Showing posts with label ONE Support Launchpad. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ONE Support Launchpad. Show all posts

Thursday, August 24, 2023

Unavailable SAP Notes

There are a few cases when SAP Notes or Knowledge Base Articles (KBA) are not available to be viewed on SAP for Me (formerly ONE Support Lunchpad (OSS)) site.

 

1. SAP Note/KBA XXXXXXX is being updated. This happens when there is a new version of particular Note being prepared. As usually the Notes has initially a version in its master language it can be that, there is a few days delay when the Note is translated (e.g. from German to English). The translation part can cause that delay. If the Note is still not around for a few days, you can approach the SAP via e.g. social media and ask for the Note. That usually helps to speed up the updating process.

What makes it a bit unfortunate and frustrating too is that during the updating the former version of the Note is not accessible either. This issue was raised many times to SAP however it is not solved yet. SAP claims that sometimes the old version is not correct (even it can be harmful) thus they decided to take the whole Note offline for a while.

 

2. Sorry! You are not entitled to access SAP Note/KBA. This message is so called a maintenance terminated status. The message is present when customer number to which your support site user is linked to lost an access to the software component which the Note is related to. Means that e.g. license to that software is not provisioned or wasn’t provision to your customer number. In this  case you need to raise this issue to your SAP representative (account manager).


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Thursday, May 12, 2022

SAP for Me and SAP Support Portal vs ONE Support Launchpad

In my post, I do mention supports sites of SAP a lot. They are quite useful to search for an information about SAP products, issues, how-tos, also to request license keys, support or to download SAP software.  As there are many names for those sites I recon it can be useful to mention the latest ones.

In past we normally referred to these sites as SAP Support Portals either as OSS (Online Support System) or later as SMP (Service Market Place). Nowadays we can distinguish between two main support landing pages:

 

SAP Support Portal is one stop for all support and service related needs of SAP customers. It can be used to access the software, download the software, request license keys, get technical support, get an information about the software solution and find the documentation. Link: support.sap.com

 

ONE Support Launchpad is the new version of the Service Market Place (SMP) for all SAP customers. Link: launchpad.support.sap.com the site will soon transaction to SAP for Me that will be single entry point to all support site of SAP. Right now, the SAP for Me serves as a place to improve SAP customer experience throughout all touch-points with SAP. A list of all product’s portfolio, finance and legal stuff with customer relation to SAP is available there, other areas are service and support and systems and provisioning among other things are available via the SAP for Me site.


More information:

OSS

SMP

SAP Support Portal

SAP ONE Support Launchpad