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Jun 09, 2020 at 11:21 AM

EHP8 upgrade datasource behaviour Netweaver 7.31 & BW4HANA2.0

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Hi Experts,

Our SAP Competence center is planning a EHP8 Upgrade.
We have a sandbox system with a fresh client copy of productive ERP which got upgraded to EHP8. On this sandbox all the testing will be done.

We from the Business Intelligence area also have to contribute with our testings. Should be straight forward - is not the first EHP we're doing. But certain things are strange to me. I wanted to share so maybe there is somebody out there who has made similar experience.

Activities so far:

connected the Sandbox EHP8 to our Netweaver system (old heritage)

  • Sandbox EHP8 system connected via RSA1
  • replicated data sources, works fine. But all data sources are in 'D' version. I tried with programs (e.g RSDS_DATASOURCE_ACTIVATE_ALL) to reactivate. But didn't work. Another expert told me that this requires a 1 by 1 activation since its a new system.
    => hence not a problem for us as the real upgrade will be done on the already connected systems. And there data sources are active- right??
  • data load itself works fine if i manually activate one particular data source for testing

connected the Sandbox EHP8 to our new BW4HANA2.0

  • Sandbox EHP8 system connected via wizard on Hana Studio (eclipse).
  • replication of data sources also creates a 'D' version. I remember this was different. We connected the source-systems in 2019 on older SP level and the replication and activation for all data sources was done within one wizard.
  • Also here the load works fine if i pick one particular datasource and load data through it.

My fear is that i have to replicate & activate all data sources when we do the EHP8 upgrade with the real systems. Especially i saw that the Business Content Type and Release Assignment (optional): SDE 740 has changed to Business Content Type and Release Assignment (optional): SDE 750.

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For cut over i am aware that delta queues have to be emptied beforehand etc. there are good step flows available so on this we think everything is good. It is just the question with the datasources.

Happy to hear from somebody.

Sven

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