Version manager (updating a version)

This setting can either be configured manually in each affected SAP® system or can be transported. In the latter case, note that the user must have the appropriate authorization for setting the version to import the transport.

Certain features in the AEB Add-on for SAP are enabled only when you update to the next-higher version. The following outlines which versions are available for a particular product and how you update to a higher version.

Proceed as follows to update to a higher version:

  1. Start the transaction /AEB/VM (AEB Cockpit: Administration – Products - global functions – Version manager.
  2. The Products list shows the version of each product installed in your SAP system.

    3. Click the Versions button to see additional versions available for a particular product.

  3. Highlight a product and click the Run update button.
  4. A window opens, listing the individual steps.
  5. Work through these steps one by one as follows:
  1. Select a step from the list.
  2. Click the Start editing button.
  3. Click Yes on the prompt to see instructions for a particular step.
  4. Close the instructions and click Yes again to confirm the prompt that follows.
  5. Perform the tasks indicated for this step.
  6. You can work on a step even if another user is already defined as the user for this step.
  7. When you are finished, click Finish to close the step.

Each step can be completed only by the user also defined as the user in the step. Steps can be completed only from the Processing status.

  1. Go to the next step and repeat this procedure.
  2. When you have completed the last step in the list, the window closes and the new version is activated.
  1. This completes the update process.

The steps must be completed in a certain order. The step number (Step no.) tells you whether it is possible to process a step.

Example: Steps 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3 may be completed in any order. Step 2.1 can be completed only after all 1.X steps are complete.

Automatic steps create a job. As soon as the job has run, the user of the step is sent an SAP® office mail. Clicking the Information button displays information on the job that has run. If the job did not complete without errors, you can right-click and select Context menu – Reset status, reset the status to “Open”, and then run it again. To ignore the error, right-click and select Context menu – Complete step without check, and set the step to Complete without any further checks.

To mark the status of such steps as “completed”, the report /AEB/01_VM_MONITORING must be executed or scheduled as a job.