Diary of a Confused DBA…..

This is the page where I have started collecting minute notes. With hope
for better re-usability of my small pica notes kept in different
locations…like in my Diary, wallet, and even in mutilated piece of
paper….The Nature of this page is of frequent change, more appropriate
addition. Here I start:

• This is for updating IGS. – Added on 23/10/2009.
• At the most I can only write mostly the
  reference link Installing
  and updating IGS. In text the link is
  “http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04s/helpdata/en/4b/72d43ac66e1f08e10000000a114084/content.htm”
  ….This is kept here in case you need to build one such references of your
  open. Here is simpler summary for doing the things in war footing. This is
  normally done as you do in case of kernel update…
• Download IGS from service.sap.com/download. We
  need to download the executables (igsexe*.sar) as well as IGS folder
  structure..(igshelper*.sar). Use SAPCAR to extract the same.
• Backup the kernel.
• Extract the file in the same fashion and same
  location as you do in case of kernel upgrade.
• IGS folder upgrade directory required to be
  extracted in the instance directory..(DIR_INSTANCE). Here is one catch,
  better to admit, I was actually looking in to the OS searching an OS
  environment variable with the name DIR_INSTANCE. In vain, I didn’t find one
  there…and actually it was my mistake, this is a directory defined in SAP
  and can be seen using transaction AL11.
• Related notes to be checked for the same are as
  under…
• Note 19466 – Downloading SAP kernel patches
• Note 1028690 – True Type Fonts delivered with
  IGS
• Note 896400 – Upgrade your integrated IGS 7.x
  installation.
• This is for update and upgrade for BI Content – Added on 24/10/2009.
• Following notes are very important and always
  better to read before upgrade/delta upgrade/update BI-CONT. These notes
  further refer to some other notes, especially 1000822.
• Note 653814 – BI Content add-on dependencies for
  NetWeaver/SAP_BW.
• Note 955647 – BI_CONT 703: Information on Add-On
  Support Packages.
• Note 1000822 – Overview: Notes for BI_CONT
  add-on.