03. 2023 SP Plans and Schedule

High-Level Timeline

By end-of-day Nov 3 - Plan, create/update test scripts in ALM. (SAP Business Areas)

End of day production snapshot from 9/18/2023 to be used to refresh SF3 environment

End of day production snapshot from 9/26/2023 to be used to refresh SH1 environment

End of day production snapshot from 10/16/2023 to be used to refresh SH2 environment

Refer to calendar for detailed time frames

2023 SAP Support Pack Upgrade - Calendar View

Oct 5: SAP releases year-end support pack versions

Oct 13-18: SF3 upgrade

Oct 16: SH1 ready for use

Oct 20 at 5PM: start of SF2 restricted window

Oct 21-24: SF2 upgrade

Oct 24 at 5PM: start of SH2 restricted window

Oct 25-Oct 31: SH2 refresh and upgrade

Nov 2-3: IS&T Controlled Payroll Test

Nov 6-28: SH2 business testing

Nov 29 -Dec 1 - Uptime Production Cut-over Activities -

Dec 1-Dec 3 - Go-live weekend! (start Friday at 5pm)

Dec 4 - Upgraded PS1 is ready for use

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SAP Scheduled Upgrades - Ancillary Systems

ERP (systems SF3, SF2, SH2, PS1):

-- EHP8 for SAP ERP 6.0 SPS 21 with HR SP 0124 (a.k.a. C4)

---- SAP KERNEL 7.54 64-BIT UNICODE PL 200

---- SMERP 630_740 SP 0012

---- SMFND 630_740 SP 0012

NetWeaver ADS (systems DSD, DST, DSP):

-- NetWeaver 750 SPS 28 with SAP JVM 8.1.095 (or higher)

NetWeaver/GRC (systems ACD, ACT, ACP):