Hi Folks
Many times I have the “pleasure” of applying patches on a lazy system. Don’t you? It’s frightening see that there aren’t errors, everything is working but so slowly that you would like to tear your hair!
Don’t PANIC if you get this dump applying the SPAM. You get a timeout or the tp/R3trans hd frizzed. You cannot execute SPAM transaction so you have to do a trick to sort this.
Yes, Yes of course the common sense … If you are implementing new software do a backup before.
SAP Best Practices guide you that before apply new Support Packages you should:
1.- Upgrade your Kernel Release ( if your release is more than 6 months old )
2.- Upgrade the SPAM level ( allways the last version released )
3.- (optional) If your database on archive mode you should.
First of all you should keeping mind what SPAM/SAINT do when you install a Support Package:
A Support Package is at least an “Transport Request” so all the phases must be well know.
What do a Transport Request? What is the process that starts the import? What to check in case of errors?
Direct use of R3trans is not supported by may be required in exceptional cases. R3trans should always be used thougth tp.
Well first of all you must check if the tp import log to see if the TR is running or not:
STMS-> Overview -> Imports
And then Go to -> tp System Log
Select the SID
You will see something like this:
START INFORM SAP-SYSTEM OF <SID> Q 20130807122214 TMSADM hostname 20130807122207023 START tp_getprots <SID> Q 20130807122214 TMSADM hostname 20130807122207023 STOP tp_getprots <SID> Q 20130807122217 TMSADM hostname 20130807122207023 STOP INFORM SAP-SYSTEM OF <SID> Q 20130807122217 TMSADM hostname 20130807122207023 |
In a nutshell:
1.- Check tp System Log
2.- See if there is tp/R3trans proceses running ( OS level )
3.- See if the TR is running /usr/sap/trans/tmp ( you can find that the SupportPackage log from the tp )
4.- If there aren’t tp/R3trans proceses running you may would like to restart the import of the TR:
- Ensure that no more TP and R3trans are running at OS level
- Ensure that the entry in the transport buffer for SAPKKD73150 is still available, check that with
tp showbuffer <SID> pf=/usr/sap/trans/bin/TP_DOMAIN_<SID>.PFL tag=spam
If the entry of SAPKKD73150 is still available, ensure that TRBAT and TRJOB tables are empty (check at DB level)
- Then start the main import manually using the command
tp r3i SAPKKD73150 <SID> pf=/usr/sap/trans/bin/TP_DOMAIN_<SID>.PFL tag=spam -Dclientcascade=yes -Drepeatonerror=8
(all in one line)
Hope this helps you.