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How to update SPAM/SAINT tool ?

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SPAM stands for Support Package Manager. It is used to import support packages. SAP recommends to use the latest version of SPAM to avoid
any known issues.

Pre-requisite
There should be no terminated packages in the queue. If there is, then you have below 2 options:

1) Import the entire queue and then start with the SPAM update.

2) Delete the queue if it has not yet reached phase SCHEDULE_RDDIMPDP. Then, update the SPAM tool and import the queue.

Check the current version of your SPAM tool by executing SPAM transaction

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Download
Open the Software Downloads, then click on “Access downloads” under “Support Packages & Patches”.

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Go to “By Category” –>Additional Components –> SAP SPAM/SAINT Update. Select the version as per the version on your system.

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Then click on the latest available file to download it. In our case, we were on 75, So we downloaded patch level 78.

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Update SPAM/SAINT
Login to client 000 and execute SPAM transaction and upload the downloaded file. Load packages –> from Front End. It will take some time to
upload the file. Then a pop-up will appear to decompress the file. Click ok.

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Then to start the update, go to “Support Package” –>”Import SPAM/SAINT update”. Here, we should see the downloaded version. In our case, it is
SAPKD74078.

After few minutes, we should see below screen which means the update was successful.

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Verification
Execute SPAM to verify the new patch level of the SPAM tool.

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