How to handle SAP note cannot be downloaded issue?

This article answers following queries:

• Unable to download SAP note. How to resolve it?
• Error while downloading SAP note. How to resolve it?
• How to resolve SAP note download issue in SAP system?
• How to handle SAP note cannot be downloaded issue?
• What actions need to be performed to resolve SAP note download issue?
• How to fix “Error while downloading SAP note in transaction SNOTE. Message No. SCWN107” issue?

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Sometimes, while you are attempting to download an SAP note in SAP system through SNOTE transaction code, you might encounter issues and you many see messages as below:

Error occurred while downloading SAP note xxxyyy

Message No. SCWN107

The reason behind this issue is because of SE06 (System change Option) settings.To resolve the issue, we need to execute SE06 transaction code, which results in following screen.

Please click on “System change option” which results in following screen.

In the above screen, please make sure Global setting is set as “Modifiable” or “Restricted Modifiable”. If that setting is not maintained, you won’t be able to download SAP notes through SNOTE transaction code.

Also, please make sure all SAP related Software components and Namespace/Name Rage are set to “Modifiable” or “Restricted Modifiable”.

Usually, in Development systems,  Global settings are maintained as “Modifiable” which enables us to download SAP notes. In Production systems, mostly Global setting will be set as “Non modifiable”. 

In such cases there are 2 options as below:

First option is to download note in Development system and transport it to subsequent systems (or)

Second option is to download note by temporarily modifying Global settings in respective system and revert the original settings

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