What are SAP Notes? Where do I can find them? How to use it?

SAP notes are part of SAP service portal. In simple terms, it is SAP'sKnowledge Base that specifically addresses known issues in SAP system. It is continually updated as SAP customers report issues in SAP system and SAP releases note with detailed instructions on how to fix / address the issue.

In single word , SAP Note is the correction / solution provided by SAP . Some notes we can deploy directly using transaction SNOTE. http://service.sap.com/notes

Where can I find the Sap Notes?

The SAP Notes are an online documents published by SAP AG on Marketplace https://service.sap.com

After you login with your S-user you can search for a sap note by clicking onHelp&Support and the click on tab Search for Sap Notes or from SAP system in transaction SNOTE:

How to implement SAP notes?

The Sap Notes can be implemented with SAP Note Assistant. The SAP Note Assistant is called with the sap transaction SNOTE. The SAP Note Assistant is part of the standard system since Basis release 6.10. In earlier releases, you can import it as an additional software component, as an add-on with transaction SAINT. To implement the SAP Note into your system, select the note on the initial screen of the Note Assistant and choose Implement Note.

SAP Notes are implemented with the Note Assistant in the following steps:

1.         You have to localize the required SAP Notes on the SAP Service Marketplace, for example, by searching for keywords or selecting the SAP Note number

2.        You can then load these SAP Notes to the development system with the Sap Note Assistant.

3.        The SAP Notes are checked by the Note Assistant . It checks whether the release named in the SAP Note and the Support Package level is correct, whether the SAP Note requires other SAP Notes before it can be implemented.

4.       The SAP Note is implemented by pressing the import button. This creates a transport request.

5.        The result of implementing the SAP Note is tested in  the development system.

6.       If this test is successful, the transport request is imported to the quality assurance system.

7.        If there are no problem then the transport request is imported to the production system.

The Sap Note Assistant is very important important because:

·           Automatically implement SAP Notes which handle ABAP source code corrections .

·           Handle dependencies with other SAP Notes, Support Packages, and modifications

·           Display all SAP Notes implemented in the system

·           Correct only a single bug, not a replacement for Support Packages

Very important:

   1. Sap Notes cannot change ABAP Dictionary objects

   2. Changes to SAP objects that are introduced using the SAP Note Assistant do not require an SSCR key.

  3. Sap Notes should be implemented in the test system first and after transported into quality and productive system.

SAP Basis Consultant?

Basis, the engine powering SAP’s R/3 and ECC solutions, provides system administrators the tools to keep the SAP environment alive and healthy. And like a preeminent automotive service center, our Basis mechanics are adept at finely tuning the engine to maximize your benefit output. Our skills include transport management, system monitoring, backup and recovery, hot/support pack upgrades, kernel upgrades, system refreshes/copies, user/role administration, and disaster recovery services. 

Every SAP system needs infrastructure administration. And whether it’s R/3 or ECC, SAP calls that “Basis”. With the proliferation of offshore Basis services, and the introduction of NetWeaver, it’s easy to get confused as to what a Basis Consultant really does. Basis Consultants do everything you need to keep the SAP engine running smoothly. This includes:

§   “Tier 1” support services: The most straightforward, and commoditized services, this includesmonitoring the system and insuring that all programs are running. If something gets stuck in a processing queue, it’s up to them to clear the blockage.

§  “Tier 2” support services: When a problem occurs, it’s one thing to fix the symptom (i.e. unblock the queue), it requires additional expertise to reconcile why it went wrong, and fix the real cause. In other words, “Tier 1” administrators turn to “Tier 2” consultants to perform root cause analysis. Tier 2 experts understand what each part of the system does, and how these parts interconnect. They can both trace a problem in one part to the cause in another, and tune each part to make your system run smoother.

§  “Tier 3” support services: Whether fixing a problem or improving the system, when it’s time to dig into the underlying ABAP code that drives SAP, this requires Tier 3 services. While not necessarily programmers themselves, these experts have dealt with enough code to know what should happen, and identify and fix what is happening. As a result of their prowess, these consultants affect technical upgrades, assist in new installations, and are the ultimate problem solvers in case of disaster recovery.

What are the functions of SAPOSCOL ?

• What is SAPOSCOL ?

SAPOSCOL is an operating system collector. It is a standalone program that runs in operating system background.

• What are the functions of SAPOSCOL ?

SAPOSCOL collects data about operating system resources like

ü  CPU Utilization

ü  Usage of Physical Memory

ü  Usage of Virtual Memory

ü  Usage of filesytems

ü  Usage of Physical disks

ü  Usage of running processes

SAPOSCOL runs exactly once per host and runs independently of the sap system.

By default, SAPOSCOL collects data every 10seconds and records it. It also records the hourly average statistics for the last 24hours in shared memory. This data will be fetched by background job “SAP_COLLECTOR_FOR_PERFORMANCE” and writes it to the MONI performance database table.