thanks

Raoul

[christoph_schrimpf88]

Sorry, I´m not aware of this

[achmad_dimyati5]

Based on note 2285189, it should be there.

Please ask SAP to provide the access.

[Former Member]

Hi has Solution Manager 7.2 for hana been released yet for a new install for customers ?

I can't find the hana DVDs yet on the SMP

Regards

James

[christoph_schrimpf88]

Hi James,

You can check this with the maintenance planner.

When you have created the XML file for SWPM/SUM the download basket in SMP will be filled automaticly. I think the related DVDs will be downloaded, too... I didn´t check this.

Be aware of the dual stack split.

[estoddard]

Hi, I checked the SWDC and I do see Wily 10.1 is available for download as described in the SAP Note 2285189. If you still cannot access the download, please open a customer message.

[Farid]

Hello ,

Thanks for your answer ... but I just checked again, and it is not here

As per SAP note 2285189, Willy Introscope MAnager 10.1 and Willy Introscope MAnagement Modules should be available.

Currrently ,only Willy introscope Module is available :

Is there anyone else who could confim or deny by using his S-user account ?

Thank  you

[nomad]

You are correct I do not see MANAGER out there yet.....

Good old SAP - ha!

[Farid]

Thanks for the confirmation !

[patelyogesh]

I have contacted SAP on this and they came back with answer that we do not license for it

-Yogesh

[Former Member]

Hello Raoul,

did you install SolMan 72 SR1? If yes what version of ST component you got SP02 or SP03?

Thanks in advance.

Best Regards,

Mike

[Farid]

Hello Mike,

I installed the  SOL 7.2 version as illustrated in the screenshot : 7.2 SR1

Unfortunaly, it turned out to be the SP02 version, lot of stuff not working.

I am in the process of patching the abap and java systems to SP03.

Regards

[patelyogesh]

Hello Raoul,

This is product bug and I have high priority message open with SAP from last 2 and haf week and their development team working to fix this issue.

If you try to upgrade your solution manager 7.2 SR 1 to SPS03 through maintanance optimizer its not picking correct upgrade stack files.

Regards,

Yogesh

[Farid]

Hello Yogesh,

Actually, I used the  Maintenance Planner to generate the XML file ...as far as I understand it , the days of the MOPZ are definitely gone with SOL 7.2. (And it is a good news , always  throwing errors, or generating inconsitent queus, files)

I just finished updating abap and java systems to SP03.

It went fine.

Thanks and Regards

[patelyogesh]

Can you post screenshots of you ABAP and JAVA stacks versions here so I can take a look in to it.

Thanks in advance

Yogesh

[Farid]

Hello Yogesh,

It turns out that after upgrading though MAintenance planner to SAP Solution Manager 7.2 SPS03 ... I was still on SAP Solution Manager 7.2 SPS02 !

For some weird reasons, most of the Support Packages are not being picked up by the MAintenanced planner, even though there are no errors or discrepencies in system replication ...

Are you running into the same issue ?

Thanks

[former_member189797]

Hi Raoul,

Did you select SAP_UI 750 during stack generation. SPS03 is based on SAP_UI 750 and it has to be selected manually (as described in stack 03 note). If you do not select SAP_UI then queue calculation can go wrong which turns out as not calculating or removing the stack files from final calculated queue.

PS: It would be much better to create a new thread of your own than posting all issues in 1 thread which is already closed or marked as answer. 

Regards,
Gaurav

[patelyogesh]

Gaurav answerd it well...

[venkatesh_r]

Hello Raoul,

Did you have a look into the below note for corrections?

2328482 - Solution Manager 7.2 SP Stack 03: recommended corrections

Regards,

Venkatesh

[former_member265694]

Hello,

How is this launch going?  We are planning to migrate our solman 7.1 early next year.

This thread got a little quite, any news or updates?  Is there another thread I need to be watching for updates and/or the ramp-up of 7.2?

Thanks!

David

[estoddard]

Hello all:

I have created a new announcement post with the attached link to download the latest presentation and training file for the SAP Solution Manager 7.2 in CAL. We expect the system to be released very soon.

[Former Member]

Hi Evan

When will 7.2 be released in the Service marketplace for general download ?

Cheers

James

[RobA]

Its in Ramp-Up so I doubt anybody can answer that with a firm answer. Release dates on PAM always seem to move for any SAP product.

You can get early access now by applying here...  https://influence.sap.com/SAPSolutionManager72

[estoddard]

Hello everyone:

We plan to release SAP Solution Manager 7.2 in the Cloud Applicance Library this month. The appliance is being finalized now. It will be SAP Solution Manager 7.2 SP01 on SAP HANA, with a focus on allowing customers and partners to test-drive the solution documentation activation process and then experience the new solution documentation UI in the 7.2 system. This will be a 90-day trial solution for non-productive use.

In the future additional scenarios will be available and the system can be extended past 90 days with the purchase of a CAL subscription.

[Former Member]

Hi It was mentioned we might be able to use a productive version of Sol Man 7.2 on Hana Enterprise cloud.

Is this available for testing at all as it would Interest us using this productively.

James

[estoddard]

Hello, in December SAP is planning to make SAP Solution Manager 7.2 on support package stack 01 available as a free trial solution in the Cloud Applicance Library (CAL), more infomation is at https://cal.sap.com. The system will be build on Linux OS/HANA DB and will allow evaluation of the new solution documentation area. We will provide some sample projects based on our rapid-deployment solutions content, as well as an opportunity for customers to upload their own projects as transports to activate and view in the new UI.

In short, we create a master 7.2 SP01 system, save it as a 'solution' in the CAL solution catalog, and any user with an SCN account can create a CAL account and link an exisiting Amazon Web Services account to provide the infrastructure. You will log into your CAL homepage, select "SAP Solution Manager 7.2", and then the system will be copied to your AWS account segment and be ready in around 1 hour. You can then log onto the system and evaluate the documentation, for a small hourly fee to Amazon.

You are the owner and administrator of the system, you can perform backups and make changes, and use it for training as well. The system can also be suspended when not in use to save costs. It's very flexible and fast, and we estimate that this will be very popular as you can create an evaluation system quickly and cheaply.

[Former Member]

Hi, Sounds perfect !

[achmad_dimyati5]

Hi Evan,

How about on Premises, when it will be released?

Thanks a lot,

Regards,

Achmad

[former_member264905]

Hello Evan,

I just checked out the CAL Solutions under cal.sa.com, but was not able to find anything like Solution Manager 7.2. Was the solution already released, if not when will it be made available?

Best Regards

Alexander Zimmer, BMW Group

[Former Member]

Hi Shirish,

because SAP Solution Manager 7.2 will be based on SAP CRM 7.03, we just need to look at the release notes of CRM 7.02 + 7.03 to find out which new features will be available in SAP Solution Manager 7.2. Of course there will be a lot of features which are not based on SAP CRM, but expecially SAP Solution Manager IT Service Management and Change Request Management will benefit from the new SAP CRM 7.0 Enhancement Packages 2 and 3.

The SAP Solution Manager Product Roadmap already informs us about some of these features. But however some features will never be mentioned by SAP Product Management because of several reasons.

If you want to get knowledge of all "hidden" CRM Features, you have to review the SAP CRM release notes or my summary:

http://www.hybrid-eichhoernchen.de/sap-solution-manager-7-2-itsm-charm-features/

Kind regards,
Peter

[achmad_dimyati5]

Hi Peter,

Thanks for your information. If you don't mind, do you have the article in English. I tried with Google translate and it's confusing.

Regards,

Achmad

[nomad]

Correct Q4 2015, (which has already moved twice now) but I doubt they will even hit that date.

My understanding is it will now run on HANA (maybe other DBs but push is HANA for free) and no more dual stack...so major changes

[estoddard]

Hello Chris:

SAP Solution Manager 7.2 entered customer validation in Q1 2015, the current plan is for ramp-up to start in Q4.

SAP HANA will be an option, but other databases will be supported as well. SAP HANA will be included in the usage rights for the platform, so no additional license fees will be necessary. We will be separating the ABAP and Java stacks during the upgrade process, so that we are more in line with the global SAP stack strategy.

We have updated the product roadmap presentation on the SAP Solution Manager homepage (http://support.sap.com/solutionmanager) with this new version:

https://support.sap.com/content/dam/library/SAP%20Support%20Portal/support-programs-services/solutio...

The presentation at the /roadmaps site will also be updated as well with similar content.

[former_member228464]

Following link says Q4 2015.

https://websmp206.sap-ag.de/~sapidb/011000358700000968542012E

[Former Member]

Hi Divyanshu & Karthik,

Thanks for the information provided.

Best regards,

Shirish.

[Former Member]

Hi Shirish,

Please check the below link for SAP Support Package Stacks Maintenance Schedule -

https://websmp210.sap-ag.de/~form/sapnet?_FRAME=CONTAINER&_OBJECT=011000358700000294692004

Ramp -up details:(Active and up-coming Ram up details)

SAP Service Marketplace - SAP Ramp-Up

Rg,

Karthik

[divyanshu_srivastava3]

Hi Shirish,

Any new release or version are bound to come 1st in ramp up. So wait and check the ramp up space for anu such update.

Divyanshu