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New Installation of S/4HANA 1909 FPS1- Part 1 – Maintenance Planner
This procedure is Part 1 of the series which describes the very first steps to download the media. We will focus on creating Sandbox type instance with co-deployed (embedded) gateway.
Please find other blogs as follows at SAP S/4HANA SQUARE ONE
SAP S/4HANA SQUARE ONE |
| NEW INSTALLATION | PART1 – MP | PART2 – Installation |
PART3 – BP Activation |
PART4 – Fiori Activation | PART5 – DATA MIGRATION |
| S/4HANA 1909 | fps2 fps1 fps0 | fps2 fps1 fps0 | fps2 fps1 fps0 | fps2 fps1 fps0 | fps0 |
| S/4HANA 1809 | fps2 fps1 fps0 | fps2 fps1 fps0 | fps2 fps1 fps0 | fps2 fps1 fps0 | |
| S/4HANA 1709 |
fps2 fps1 fps0 | fps2 fps1 fps0 | fps2 fps1 fps0 |
| SYSTEM CONVERSION | t2 – RC | t3 – MP | t4 – SIC |
t5 – CCM | t6 – SUM |
| SAP S/4HANA 1909 | rc2 | link | link | link | prepare EHP6/mss |
| SAP S/4HANA 1809 |
link | link | link | EHP7/hdb EHP6/db6 EHP5/ora EHP6/mss |
| SAP S/4HANA ON-PREM APPLIANCE | INSTALL USING MEDIA | ACTIVATE FROM CAL |
| SAP S/4HANA 1909 | link – custom link – standard | link |
| SAP S/4HANA CERTIFICATION | |
| SAP S/4HANA Certification Exams through SAP Certification Hub | link |
This is the Video for SAP S/4HANA 1909 FPS0 (Please note its not for FPS1)
As a prep you may like to empty the download basket for your S-000 user so that any files added to the download basket are meant for this task and will help to ensure that only the required files are included.
As a prep you may like to empty the download basket for your S-000 user so that any files added to the download basket are meant for this task and will help to ensure that only the required files are included.
You need to login to Maintenance Planner to access system assigned to your S-user. Please ensure landscape data is uploaded to SAP support portal via LMDB of SAP Solution Manager. The diagram below shows the Maintenance planner cloud service and how it integrates with Customer system.
The source system is first defined in Maintenance planner (1) generates (2) stack.xml, used for (3) Installation and (4) Upgrade and then system is (5) registered with Solution Manager. The system data is synchronized with Landscape Management Database (LMDB). From LMDB the data is (6) uploaded to customer profile in SAP support portal. (7) Data Fetch occurs using Solman daily job – “Landscape Fetch”.
If there is issue in replicating you may be asked to apply Note 2186164 – Problem in replicating systems to Maintenance Planner
TIP: This data based on Customer Number is used by Maintenance Planner for all planning activities. Also ensure you use same Customer Number to define system in sapnet. Use the S-user id of this Customer Number.
Select the Fiori tile Plan for SAP S/4HANA
In the next screen,choose Install a new SAP S/4HANA system. Here you can click on the link for the SAP S/4HANA Installation Guide for the documentation and click on Next.
In the next screen enter SID = S4H; select Target Version = SAP S/4HANA 1909; Target Stack = 01 (02/2020) FP. The componnets SAP Predictive integrator, SAP HANA Rules Framework and selected by default. Click on Next.
TIP: The selection of component above will only download the files. You have to install them as per the procedure for the component.
In the next screen choose Co-deployed with Backend. Please refer SAP Fiori Deployment Options and Landscape recommendations for detailed information. Please select checkmark Target Product Instances as applicable depending on which SAP FontEnd Applications you need among Human Capital Management, Master Data Governance and Travel Management. 
In the next scree click on Continue Planning
In the next screen Click on Next
In the next screen select OS/DB dependent files checkmark Linux on x86_64 bit and click on Confirm Selection.
In the next screen click on Next.
Click on NON-ABAP and unselect the language files that are not required. Languages DE and EN are selected by default and cannot be unselected.
TIP: The files are only selected above for download. Later on during installation, you have to define the languages in the SUM tool.
In the next screen click on Download Stack XML, Download Stack Text File, Download PDF and Export to Excel to download the files to your desktop. Out of these you will have to ftp the stack.xml file to the server. It will look something like this – MP_Stack_1000889837_20200212_.xml
TIP: Before you click on Push to Download Basket on next screen, please ensure that download basket is empty so that the download contains only the files needed for SAP S/4HANA installation.
Click on Push to Download Basket. This will load the Download Basket with files you need.
In the pdf file downloaded above, in the Planned Changes section there is a link provided that takes you directly to Service Marketplace to download the media.
Download all the media and separate the following into separate directories for convenience under /sapmedia/download. This includes files from Maintenance Planner
You need the files below for the installation, please check if these are in download folder:
SWPM20SP05_0-80003424.SAR – Latest version of Software Provisioning Manager
SUM20SP07_0-80002456.SAR – Latest version of Software Update Manager
SAP HANA DATABASE:
Please refer SAP Note 2872472 – SAP S/4HANA 1909 Feature Package Stack 01: Additional Release Information for SAP HANA database release details. Please download the files below from
Software Downloads => SUPPORT PACKAGES AND PATCHES => SAP HANA PLATFORM EDITION => SAP HANA DATABASE 2.0
TIP: The minimum required revision of SAP HANA 2.0 is Support Package 04 Database Revision 044. However, please check Note to ensure there are no problems with this SAP HANA release. Refer 2655761 – SAP S/4HANA – restrictions and recommendations regarding specific revisions of SAP HANA database for use in SAP S/4HANA
IMDB_SERVER20_046_0-80002031.SAR – Latest version of SAP HANA Database as of this blog (Linux x86_64 64bit)
You also need to download latest version of the SAP HANA client from Software Downloads => SUPPORT PACKAGES AND PATCHES => SAP HANA PLATFORM EDITION => SAP HANA CLIENT 2.0
IMDB_CLIENT20_004_182-80002082.SAR – HANA Client (Linux x86_64 64bit)
If you want to install LiveCache you will require the SAP HANA database LCAPPS plugin from Software Downloads => SUPPORT PACKAGES AND PATCHES => SAP HANA PLATFORM EDIT 1.0 => SAP HANA LCAPPS => SAP HANA LCAPPS 1.00
IMDB_LCAPPS_2046_0-20010426.SAR – Corresponding version of SAP HANA LCAPPS (Linux x86_64 64bit)
Download all the media and separate the DB files IMDB* into separate directories for convenience under /sapmedia
OTHER FILES:
In addition, please download file for best practices content activation from SAP Note 2870570 – SAP S/4HANA 1909 – SAP S/4HANA 1909 FP-Stack 01 (02/2020) SAP Best Practices Content activation note
crlbag.p7s from https://tcs.mysap.com/crl/crlbag.p7s
COMPONENT FOR INCIDENTS:
You can open OSS messages using component BC-UPG-MP
OTHER REFERENCES:
Maintenance Planner – User Guide
Maintenance Planner Help Portal
Maintenance Planner – Frequently Asked Questions
Mahesh Sardesai
Product Expert – SAP S/4HANA
SAP note 2870570 is now available.
Hi Eric,
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Hi Mahesh,
Thanks for your blog, It's very useful for us. If possible can you blog on Migration steps as well...
I think there is no Blog explaining E2E Migration steps.
Hi Naveen,
There is a blog on Data Migration.
New Installation of S/4HANA 1909FPS0 – Part 5 – Direct Data Transfer using Migration Cockpit
Hi Mahesh,
I seem to be running into a problem when I select Select Additional Systems -> Frontend Server Selection -> Co-Deployed with Backend -> S4H. There are no options for me to select in the Target Version and Target Stack and I cannot go beyond the page. Please advise.
Thanks and Regards
Mathva
Hi Mathva,
I am not sure if this is due to license issue. Please send me the S user id to <email address removed by moderator> I can simulate and check.
Hi Mahesh,
Thanks for the reply. I have sent you the S User-ID to your email a few of days ago.
Regards,
Mathva
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Mynyna (SAP Community moderator)
Hi Mathva,
Thanks, I received it yesterday, 28th. I am not sure if you sent earlier. I have replied to your email address. Let me know.
Thanks,
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I have almost zero basis experience, but need to get a Test or Sandbox system up and running. This article seems brilliant as it seems like I would be able to do it by following the instructions. Thank you very much for this. I have just some questions that is still "grey".
Thanks
Hi Johan,
Please see SAP note below for supported OS platforms. Note 2235581 - SAP HANA: Supported Operating Systems
To Answer your question:
1. You cannot install S/4HANA on Windows x64_64.
2. For S/4HANA the minimum RAM is 128GB to install and tor really work on it 256GB is required.
- Mahesh
Hello Mahesh,
I have one question regarding upgrade, hope you can help.
My SAP system is on S4 HANA 1610, with the Central & Dialog instances on Solaris 10 while the HANA 2.0 Database runs on SUSE Linux.
Now I have to upgrade to S4 1909. However, in maintenance planner, I cannot see Solaris OS to download the kernel files (see screenshot below):
Screenshot
Is application server on Solaris no longer supported? PAM also does not give much info on that.
If this is true, then do I need to migrate the app server from Solaris to Linux? How to do that?
I cannot find much information on this issue out there, hope you can clarify, please.
regards,
Suraj
Hi Suraj,
Please find below:
Solaris OS is no longer supported. Please refer to SAP Note
SAP Note 2620910 – SAP S/4HANA 1511, 1610, 1709 and SAP BW/4HANA 1.0: Recommended Application Server Platforms
You have to migrate the app server. Ideally you can use the method as shown in opensap course along with the note: in week 1 unit 3 https://open.sap.com/courses/s4h14/items/1DTeJYu3iKPGGQBMT70gFF
Start from the middle of the video.
Hi Mahesh,
Thank you very much for the valuable info.
I read the note too.
Your video on Open SAP is very useful.
Keep up the good work!
I had a few questions just to close on that:
Kindly advise.
regards,
Suraj
Hi Suraj,
Please find my answers below:
Hi Mahesh,
I have a question. If I send the data to SLD via RZ70, then the date in SLD (last update) is only updated for the tenant DB.
The last update date is not updated for System DB.
Is this normal behavior?
Many Thanks
Best Regards
Hi Tatjana,
I think it should as per SAP Note 1052122 - Host names in SLD and LMDB
Hana hostnames in SLD are taken from profile parameter value of SAPDBHOST on ABAP. If you want to overwrite this value, please use SLDSYSTEMHOME parameter value in the global.ini file of the Hana.
Wiki: https://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/TechOps/Prepare+Managed+System+Setup+for+SAP+HANA#PrepareManagedSystemSetupforSAPHANA-RegisterHANAinSLD
If you still have issues please create OSS message so somebody can check the configuration.
Dear Sir ,
The document is good. Could you please give pointer to new B4HANA installation guide ?
Thanks and Regards,
Syam
Hi Rashmi,
This question is outside scope of this blog, but in any case all the BW/4HANA guides are in this link. You will have to download Master guide and follow.
https://help.sap.com/viewer/product/SAP_BW4HANA/2.0.6/en-US