Technical Upgrade without Unicode

[Former Member]

Hello,

Is it possible to do a technical upgrade from 4.70 to ecc 6.0 without doing the unicode conversions? we are trying to do a cost efficient way of doing an upgrade.

thanks.

[markus_doehr2]

One additional thought:

If you plan to implement a Java system later (e. g. an Enterprise Portal) the backend system must be Unicode. However, you can do the Unicode migration with a later step.

Markus

[Former Member]

BTW - MDMP is allowed for ERP, with some limitations and with SAP confirmation.

Regards,

Mirek

[markus_doehr2]

> BTW - MDMP is allowed for ERP, with some limitations and with SAP confirmation.

Not officially:

Note 852235 - Release Restrictions for SAP ERP 6.0

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MDMP support: SAP uses and recommends Unicode as the standard technology to cover multilingual language requirements. Up to now, only SAP R/3 fully supported MDMP. Due to the existing limitations or risks, as of SAP ERP 6.0 SAP no longer supports MDMP.

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Markus

[Former Member]

hello,

i executed program RSCP0018. in one of the output, it says the following:

profile parameters < kernel>

application servers: CCC_INTU

Profile Val: Unicode.

This is a 4.70 system. Does this mean it is already unicode compliant and we no longer need to do a unicode migration during the technical upgrade?

hope anyone can provide inputs. thanks.

[Former Member]

click on system click on status there is unicode system = yes means your system is unicode enabled if no means your system non unicode.

Regards,

Nikunj Thaker.

[Former Member]

hi,

where can i see the system status? what tcode is this?

thanks.

[sunny_pahuja2]

You can check System status by clicking on System --> Status. There you can check release.

You can also check release of your system from table UVERS.

Thanks

Sunny

[Former Member]

I executed UCCHECK. The result shows:

Check a Program Set for Syntax Errors in Unicode Environment

Could not determine program name:

FUGR GRWT SAP SAP

Could not determine program name:

PROG MLDB SAP SAP

There are only 2 errors. Why is this so when I checked SYSTEM->STATUS under unicode is says NO.

Is there an error? thanks.

[peter_dzurov]

Any new installations of ERP 6 (from scratch) have to be unicode, therefore you will need to do also unicode conversion.

[Former Member]

If you are running in single code page that there is no issue, But if you are system is MDMP you must need to convert to unicode first.

check this [link|http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/10217] [original link is broken] [original link is broken] [original link is broken];

[Former Member]

Absolutely possible .....

You can perform,

1. Only technical upgrade

2. Technical Upgrade and Unicode Conversion separately

3. Conbined Upgrade and unicode conversion

4. Only Unicode conversion

Regards,

Kiran