Importing SPAM Updates

Use

You will receive extensions and improvements of the SAP Patch Manager from the SPAM update. There is always one SPAM update for each maintenance level release that is correspondingly updated. You can find the version (creation date) in the short description, for example:

SPAM update v. 13 May 1998 for R/3 4.0B

A SPAM update appears first in the patch list of OSS, prior to earlier patches.

Make sure you always have the newest version of SPAM before applying patches.

Requirements

You can only import a SPAM update successfully if there are no aborted patches in the system.

A dialog box informs you if there are aborted patches. You then have two possibilities:

1. First apply the complete patch queue and then the SPAM update.
2. Reset the patch queue status, import the SPAM update first and then the patch queue. You can reset the patch queue status by choosing Extras ® Reset status ® Patch queue.

Procedure

1. Check if the SPAM update offered is newer than the one in your system. To check this, under Directory choose Applied patches and then choose Display.




For technical reasons, a SPAM update is not displayed in the patch queue.

2. To import the newest SPAM update, choose Patch ® SPAM update.

SPAM updates are automatically confirmed after being successfully imported.