SAP Note 19380 - General questions on the installation of IS-H

Symptom:

Information for

• Contracts Department

• Dispatch

• Sales and Distribution

• New customers

Other terms

Industry Business Solution IS-H, delivery dates, new installation

Reason and Prerequisites

Questions concerning new IS-H installations
Current situation, platforms, combinations with other Industry Business Solutions, dates, non-supported SAP releases

Solution

1. Current status:

At present, the following IS-H release is supported (since CW 20/2004):
IS-H 4.72 on Enterprise 47x110 SR1 or Enterprise 47x200
(Patch level 17 of SAP_APPL is the minimum prerequisite. For a productive use of IS-H 4.72, the application of CRT 1 for SAP_APPL 18-20 is mandatory!)
The material number of the current installation CD is 51020649.
Apart from IS-H 4.72, the CD also contains Patch 1.

2. Maintenance levels or Support Packages to be imported additionally

For 4.03A: See release strategy Note 109193
For 4.03x (x > B): See Note 160083
For 4.61 track: See Note 213747
For 4.62 track: See Note 329772
For 4.63: See Note 434223
For 4.63B: See Note 528323
For 4.71: See Note 605628
For 4.72: See Note 703635

As of 4.63, upgrades to IS-H releases are only sent if you place a corresponding order for them with the Contracts Department of the international subsidiary responsible. When placing such orders, remember to include your installation number.
The same applies to Support Releases.
Support Packages are to be downloaded from the SAPNet. A collection of Support Packages is available on the Support Release CDs. Every Support Release CD contains the add-on Support Packages of the previous release (for example, the CD for Support Release 4.62C contains the add-on Support Packages for 4.62B).
If no more Support Releases are to be created within a maintenance track, a collection CD shall still be created for the add-on Support Packages of the last Support Release.

3. Release strategy

Basically, there will be no new installations on functional releases (for example 4.6A).
Also refer to the release strategy Note 212075.

4. Restrictions with specific platforms (OS/DB)

There are currently no restrictions concerning specific platforms.

5. Languages

The following languages are currently supported:

• English

• Dutch

• Spanish

• French

• Italian

• Greek (as of 4.63, shipped by international subsidiary Greece)

• Turkey (as of 4.63, shipped by international subsidiary Turkey)

• Hebrew (shipped by an SAP partner)

6. Combinations of different Industry Business Solutions.

Combinations of different Industry Business Solutions must be released explicitly. At the moment, the following combinations are released:

• Combination IS-H with HR-PSG and/or IS-PS. Express authorization for HR-PSG is necessary only up to 4.0B since HR-PSG is part of the SAP CORE as of 4.5A.

• All other combinations with IS-H are not released. The following add-ons or plug-ins, and so on, do not need a special release and are allowed with all add-ons:

• PI (mandatory as of 4.61A)

• WP-PI

• YEAR2000

• P9M (Ready-to-Run R/3)

• PDB ADD-ON

7. Duration of an IS-H installation

The IS-H installation can take between 2 to 5 hours, depending on the computer. This estimation does not include preparations or data backup activities.

8. Overview of IS-H notes

An overview of all the useful IS-H notes on the topics installation, upgrade, release policy, and so on, can be found in Note 108123 (4.0), Note 212072 (4.6), and Note 605618 (4.7).