How to identify side effect notes for a specific ABAP Support package?

This article answers following queries:

• How to retrieve list with Side Effects for ABAP support package?
• How to identify side effect notes for a specific ABAP Support package?
• How can we find delivered sap notes and side effects of a support package?
• While planning to update or upgrade a support package, how to determine side effects?

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Please logon to SAP launch pad.

Launchpad.support.sap.com

On that screen:

1. Please select “Downloads” from the dropdown
2. Specify ABAP support package name for which you want to identify side effects
3. Click on search (as shown in below snapshot)

It will result in below screen

Please make sure you are under “AVAILABLE TO DOWNLOAD” tab and click on “Content Info” icon under Related Info column as shown above.

This will result in below screen.

Under “SAP Notes” section, all the relevant notes for the specified support package will be listed.

Please navigate to “SOLUTIONS FOR SIDE EFFECTS” tab to have an overview of all side effects related to the specified support package (as shown below).

For example, if you want to upgrade from your current support pack level SAPKB74012 to SAPKB74016 and you wish to identify all the side effect details, please select source support package as shown in the below screen.

As of now, side effect reporting is available only for ABAP support packages. 

Side effect reporting is not yet available for Java support packages and patches. This is the only limitation.