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Aug 29, 2007 at 11:09 PM

Looking for "normal" runtime for applying SPS to EP 7.0

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Hello,

We have been running 7.0 on Windows 2003/MSSQL 2000 since Jan 2006 (we were ramp-up customer). We have SPS 11 now and are planning on applying SPS 12 soon. From our past experience with applying support package stacks (from SPS 5 to SPS 11, one level at a time), we experienced long runtime during the application in JSPM. Easily it took us 9-12 hours to finish patching the whole stack. On our EP systems, we patched a total of 143 .sca files for various ERP Java (e.g. XSS)/Portal/BI-JAVA/ADS etc components in the last round of SPS 11 upgrade. In addition, the application can't be done in one round, and some components just erred out and we had to restart JSPM a few times before it finally finished patching the whole queue. We are looking for performance improvement/tuning this time and we have been searching OSS notes and SDN for any tuning tips, but just can't find anything that is relevant.

However, in the blog "SAP NetWeaver Portal 7.0 after SP12" by Michael Nicholls, he mentioned that it took him about 7 hours to complete the SPS 12 application. So now we were wondering if 7-12 hours runtime for applying one SPS is "normal".

Can anyone patching EP 7.0 with the later SPS share your runtime experience?

Thanks,

Cary