Application lifecycle management
As a permanent or reliable backbone
All backbone connections to SAP will be switched from January 1, 2020, as SAP has announced on its support page. Afterwards, communication between ABAP System and SAP will only take place via secure HTTPS connections, for which a dedicated user must also be requested in the Support Portal. In all ABAP systems, SAP hints can no longer be obtained via SNOTE via the old OSS RFC connection. The shipment of Early Watch Alerts to SAP is also affected by this change. Here the shipping route must also be changed to the new HTTPS standard. There is also a great need for action for all SAP customers without a current SAP Solution Manager. In the future, SAP Solution Manager 7.2 SPS08 (SPS07 only with additional information) will be required here. For all older releases, communication with SAP will also be impossible from January 2020. This primarily affects the data in the Maintenance Planner, which are then no longer synchronised. This then indirectly affects all future maintenance projects where the use of the Maintenance Planner is indispensable. Especially with regard to upcoming S/4 HANA migrations, this represents a risk to be avoided.
In the event of a very high-priority malfunction (e.g. system shutdown of the SAP system) and inaccessibility of the support or SAP Solution Manager Portal of Deutsche Telekom, SAP Support is directly accessible via the SAP Local Support Centre (24/7). With the reason that Deutsche Telekom is currently not available as a partner for a problem notification, you can open your message directly to SAP. SAP Support will contact you or Telekom immediately with your escalation contact.
Access to a pre-configured demo environment enriched with sample data
As mentioned above, there are clear overlaps in SAP Support and SAP Application Management Services, and even after this post you may have unresolved questions. So please do not hesitate to contact us and we will advise you on what services you need for your circumstances and what support is the right one. As a complete SAP service provider, we offer you everything you need as a SAP customer in our SAP Carecenter. Contact us without obligation and we will inform you about our comprehensive services.
In order to support your existing teams, our central European technical service team is responsible for remote monitoring and technical interventions and 24/7 operation. This service has already been honoured several times for its customer satisfaction, and our 25-strong team is always on standby to be there for you when needed. Technical support includes: Technical Incident Handling - urgent support if SAP's stability or performance is impaired / Technical services on-demand / System check-up on demand.
Some missing SAP support functions in the standard are supplied by the PC application "Shortcut for SAP Systems".
If you encounter error messages, such as SAP transaction errors or other problems related to the use of SAP systems, our SAP support staff will be happy to help you quickly.
To ensure the communication of the ABAP systems also for the future, the SAP has provided the note 2738426.