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Suman Chakravarthy K

May 19, 2013 Less than a 1 minute read

How to download a SAP Note without OSS Id

Introduction

Many of our SAP BI/BW Consultants may not have OSS Id to browse SAP Notes at Market place. The following steps will show you How to download Notes without OSS Id..

Step 1: Goto t-code SNOTE in Dev system, you will get the screen like below

Step 2 : Click on Goto –>Download SAP Note

Step 3 : Enter the Note No. and Press Execute

Step 4 : At times, You may get Error in RFC connection. You can ignore this message and try again

Step 5 : Your SAP Note will be downloaded and available under SAP Notes–>New. You can refer the screen shot

These simple steps will make you to get any SAP Notes

Note : This workaround is just to download the Notes in PDF format. BW Developers should not implement the Notes. We should ask BASIS to implement, if necessary.

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Raman Korrapati

May 19, 2013 at 7:24 am

Very useful info Suman. Thanks for sharing

Suman Chakravarthy K

Blog Post Author

May 20, 2013 at 5:11 am

Thank you Raman!!

Former Member

June 4, 2013 at 11:38 am

Very good document Suman...Thanks alot.. 🙂

Suman Chakravarthy K

Blog Post Author

June 4, 2013 at 12:44 pm

Thank you so much karan!!

Vamsi Krishna Srikanti

June 11, 2013 at 8:33 am

Nice document Suman 🙂 . But, jus as a addition, for getting this done, OSS RFC connectivity to SAP via SAP Router should be available. Then, the process you mentioned here is error free. 🙂

Suman Chakravarthy K

Blog Post Author

June 11, 2013 at 10:04 am

Yeah, obviously connectivity should be there. This is a basic pre-requisite.

Thank you 🙂

Roland Kramer

November 20, 2013 at 2:32 pm

True ... 😉

Someone else did the work for you already.

Former Member

June 11, 2013 at 9:01 am

Thank you suman. this is a good information

Suman Chakravarthy K

Blog Post Author

June 11, 2013 at 9:04 am

Thanks Archana..

Former Member

June 11, 2013 at 12:41 pm

very useful document.Thanks For Sharing

Suman Chakravarthy K

Blog Post Author

June 11, 2013 at 1:00 pm

Thank you kalpana 🙂

Former Member

July 16, 2013 at 5:21 pm

Thank you suman 🙂

Suman Chakravarthy K

Blog Post Author

July 16, 2013 at 5:51 pm

Thank you Jose..

Benedict Venmani Felix

July 16, 2013 at 6:48 pm

Hi Suman,

I got a question here. Does downloading it mean implementing the note in the dev system or is it just downloading alone?

Thanks,

Benedict

Suman Chakravarthy K

Blog Post Author

July 16, 2013 at 6:51 pm

It is just downloading a soft copy of SAP Note in PDF format. Implementation has to be done by BASIS.

prabhith prabhakaran

August 28, 2013 at 4:53 pm

Thanks a lot, Suman.

Really useful....

Suman Chakravarthy K

Blog Post Author

August 28, 2013 at 5:06 pm

Thank you Prabhit..

Former Member

August 28, 2013 at 5:10 pm

Very Informative...Many Thanks.

Best Regards,

Naresh K.

Suman Chakravarthy K

Blog Post Author

August 28, 2013 at 5:11 pm

Many Thanks Naresh...

Demish Maniyar

August 28, 2013 at 7:38 pm

Great job Suman....!!!

I really appreciate the best efforts.

Thanks & Regards,

Demish Maniyar

Suman Chakravarthy K

Blog Post Author

August 29, 2013 at 4:06 am

Thank you so much Demish for your kind appreciation.

Former Member

August 29, 2013 at 7:33 am

Hi Suman,

Thanks, very informative...

Suman Chakravarthy K

Blog Post Author

August 29, 2013 at 7:34 am

Thank you Arun..

Former Member

August 30, 2013 at 12:14 pm

Thank you very much Suman.Really enlightening 😀

Suman Chakravarthy K

Blog Post Author

August 30, 2013 at 1:21 pm

Thank you Manjush..for your words

Aravind Nag M

August 30, 2013 at 1:33 pm

Very useful trick... suman 😆

Suman Chakravarthy K

Blog Post Author

August 30, 2013 at 1:48 pm

Thank you Aravind.. 🙂

Former Member

September 6, 2013 at 11:34 am

Hi Suman,

I am sure its definitely a great document. Till now I am thinking that we should have OSS ID to download the docs. But I am clear now.

Thanks a lot Suman.

Suman Chakravarthy K

Blog Post Author

September 6, 2013 at 11:35 am

Thank you so much Phani. I am glad to know that my doc has helped you a lot.

Anshu Lilhori

September 6, 2013 at 11:39 am

Suman,this is simply superb..

Regards,

AL

Suman Chakravarthy K

Blog Post Author

September 6, 2013 at 11:41 am

🙂 Thanks for your cheerful comments.

Former Member

September 6, 2013 at 12:24 pm

Quite useful information Suman 🙂

Suman Chakravarthy K

Blog Post Author

September 6, 2013 at 1:10 pm

🙂 Thank you Anupam

Kamal Mehta

September 8, 2013 at 12:25 pm

Useful piece of information.

Thanks

Suman Chakravarthy K

Blog Post Author

September 8, 2013 at 12:43 pm

HI kamal,

Thanks for the compliment.

Suman Chakravarthy K

Blog Post Author

September 8, 2013 at 1:14 pm

Hi Kamal,

You can have a look at my other blogs and give your opinion.

Former Member

September 12, 2013 at 6:46 pm

Thanks Suman for such informative document.... 🙂

Regards,

Pankaj

Suman Chakravarthy K

Blog Post Author

September 23, 2013 at 1:21 pm

Thank you Pankaj 🙂

Satendra Mishra

September 23, 2013 at 6:35 am

Hi,

Superb information....

Regrards,

SM

Suman Chakravarthy K

Blog Post Author

September 23, 2013 at 6:49 am

Thanks a lot.. 🙂

Former Member

September 23, 2013 at 7:04 am

Useful one

Suman Chakravarthy K

Blog Post Author

September 23, 2013 at 7:18 am

Thank you Dilip..

Former Member

September 23, 2013 at 1:50 pm

I believe, this is a common problem frequently faced by most of the SAP consultants, Im one of those 🙂 you have done a great job by finding and sharing this sollution to every one suman.

Thanks,

Venu

Suman Chakravarthy K

Blog Post Author

September 23, 2013 at 2:49 pm

Thank you venu gopal 🙂

Former Member

September 23, 2013 at 2:58 pm

simple and good one.

Suman Chakravarthy K

Blog Post Author

September 23, 2013 at 3:07 pm

Thanks krishna 🙂

Srinu S

October 15, 2013 at 1:06 pm

Very helpful information shared Suman. thanks for sharing.

thanks for sharing. Keep on sharing this kind of useful tips 🙂

Srinu.

Suman Chakravarthy K

Blog Post Author

October 15, 2013 at 1:08 pm

Thank you srinivas 🙂 . Can u rate it?

Srinu S

October 15, 2013 at 1:10 pm

Done it Suman.Please check

Srinu.

Srinu S

October 15, 2013 at 1:13 pm

Hi Suman,

If possible please create one new document for the Functional consultants

the basics of BI for Functional consultants which will be more useful for FC.

Srinu.

Suman Chakravarthy K

Blog Post Author

October 15, 2013 at 1:16 pm

Hi Srinivas,

I will try. You can go through all my blogs on various topics.

Regardas,

Suman

Srinu S

October 15, 2013 at 1:18 pm

Thanks Suman for your reply. Sure will follow maximum .

Srinu.

Former Member

October 30, 2013 at 5:24 am

Hi Suman,

Good Day! 🙂

Fantabulous Blog! No words to appreciate.

It is simple, sweet but information is big!

Thank you so much for sharing this information.

Have a wonderful day!

Regards,

Hari Suseelan

Suman Chakravarthy K

Blog Post Author

October 30, 2013 at 5:31 am

Hi Hari,

Your reply gives me a kick 🙂 Really amazed with your sweet words. Thanks..

Regards,

Suman

Former Member

October 30, 2013 at 9:39 am

Hi Suman,

You are welcome. For you no need to motivate, you are already motivated and motivating others. I am very happy to see that. Keep rocking, sharing and motivating ppl forever.

Regards,

Hari Suseelan 😘

Suman Chakravarthy K

Blog Post Author

October 30, 2013 at 10:28 am

Hi Hari,

It's my Pleasure to share my knowledge on SCN platform 🙂 . Motivation is a driving factor to achieve any thing in this World 😉

Regards,

Suman

Former Member

October 30, 2013 at 5:36 am

Hello Suman,

Good Blog,

useful one !!!!!!

Suman Chakravarthy K

Blog Post Author

October 30, 2013 at 5:43 am

Hi Madhu,

Thanks for the feed back 🙂

Ranu Eugene

October 30, 2013 at 5:37 am

Hi Suman,

Very useful document as every SAP consultant requires SAP note s in day to day life.

Thanks for sharing.

Keep up the good work. 🙂

Best of Luck. 🙂

Suman Chakravarthy K

Blog Post Author

October 30, 2013 at 5:44 am

Hi Ranu,

Thanks for the valuable feedback 🙂 Yes it will help us in our day to day job.

Regards,

Suman

Former Member

October 30, 2013 at 6:01 am

Hi Suman,

Superb idea... !!!!!

"What An Idea sir ji" 😎

Thanks for sharing...

Regards

Subbarao M

Suman Chakravarthy K

Blog Post Author

October 30, 2013 at 6:17 am

Hi Subba Rao,

Excited to see your words 🙂 U r welcome.

Regards,

Suman

Former Member

October 30, 2013 at 10:22 am

Good job suman you made much easier.

NiceDoc.

Suman Chakravarthy K

Blog Post Author

October 30, 2013 at 10:24 am

Thank you Mohammed 🙂

Former Member

October 30, 2013 at 10:33 am

Surely the point of SAP's security model in this instance is exactly to stop people who don't have an S-number from gaining access to the content? Circumventing the mechanism like this isn't really the correct way forward - the correct way forward is to apply for an S-number that will give you access to SAP Marketplace content.

Using the above method means that you are effectively using the authorisation against the RFC link from your SAP system to OSS, which I would suggest should probably only be available to admin/basis team members and not for everyone who can access the system.

Surely if you are an SAP consultant, it is easy to get an S-number? If you go to this link, you should be able to request a proper S-number.

Gareth.

Suman Chakravarthy K

Blog Post Author

October 30, 2013 at 10:41 am

Hi Ryan,

I have got your point of view. FYI, I have OSS Id to browse notes and all. The purpose of this blog to convey a message to all that Notes can be accessed by this way also. This is to download notes and these have to be implemented by BASIS only. This piece of information is very much helpful when we really don't have S-number.

We can restrict access to SNOTE t-code if we don't want this to be opened to all BW consultants.

Regards,

Suman

Raman Korrapati

October 30, 2013 at 10:50 am

As per the authorizations only Tx - SNOTE accessible to consultants and that to at required time only thru FF access. its an information which can possible to View OSS Notes without S user id thru SNOTE.

Former Member

November 15, 2013 at 5:22 pm

It is useful information who are newely learning SAP BI/BW

Suman Chakravarthy K

Blog Post Author

November 15, 2013 at 5:24 pm

Thank you for your cheerful comments 🙂

Roland Kramer

November 20, 2013 at 5:09 pm

see Document - https://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-41588 => Page 93

anyone who did that, and eventually the ports are open to the SAP OSS Backend, you are set.

Best Regards Roland

Suman Chakravarthy K

Blog Post Author

November 20, 2013 at 6:11 pm

Ok Kramer. Thanks for sharing such wonderful document. Lot of info is there. I just wanted to share that t-code to view the notes easily.

Former Member

November 21, 2013 at 2:30 am

Thanks Suman for sharing this. Useful for freshers like me..

Ganesh Bothe

December 19, 2013 at 10:43 am

Hi suman,

Its useful information...Many users does not have oss id..thanks for sharing 🙂 .

Suman Chakravarthy K

Blog Post Author

December 19, 2013 at 11:27 am

Thanks for commenting Ganesh, 🙂

Former Member

June 10, 2014 at 11:34 am

HI Suman,

I am unable to download SAP Note 😕 by using SNOTE T-Code. I have tried to download SAP Note 899038.

Former Member

June 10, 2014 at 11:47 am

Hi Praveen,

What is the error you're facing while trying to download the SAP Note?

can you share the error screenshot?

Thanks,

Karan

Suman Chakravarthy K

Blog Post Author

June 10, 2014 at 11:47 am

You must try again Step 2 and 3. I have just downloaded your Note No: 899038 - New Open Hub Destination BI 7.0 (SP 06) NetWeaver Stack 06 through SNOTE.

Former Member

June 10, 2014 at 12:04 pm

HI Suman/Kiran,

When i click on execute it is shown some RFC popup message which you have told. Then after clicking on "OK" i am getting below message at the bottom of the screen.

Former Member

June 10, 2014 at 12:25 pm

Hi Praveen,

Are you trying this in Dev or Prod system?

Normally, in Dev system I've faced the same issue while downloading OSS notes.

Thanks,

Karan

Former Member

June 12, 2014 at 6:48 am

Thanks...Suman....:)

Very good Idea to download the SAP notes ....earlier I was facing this issue without OSS ID..

Thanks Once Again....

Waiting for new ideas and updates......

Regards

Arun Garg

Former Member

June 21, 2014 at 9:45 am

Hi Suman

First of all thank you for this wonderful post.I don't have OSS Id.I used to depend on my colleagues for any note.Sometimes I had to wait for more than 3-4 days if they were on leave .Now I can use notes any time.It is saving lots of my time.

Keep posting new things....

Thanks!!!

Kuldeep

Former Member

June 23, 2014 at 8:38 am

Hi,

Its a very useful information Suman. Thanks for sharing it.

Regards,

Nilesh

Former Member

July 7, 2014 at 6:41 am

Good Explanation.Keep it up 🙂

Chandra Janardhansudhir Kunar

July 9, 2014 at 3:20 am

Hi Suman,

One more simple & useful document from you .

Thanks,

Sudhir

Suman Chakravarthy K

Blog Post Author

July 9, 2014 at 4:55 am

Hi Janardhan Sudhir Kumar Chanda ,

Nice to see your comment 🙂

Regards,

Suman

Former Member

July 24, 2014 at 5:06 am

Hi Suma,

useful information .

Thank you so much

Regards,

Venka Reddy

Former Member

February 22, 2018 at 8:33 am

Most of all the SAP consultant will be knowing this already...Is there anyway to read sap note even without GUI and S user id????