How To Implement SAP Note

How to implement SAP Note:

As a Basis administrator we need to implement SAP notes
where there is a requirement from technical team or from
functional team to fix an bug in a program.
SAP note is nothing but an program fix which is released
by SAP to all users or specific users
There are some consideration/prerequisites check needs
to be performed while you do SAP note implementation
because.
For an example below note 1896115 used to fix an LSMW
error, so we should know or check whether this note is
compatible with our SAP release hence check component
release provided in the SAP note document.
Follow below steps to implement sap note:
1. Go to SNOTE tcode and select Goto from the menu
bar and select SAP Note browser and enter the note
number which you want to implement to check whether
this note is already available in your system or not

2. Enter the note number which you want to implement

and press F8 or click execute button and you will get
above button which shows note number, description,
component version, status, and importantly
Implementation Status

3. You need to check all the above details and check

Implementation Status whether this note can be
implemented to your SAP release its compatible if it
shows Can be implemented or it can be implemented
and you need to notify concern team about the status
4. So above note can be implemented and now we need
to proceed further to implement SAP note
5. Select the line which shows note number and details
and go to SAP Note from the menu bar
6. Select Implement SAP note from SAP Note menu and
you will get below screen

7. You will get a notification window which ask you

whether you want to implement the SAP note and click
Yes to continue
8. An pop up window will appear which shows what kind
of fix its going to perform in your SAP system or it will ask
you to do some series of steps(like step 10) to implement
your SAP note you can click continue like below

9. It will ask you to create a TR which can be moved

across your landscape and note down the TR

10. Then it will ask you to click the check box and click
continue to perform the fix like below screens will appear

11. Click continue and it will show you active object

generated which means your SAP note is implemented
in your system
12. You will redirected to below screen once it completed
sap note implementation here you will notice status In
Progress and Implementation Status as Completely
implemented and you will see an message in the status
bar object activated

13. Now double click the SAP note and you will get below
screen to change status to completed

14. Click Set Processing Status to change completed,

select completed option in the below window and hit
continue

15. Now you can see Processing Status as Finished

16. Then come to initial screen of SNOTE tcode and

browse the sap note number which we implemented and
hit execute to double check the status and you will get
below screen and status as Completely Implemented

17. Thats it you have done with SAP note implementation

and make sure you release the TR which you created
while implementing your SAP note to move the changes
to landscape, now send an confirmation email to concern
team about SAP note implementation completion

How to apply a note in SAP system ?

How to apply a note in SAP system ?
This article answers the following queries :

What is SAP note ?

What is the use of SNOTE transaction code ?

How to apply a SAP note in SAP system?

What is SAP Note ?

SAP releases notes on regular basis to provide the corrections/minor
improvements to the existing bugs/issues/functionalities. Since periodicity of
release of Support packages is very less, to resolve customer issues SAP
releases notes to customers on regular basis to fix bugs.
What is the use of SNOTE transaction code ?
A note can be applied in SAP system using SNOTE transaction.
How to apply a note in SAP System ?
Before applying any note, please download SAP note. Go to SNOTE
transaction and navigate as shown below and download the note that is to
be applied

Enter the note number to be downloaded and press execute button to

download the note as shown below

You can view the downloaded note in the New section under SAP notes as
shown below.
Once the note got downloaded, to implement the note, select the note as
shown below and click on execute button to implement SAP note

After that, system prompts you to confirm that you have read the note.
Please make sure you have read the note thoroughly before you implement
the note. Please find out the applicability of the note to your system by
cross-checking with the system SAP release/version/database etc.

As shown above press Yes button to confirm that you have read the note and
proceed further.

In the information popup window, press continue as shown above.

After that, systems prompts for transportable workbench request. Please
click on create request button as shown in below screen.

In the create request popup screen, please provide request details and save
to create request as shown below screens

After that, list of changes that are being made will be displayed as shown
below. Click on continue button to proceed to apply the changes

Click on continue button in the below screen to proceed further

Once the SAP got implemented successfully, it moves from New section to
Processing section as shown below