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BI 7.0 Upgrade Roadmap

Former Member

on ‎03-29-2008 4:21 PM

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Dear Colleagues,

Can some one direct me to the right place to find the BI 7.0 Upgrade Roadmap? Is it possible to upgrade the BW 3.0 or older to BI 7.0 directly?

Thanks & regards,

Joshua Z

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Former Member
‎08-01-2008 7:31 AM
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Dear Experts,

Information on BI Upgrade found to be useful. Our client is asking for upgrade of current version of SEM 3.5 also to SEM 6.0. This includes migration of Score Cards also. I failed to get any documentation on this. When I referred this query in SEM forum, I was guided to BI forum, as SEM is also part of BI only now.

Can any body guide us in the way of Upgrade of SEM 3.5 to SEM 6.0. I could find only SAP Note 855382. But not giving the path to be followed and the steps involved in migration of score cards (SEM CPM). BI is used only for reporting of SEM.

Can anybody suggest and help us out.

Thanking you in anticipation

Regards,

Ramakrishna

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‎06-12-2008 9:20 AM
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Hi,

Refer the below links

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/2e8e5288-0b01-0010-2ea8-bcd4df50...

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/8d1a0a3a-0b01-0010-eb82-99c4584c...

https://websmp204.sap-ag.de/swdc

installations and upgrades ---> entry by application component --> SAP frontend components --> SAP GUI for windows/java/ ITS

Below information gives clear picture

Upgrading BW 3.X to SAP NetWeaver 2004s BI

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/2e8e5288-0b01-0010-2ea8-bcd...

Upgrading BW 3.X to SAP NetWeaver 2004s BI

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/2e8e5288-0b01-0010-2ea8-bcd...

/people/prakash.darji/blog

/people/prakash.darji/blog

1. In Infosets now you can include Infocubes

2. The Remodeling transaction helps you add new key figure and characteristics and handles historical data as well without much hassle. This is only for info cube.

3. The BI accelerator (for now only for infocubes) helps in reducing query run time by almost a factor of 10 - 100. This BI accl is a separate box and would cost more. Vendors for these would be HP or IBM.

4. The monitoring has been improved with a new portal based cockpit. Which means you would need to have an EP guy in ur project for implementing the portal !

5. Search functionality hass improved!! You can search any object. Not like 3.5

6. Transformations are in and routines are passe! Yess, you can always revert to the old transactions too.

check these link's

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04s/helpdata/en/a4/1be541f321c717e10000000a155106/content.htm

In this one - check out slides 28-34

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/4487dd91-0b01-0010-eba1-bcd...

Check this link to get PDF doc on SAP BI

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/5ee3725b-0401-0010-e381-ac3...

Here is a powerpoint overview with illustrations of the differences between NW2004s (BI 7.0) and BW 3.5.x

http://csc-studentweb.lrc.edu/swp/Berg/Articles/NW2004s_what_is_new.ppt

check the presentaion

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/5c46376d-0601-0010-83bf-c4f...

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/5ee3725b-0401-0010-e381-ac3...

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/5c46376d-0601-0010-83bf-c4f...

http://csc-studentweb.lrc.edu/swp/Berg/BB_index_main.htm

http://csc-studentweb.lrc.edu/swp/Berg/articles/NW2004s_what_is_new.ppt

Web Blogs & Threads in SDN

/message/502929#502929 [original link is broken]

New Features in BI:

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/910aa7a7-0b01-0010-97a5-f28...

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/4487dd91-0b01-0010-eba1-bcd...

BI 7.0 reporting features

http://searchsap.techtarget.com/cgi-bin/rd.pl/ftID-1121728-ctID-1064004?//expert/KnowledgebaseAnswer...

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04s/helpdata/en/9d/24ff4009b8f223e10000000a155106/content.htm

Lessons Learnt - Upgrade

1)Convert Data Classes of InfoCubes. Set up a new data class as described in SAP OSS Note 46272.

2)Pay attention to the naming convention. Execute the RSDG_DATCLS_ASSIGN report.

3)Run the report RSUPGRCHECK to activate objects.

4)Upgrading ABAP and JAVA in parallel may cause issues. If there is no custom development on J2EE instance, it is recommended to drop the J2EE instance and re-install the latest J2EE instance after the upgrade.

5)Apply SAP OSS Note 917999 if you include the Support Patch 6 with the upgrade or you will get the error at PARCONV_UPG phase. When you upgrade to a product containing Basis 700, the phase PARCONV_UPG terminates. You included Basis Support Packages up to package level 6 (SAPKB70006) in the upgrade. The job RDDGENBB_n terminates with the error RAISE_EXCEPTION. In addition to this, the syslog contains the short dump TSV_TNEW_PAGE_ALLOC_FAILED. The program SDB2FORA terminates in the statement "LOOP AT stmt_tab". An endless loop occurs when the system creates the database table QCM8TATOPGA.

6)Apply the OSS note 917999 if you get the following error during PARCONV_UPG phase: PARCONV_UPG terminates with TSV_TNEW_PAGE_ALLOG_FAILED

Critical OSS Notes:

819655 – Add. Info: Upgrade to SAP NW 2004s ABAP Oracle

820062 - Oracle Database 10g: Patchsets/Patches for 10.1.0

839574 – Oracle database 10g: Stopping the CSS services ocssd.bin

830576 – Parameter recommendations for Oracle 10g

868681 – Oracle Database 10g: Database Release Check

836517 – Oracle Database 10g: Environment for SAP Upgrade

853507 – Usage Type BI for SAP Netwaevers 2004s

847019 - BI_CONT 7.02: Installation and Upgrade Information

818322 – Add. Info: Upgrade to SAP NW 2004s ABAP

813658 - Repairs for upgrades to products based on SAP NW 2004s AS

855382 – Upgrade to SAP SEM 6.0

852008 – Release restrictions for SAP Netweaver 2004s

884678 - System info shows older release than the deployed one

558197 – Upgrade hangs in PARCONV_UPG

632429 – The upgrade strategy for the add-on BI_CONT

632429 - The upgrade strategy for the add-on FINBASIS

570810 - The upgrade strategy for the add-on PI_BASIS

632429 - The upgrade strategy for the add-on SEM-BW

069455 - The upgrade strategy for the add-on ST-A/PI

606041 - The upgrade strategy for the add-on ST-PI

632429 - The upgrade strategy for the add-on WP-PI

Post upgrade Steps :-

1. Read the Post Installation Steps documented in BW Component Upgrade Guide

2. Apply the following SAP OSS Notes

47019 - BI_CONT 7.02: Installation and Upgrade

558197 - upgrade hangs in PARCONV_UPG, XPRAS_UPG, SHADOW_IMPORT_UPG2

836517 – Oracle Database 10g: Environment for SAP Upgrade

3. Install the J2EE instance as Add-in to ABAP for BI 7.0 and apply the Support Patch that equivalent to ABAP Support Patch.

4. Run SGEN to recompile programs.

5. Install the Kernel Patch.

6. Missing Variants - (also part of test script)

look at the RSRVARIANT table in SE16. If it is empty, then you will definitely need to run RSR_VARIANT_XPRA

program - RSR_VARINT_XPRA

OSS -953346 and 960206 1003481

7. Trouble Shootauthorizations

820183 - New authorization concept in BI

Thanks

Vikranth

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