Administrators take note!
In case you missed it, the straight-forward upgrade between Service Packs has a little wrinkle that you need to be aware of.
Upgrading to XI 3.1 SP5
If it’s been a while since your last upgrade and you are still running BOE XI 3.1 SP2, you may be surprised to find out that you cannot go from SP2 to SP5 in a single upgrade. I don’t have the details as to why other than the fact that SAP Note: 1664385 tells us it’s not supported.
Only the following upgrades paths are supported:
- BOE XI 3.1 + SP3 + SP5
- BOE XI 3.1 + SP2 + SP3+ SP5
- BOE XI 3.1 + SP2 + SP4+ SP5
- BOE XI 3.1 + SP3 + SP4+ SP5
I read through the note and there wasn’t any additional explanation as to why, but you can see for yourself:
https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1664385
Remember: Always read the release notes.
«Good BI»
Yet upgrading SP3 directly to SP5 is not possible, or at least was not possible in my case:
I upgraded 12.1.0.882 (BO XI 3.1) to 12.3.0.601 (SP3) and this upgrade went fine but then when I tried to apply SP5, it complained very clearly about it: “SAP Business enterprise XI 3.1 SP5 Update can not install because the version of the product on the system is too low”
Hi David ,
Thanks for ur blogs and posts on sap bo .
We are using sap bo 3.1sp3 and oracle data base .Now we are planning to install sp7 reason (IE 11 required ).before installing ,we need to install sp5 . what are the step required to follow before installing sp7 and after installing what are issues we may face normally …if u don’t mine can u share some document abt installation and issue .it will be great helpful to me .David sir