SAP Notes

SAP Notes give you instructions on how to remove known errors from SAP systems. They
include a description of the symptoms, the cause of the error, and the SAP Release and Support
Package level in which the error occurs.
Note Assistant (transaction SNOTE) helps you when working with SAP Notes.

Depending on the type of error, an SAP Note may also include:

 Workarounds
 Descriptions of how to correct repository objects in the ABAP workbench, known as
correction instructions
 Links to Support Packages that solve the problem

Caution
Note Assistant is only able to automatically implement SAP Notes that have correction
instructions.
Read the SAP Note carefully before you use Note Assistant to implement it. The SAP Note can
contain prerequisites, interactions, and references to post-processing activities (making changes
to a table, for example) that you need to take into consideration when implementing it.

Activating Note Assistant

Before you can start using Note Assistant, you need to make some settings in your system.
There are different ways in which you can load SAP Notes into your system. You can download
SAP Notes directly using an RFC connection to SAP, or you can use Note Assistant to upload
SAP Notes that you have already loaded from SAP Service Marketplace. For information
regarding the pros and cons of these different procedures, see Loading an SAP Note.

If you want to download an SAP Note with RFC, you first need to activate an RFC connection.
Procedure
1. Define the system change option (transaction SE03). Set the following:
a. For the software components in which you want to implement the SAP Notes, set
the status to Restricted modifiability or Modifiable.
b. For the general SAP namespace, set the status to Modifiable.

2. If you want to download SAP Notes using an RFC connection, create the RFC connection
SAPSNOTE. To do this, first create the RFC connection SAPOSS and then create the RFC
connection SAPSNOTE from this.
Procedure:
a. Call transaction OSS1. In the standard system, this creates connection SAPOSS.
b. Call the configuration screen for RFC connections (transaction SM59).
c. Expand the ABAP Connections node and select the connection SAPOSS by double
clicking it.
d. On the Technical Settings tab page, change the client to 001. Now select the Logon &
Security tab page and enter CPIC as the password for connection SAPOSS. Save your
data.
e. Choose Connection  Copy and enter SAPSNOTE as the name of the new destination.
 f. Change the following parameters in the new RFC connection:
Tab page: Technical Settings
Load Distribution: Choose Yes.
Target System ID: Enter OSS.
Group: Enter 1_PUBLIC.

Tab page: Logon & Security

Client: Enter 001.
User: Enter OSS_SNOTE.
Password: Enter CPIC.

If you want to load SAP Notes from SAP Service Marketplace and then upload them into your
system by note upload, then you do not need an RFC connection.

3. If you have already implemented SAP Notes in your system but you did not use Note
Assistant, you have to inform the system of the SAP Notes that you implemented manually.
To do this, execute the SCWN_REGISTER_NOTES program with the ABAP Editor
(transaction SE38). (See Registering Manually Implemented SAP Notes)

4. To view the note text correctly in Note Assistant, install Adobe Reader Version 7.0.1 or
higher on your computer.

SAP Note Download directly from SAP

1. In Note Assistant, (T-Code SNote) choose SAP Note Download.
2. Specify the numbers of the SAP Notes that you want to download.
Use the selection function to load one SAP Note or a list of SAP Notes.
3. Confirm your selection.
The system loads the SAP Notes to your database via the RFC connection.

SAP Note Upload after downloading note from SAP Market Place
1. Select the correct SAP Note in the SAP Service Marketplace under
service.sap.com/notes.
2. Choose Download.
The SAP Note is added to your download basket. You can repeat this action for as
many SAP Notes as you require.
3. To save the SAP Notes locally on your PC, start the SAP Download Manager. Choose
Download. The SAP Notes are loaded as files into the directory you have specified.
4. Use the upload function in Note Assistant (T-Code SNote)Goto  Upload SAP Note)
to load the SAP Note files into your system.