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):

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

---- NetWeaver 7.52 SPS 13 (estimated to be available by October 16th)

---- GRC Access Control 12.0 SPS 22

 

SAP Business Technology Platform (formerly SCP) HANA DB:

-- HANA 2.00.059.09 or higher

 

SAP Mobile:   N/A for 2023

 

Ancillary Systems:  IAAS applications

BSI, SFTP, OpenText  -  BSI (OS and Server in scope); SFTP (not in scope);  OpenText (HANA DB update, DB OS in scope | App Server OS and migration not in scope).  

Details below on schedule:

OTP (OpenText IaaS server) Disk Scale Up 10/07 Done (expedited maintenance)

PS1 (ERP Prod DB server) Physical to Virtual Migration 10/07 Done

ACD (NetWeaver/GRC) Application Software Update  10/16 17:00 -> 10/18 01:00

 

DSD (NetWeaver/ADS) Database Software Update 10/17 Done

DSD (NetWeaver/ADS) Application Software Update 10/17 15:00 -> 10/18 22:00

 

HAN (OpenText Non-Prod DB server) Operating System Update  10/23 18:00 -> 20:30

 

DST (NetWeaver/ADS) Database Software Update 10/24 18:30 -> 21:30

 

HAN (OpenText Non-Prod DB server) Database Software Update 10/26 18:00 -> 22:00

 

DSP (NetWeaver/ADS) Database Software Update 11/04 01:45 -> 05:45

HAP (OpenText Prod DB server) Operating System Update  11/04 01:45 -> 04:30

PS1 (ERP Prod DB server) Database Software Update 11/04 01:45 -> 05:30

 

HAP (OpenText Prod DB server) Database Software Update 12/02 03:00 -> 08:00

 

DST (NetWeaver/ADS) Application Software TBD

DST (NetWeaver/ADS) Application Software TBD

ACT (NetWeaver/GRC) Application Software Update  TBD

ACP (NetWeaver/GRC) Application Software Update  TBD

 

Note: 

The OpenText DB server maintenance is independent of the OpenText IaaS migrations to new SLES 15.4 servers, which are considered out of scope.

 




 

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