Question on Java SPS and .xml stack file

[symon_braunbaer]

Dear Experts,

I have a little weird situation here and I'd kindly like to ask for your help and advice.

There is a NetWeaver 7.4 system at SPS10, which suprisingly is dual stack!

Now I need to apply SPS12 to it and the result is weird:

While on the ABAP stack everything seems to be OK, there is a strange situation

with Java. Just 5 components are showing version 7.40.12:

All the other components, down to the bottom are 7.40.11. Now the question is,

whether this is normal behaviour and MOPZ is checking compatibility and only

SP11 of those components is released and compatible with SPS12 ABAP, or

there is something wrong with the Solution Manager and MOPZ is calculating

nonsense ?

I also did an experimental MOPZ transaction to SPS14 and it calculates those

5 listed components as SPS13 and all the others as SPS12.

The only problem I could think of, was the CIM content and it's pretty old, from

april 2015, but I am not allowed to update it (yet).

Please kindly advise on how to proceed!

Just in case, I downloaded SP12 for all the other components and I am ready

to patch the system once again, but, as I said, my question is, whether this is

really needed and SPS12 really means having all the components at SP12, or

MOPZ knows what it's doing and if it calculates SP11, then this has been tested

by SAP and is guaranteed to run without issues.

Many thanks in advance!

[LutzR · Accepted solution]

Hi Symon, the BI-xy components are kind of a separate package (BI-JAVA) and might be of a different SP level than the rest of JAVA. According to note "1645590 - Java/Server SPs dependencies (and SupportDeskTool)" BI JAVA SP Level might be maximum of two levels higher than AS JAVA.

You are probably aware that SAP has started to fool us with AS JAVA version numbers. Currently SAP is leaving out every second AS JAVA SP.

This is real fun :

• ABAP SP15 matches JAVA SP13 + BI JAVA SP13 to SP15
• ABAP SP14 matches JAVA SP12 + BI JAVA SP12 to SP14
• ABAP SP13 matches JAVA SP12 + BI JAVA SP12 to SP14
• ABAP SP12 matches JAVA SP11 + BI JAVA SP11 to SP13
• ABAP SP11 matches JAVA SP11 + BI JAVA SP11 to SP13

So this might be correct when applying SP12:

AS ABAP SP12 + AS JAVA SP11 + BI-JAVA SP12

But I would never dare to give you a guarantee for this .

Good luck,

Lutz

[hemanth2]

Below screenshot from SAP KBA2210959

provides more clarity on this:

Kind Regards,
Hemanth

[symon_braunbaer]

Many thanks to all of you for the great answers!! It's very hard to choose whom to grant the correct answer. Lutz has answered first 🙂

[former_member185239]

Dear Symon,

This is not weird as SAP is providing SP 11 for SPS 12 stack but your BI* component will be on 12 as per the stack calculation.

So your implementation is correct.

You can check the sapnote 1645590  suggested by Lutz Rottman.

With Regards

Ashutosh Chaturvedi