SL Toolset 1.

0 SPS 12
Maintenance Strategy
SAP AG, November 2014

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The SL Toolset maintenance strategy represents current planning for SL Toolset
only and not for the SAP products using SL Toolset and can be subject to further
changes without further notice.
This document is subject to change and may be changed by SAP at any time
without notice. The document is not intended to be binding upon SAP to any
particular course of business, product strategy and/or development.

SL Toolset 1.0
Maintenance Strategy

Recommended

Download possible

Patches
available

in maintenance

yes

yes

yes

patch on request

no

yes [on request]

yes [on request]

out of maintenance

no

no

no

Example: Update of an ERP 6.0 EHP5 to ERP 6.0 EHP7

Project start:

use the latest SL Toolset Stack when you start your project

December 2014

as soon as the next SL Toolset Stack is available, its predecessor

Planned project end: June 2015

passes into patch on request mode immediately

Used tool to apply EHP7: Software Update Manager

Documentation: latest guides are available on SMP only

SL Toolset 1.0 Stack

ERP Update Project

SPS 15
Use
Software Update Manager
1.0 SP 12 as part of SL
Toolset 1.0 SPS 12

SPS 14

Switch to SP 13
or keep
SP 12

in maintenance

SPS 12
SPS 11

in maintenance

in maintenance

SPS 13

in maintenance

July
2014
2014 SAP AG. All rights reserved.

November
2014

in maintenance

Switch to SP 14
or keep
SP 12 / 13

out of maintenance

patch on request

patch on request

out of maintenance

out of maintenance

patch on request

patch on request

April
2015*

patch on request

out of maintenance

* According to current plans

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