Settings for SPAM

To go to the dialog box where you can make general settings for the SAP Patch Manager (SPAM), choose Extras ® Settings. These settings equally influence the behavior when you download and apply patches of different types. The SPAM updates are an exception, where certain settings are already fixed.

You can set the following attributes:

· Transmission monitor

When you activate the Transmission monitor, you can monitor patches being downloaded from the OSS with a graphical monitor. Otherwise, the progress of the download is displayed in the status line.

· Scenario

When choosing the scenario, you determine which activities are to be performed when the patch is applied. The default scenario is used to apply patches completely; all steps are performed. The Test scenario lets you determine before the patch is actually applied, if a modification adjustment is required, or if conflicts will occur that should be resolved before applying the patch. In the Test scenario, data and objects are not imported into your SAP system.

There is no Test scenario for SPAM updates. The selection you make here is ignored when importing a SPAM update.

· Creating a backup

Here you can determine if a backup copy of the customer objects, which are overwritten when applying patches, should be created.

Note that creating a backup may take a long time, and furthermore may require a lot of disk space.

A backup copy is not created with the SPAM update, since the SPAM transaction contains no objects to be modified by the customer that have to be backed up.

· Run Generation

This option lets you determine if the programs and screens delivered with the patches should be generated when applying the patch.

Note that the generation can take a long time.

If you do not choose Generation, the programs and screens are only generated when the are called for the first time. Note that you can only influence this parameter if generation is permitted by SAP for these patches during the patch application.

You cannot influence generation for the SPAM update.

SAP Global Settings

Option	Global Setting
Transmission monitor	Deactivated
Scenario	Default
Creating a backup	Deactivated
Run Generation	Deactivated