Working with SAP Notes

If you want to use the Note Assistant to correct an error in the program, proceed as follows:

Prerequisites

You know the number of the SAP Note that contains the correction for the error.

You have created an RFC connection (for downloading SAP Notes).

You have informed the Note Assistant which SAP Notes have been implemented manually. (See also: Registering Manually Implemented SAP Notes )

Procedure

1. 
   
Load the SAP Note into your system.

When you do this, the Note Assistant checks whether the validities that are specified in the SAP Note (software component, release version, and Support Package level) correspond with those in the system. The Note Assistant indicates whether the corrections can be implemented.




Only SAP Notes that contain source code corrections ( Correction Instructions) can be implemented automatically.

2. Read the description of the SAP Note carefully.

The Note description may contain prerequisites, interactions, and references to postprocessing activities (making changes to a table, for example) that are not automatically recognized by the Note Assistant. If you do not take this information into consideration, fatal errors may occur. You must therefore read the SAP Note before you start to implement it.

3. Decide whether the SAP Note is relevant for you.
Classify the SAP Note according to the processing status.

4. 
   
Implement the corrections.
5. If postprocessing activities are specified in the SAP Note, perform them now.

5. Test whether the error has been corrected.

6. Set the processing status to Completed.
7. Release the transport request, and import the corrections into the receiving systems in your system landscape.