Upgrading to Portal 7.3

[Former Member]

Hi,

We have currently on NW 7.0 SP 24 level  portal in our landscape which we mainly use for ESS / MSS application. ESS and MSS are WDJ based but Travel module and MSS Start process module is WDA based.  Below is our existing backend and frontend version. Please let me know whether we can go with Portal 7.3 upgrade.Could you please let me know whether i need to upgrade the business package and XSS java component and also backend  to higher version. to work in portal 7.3 . I read in some other thread that i need to redeploy and recompile WDJ code to work in 7.3 but i am not sure about it.

Regards

Vasu

[SandipAgarwalla · Accepted solution]

it may be lame to ask, but whats ur backend version?

EHP4 or 5..

If you want to go for 7,3, you need to install the latest version of Biz Package and XSS java comps...

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if the backend is on EHP4, then these are the versions you need to install on Portal 7.3

• BP ERP05 ESS 1.41
• BP ERP05 MSS 1.41
• BP ERP05 COMMON PARTS 1.41

XSS Java Comps

• SAP ESS 633 (SAPESS<patch_level>_20.SCA)
• SAP MSS 630 (SAPMSS<patch_level>_10.SCA)
• PCUI_GP 633 (SAPPCUIGP<patch_level>_20.SCA)

But again if you are on ECC EHP5, the version name would change accordingly..Go to SMP and check..

And you have to retrofit your custom WDJ code to work in 7.3

Hope this helps

Sandip

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Sandip,

Thanks for the info. No EHP is implemented in back end. In case we need to apply new business packages / XSS components then what about custom modification done on existing ESS and MSS packages?. It looks like a new implementation to me

Regards

Vasu

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

No you can migrate your custom code. See also my answer to this post:

http://scn.sap.com/thread/3191064

Are you using NWDI?

[SandipAgarwalla · Accepted solution]

as Jan has mentioned, you can/have to migrate your custom code to the new environment.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Jan,

We have NWDI. We have done some WDJ code changes in  existing ESS and MSS packages (like leave request,time quota screen etc).  Our intention is to upgrade only portal to 7.3 version without changing the existing ESS and MSS functionality.

Regards

Vasu

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Vasu,

We had exactly the same scenario. We created a new track in NWDI and integrated the old and new code using the methods described in "NWDI cookbook for XSS customers" (it is a pdf - let me know if you can't find it and I can mail it to you).

We then solved conflicts between old/custom and new code in NWDS and also migrated the projects to 7.3 as described in the pdf I link to in

http://scn.sap.com/thread/3191064

There was some legwork but in the end it worked fine.

BR Jan

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thanks Jan. I have the "NWDI cookbook for XSS customers" pdf document. I will try once sandbox server is available in our landscape.

--Vasu

[junwu · Accepted solution]

that is not possible, old ess/mss application cannot run on nw7.3

[Former Member]

This blog might be useful as well

http://scn.sap.com/community/netweaver-portal/blog/2012/03/30/my-experience-on-portal-73-upgrade-mig...#

[Former Member]

Thanks Jan. I already gone through the blog.  As mentioned in the blog it looks like i need to implement new business packages for ESS and MSS.

Regards

Vasu

[Former Member]

As you can see from my post above you need the new business packages in NWDI but it is not a new implementation but a merge/migration you need to do.