SAP Note 28716 - Upgrade appears to hang in the phase CON

Symptom:

The upgrade appears to hang in the phase CON when distributing the ABAP/4 Dictionary objects. With transaction SM50, you can tell that the program FORMINF is always active.

Cause and prerequisites

On the system tables systables, sysindexes and syscolumns, no 'Update statistics' was carried out.

Solution
Cancel the upgrade by shutting down R/3 and terminate tp ("kill -9"). R3up then comes back automatically with an error and does not have to be exited.

Log on as the user informix and execute the following command:

dbaccess -e - <adm; "startsap") and restart the upgrade ("repeat" in the R3up).

Additional key words

FORMINF, performance, upgrade, update