SAP S/4HANA Administration · Software Maintenance: Updates, SPAM & Add-ons

A SUM run is consuming disk fast and you need space. Which directory is actually growing, which one stays static, and what space signals demand action?

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If the archives are already in the download directory, why can't you just point SUM at them and skip the maintenance-planner stack XML?

Post-update you've run SPAU and SGEN. Which manual step is easy to forget, and what happens if you don't do it?

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