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How To Apply OSS Notes To My R/3 System?

To apply an OSS note (CAR file) to an SAP R/3 system: 1. Log on as the <sapsid>adm user and copy the CAR file to a temporary directory. 2. Uncompress the CAR file using the SAPCAR command. This will create data and cofiles transport files. 3. Copy the transport files to the appropriate directories and run transaction STMS to upload the support package using transaction SPAM. 4. After running SPAM, use STMS to check the transport queues. Testing in a sandbox environment first is recommended before applying packages to production.

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How To Apply OSS Notes To My R/3 System?

To apply an OSS note (CAR file) to an SAP R/3 system: 1. Log on as the <sapsid>adm user and copy the CAR file to a temporary directory. 2. Uncompress the CAR file using the SAPCAR command. This will create data and cofiles transport files. 3. Copy the transport files to the appropriate directories and run transaction STMS to upload the support package using transaction SPAM. 4. After running SPAM, use STMS to check the transport queues. Testing in a sandbox environment first is recommended before applying packages to production.

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Apply OSS Notes On My SAP R/3 System

How to apply OSS notes to my R/3 system?

In order to fix one of the problem in R/3 system, SAP will asked you to download an OSS
notes which is a ".car" file.

To work with a CAR File do the following at OS Level:

Get into OS as <sapsid>adm

Copy the .CAR file to a Temporary Directory.

Uncompress the file with SAPCAR

Copy the the data file generated in the data transport directory
( ej: = /usr/Sap/trans/data).

Copy the the cofile file generated in the cofiles transport directory
( = ej: /usr/Sap/trans/cofiles).

Run transaction STMS

Upload the support package with SPAM transaction and the support package will show "New
support packages".

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Examples of CAR command :-

1) UNIX only:

Log on as user <sapsid>adm.


cd /usr/sap/trans
CAR -xvf tmp/<ARCHIVE_NAME>.CAR -V

2) Windows NT only:

Log on as user <SAPSID>ADM.


cd \USR\SAP\TRANS
CAR -xvf TMP\<ARCHIVE_NAME>.CAR

This Will create two(2) FILES

After you run SPAM you MUST run STMS and check the transport queues

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As per 315963 note you can direct made the changes in the program or you can apply the
support pack.

a) If you want to apply correction then first you need to register the object in SAP, so that you
will get the Access key and then you can make the changes.

b) If you want to import the support pack then you need to down load from SAP market-
place. and this is in CAR file. and then you need extract the same using CAR utility.
ex: CAR -xvf abc.car

or

you can directly apply the patch from SAPGUI, login to 000 client and then you can load the
patch from Presentation server.

Also check what is your current basis patch level?

For example if you want to apply patch 07 and you are having 05 then you need to apply
06 and then apply 07.

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Things to take note of:-

It would definitely be better to apply the latest spam/saint spam manager, tp, R3trans and
possibly a new kernel patch.

This is not a simple task to complete on the fly. By applying SAP support packs, you may
run into problems with SPDD and SPAU adjustments. Also include the fact that the support
packages may break one of your transactions. You may want to test this in your sandbox
environment, if you have one, before tackling it.

In most situation when you apply support packages, it can takes about 3 weeks to fully test
the support packages before you can apply them to the production system.

Do test your "golden" transactions to make sure that they are not broken. If you are not
familiar with SPDD and/or SPAU adjustments than do not attempt to load support packages.

You may be better off just to modify the SAP object in question via OSS note.

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