Project Shark - phase 1 - Install ERP6 EHP7 on Windows 2012 / SQL server

1. download the latest version of SWPM

2. Using SAP's specific tool SAPCAR to extract SWPM

Start installation

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Install SQL Server

Patch SQL Server

Continue install SAP, may need to re-start the sapinst GUI

Troubleshooting

1. when the import was interruptted the TSK file could have been damaged. Then you'll have to merge these two files

Before the merge the .TSK looks like:

STEP 1 ok

STEP 2 ok

STEP 3 ok



The .TSK.bck looks like:

STEP 1 xeq

STEP 2 xeq

STEP 3 xeq

STEP 4 xeq

STEP 5 xeq

...





After the merge the .TSK will look like:

STEP 1 ok

STEP 2 ok

STEP 3 ok

STEP 4 err

STEP 5 err

...



This means R3load will cleanup/restart STEP 4.

1. sometimes the installation GUI will disppear but the backend daemon is still running. You can re-start the GUI by running sapinstgui.exe

I got an error at phase 16 (Import ABAP) during the SAP installation:

Retry:

Log:

Error Code 103??

Detail:

ERROR: 2016-10-07 01:53:22 com.sap.inst.migmon.LoadTask run
Loading of 'SAPSSEXC' import package is interrupted with R3load error.
Process 'E:\usr\sap\TR1\SYS\exe\uc\NTAMD64\R3load.exe -i SAPSSEXC.cmd -dbcodepage 4103 -l SAPSSEXC.log -loadprocedure fast' exited with return code 2.
For mode details see 'SAPSSEXC.log' file.
Standard error output:
E:\usr\sap\TR1\SYS\exe\uc\NTAMD64\R3load.exe=>sapparam(1c): No Profile used.
E:\usr\sap\TR1\SYS\exe\uc\NTAMD64\R3load.exe=>sapparam: SAPSYSTEMNAME neither in Profile nor in Commandline

Any idea?

Thanks!
Bruce

Hi Bruce,

To be able to start troubleshooting, you'd like to check the actual errors in the log directory, which in your case will be, uder C:\Program Files\sapinst_instdir\BS2013SR2\ERP607SR2\MSS\INSTALL\STD\ABAP

Normally these log files are sorted by time so if you look through them one by one you'll be able to find the culprit

ERROR: 2016-10-07 01:53:22 com.sap.inst.migmon.LoadTask run
Loading of 'SAPSSEXC' import package is interrupted with R3load error.
Process 'E:\usr\sap\TR1\SYS\exe\uc\NTAMD64\R3load.exe -i SAPSSEXC.cmd -dbcodepage 4103 -l SAPSSEXC.log -loadprocedure fast' exited with return code 2.
For mode details see 'SAPSSEXC.log' file.
Standard error output:
E:\usr\sap\TR1\SYS\exe\uc\NTAMD64\R3load.exe=>sapparam(1c): No Profile used.
E:\usr\sap\TR1\SYS\exe\uc\NTAMD64\R3load.exe=>sapparam: SAPSYSTEMNAME neither in Profile nor in Commandline

Any idea?

Thanks!
Bruce

Hi Adam,

I followed your instruction and eventually found the below error:

(TSK) ERROR: file C:\Program Files\sapinst_instdir\BS2013SR2\ERP607SR2\MSS\INSTALL\STD\ABAP\SAPSSEXC.TSK.bck already seems to exist
a previous run may not have been finished cleanly
file C:\Program Files\sapinst_instdir\BS2013SR2\ERP607SR2\MSS\INSTALL\STD\ABAP\SAPSSEXC.TSK possibly corrupted

I try to manually merge SAPSSEXC.TSK and SAPSSEXC.TSK.bck according to your case, but the system doesn't allow me to save the file. (message: Access is denied". How shall I proceed? Thanks!

Hi Bruce,

Since your ID is administrator of that windows 2012 VM, so you should be able to overwrite the files in any drives.

You can try to do either any of the following:

Method A: open notepad as Administrator, then edit the file

Method B

1. save your merged file SAPSSEXC.TSK to somewhere else, for example, C:\temp

2. rename C:\Program Files\sapinst_instdir\BS2013SR2\ERP607SR2\MSS\INSTALL\STD\ABAP\SAPSSEXC.TSK to SAPSSEXC.TSK1, rename C:\Program Files\sapinst_instdir\BS2013SR2\ERP607SR2\MSS\INSTALL\STD\ABAP\SAPSSEXC.TSK.bck to SAPSSEXC.TSK.bck1. If you see any warnings, just click 'continue'

3. move the SAPSSEXC.TSK(from step 1, C:\temp) to C:\Program Files\sapinst_instdir\BS2013SR2\ERP607SR2\MSS\INSTALL\STD\ABAP\

I followed your instruction and eventually found the below error:

(TSK) ERROR: file C:\Program Files\sapinst_instdir\BS2013SR2\ERP607SR2\MSS\INSTALL\STD\ABAP\SAPSSEXC.TSK.bck already seems to exist
a previous run may not have been finished cleanly
file C:\Program Files\sapinst_instdir\BS2013SR2\ERP607SR2\MSS\INSTALL\STD\ABAP\SAPSSEXC.TSK possibly corrupted

I try to manually merge SAPSSEXC.TSK and SAPSSEXC.TSK.bck according to your case, but the system doesn't allow me to save the file. (message: Access is denied". How shall I proceed? Thanks!