How to check the publishing Date of an Internet Service

It is useful to know when an ITS Service was last published to the Integrated ITS; this is especially useful to know if Basis Support Packs have been applied to the WAS(Web Application Server).

Then one can compare the ITS publishing information V's the importation information for the SAP_BASIS Support Pack in transaction SPAM.

Solution

Here are the steps to check the publishing date for the well known ITS Service "ITSMOBILE". (The same method can be used for all ITS Services)

1. Open transaction SE80 and choose the Repository Browser
2. Select: Internet Service.
3. Type in ITSMOBILE
4. Hit "Enter" OR click on the  icon
5. Double click on the "ITSMOBILE" folder
   
   
   
6. On the right hand panel click on tab "Attributes"
   
   
   
7. This tab will obtain the publishing information for the service ITSMOBILE
   
   It is visible that the service ITSMOBILE was published the 20th of November 2019 at 12h42:18.

Do also the same for an individual templates to see if the publishing date matches  

5(a). Drill down the ITSMOBILE tree to one of the HTML templates and double click on the template

6(a). On the right hand panel click on tab "Attributes"

7(a). This tab will obtain the publishing information for the template ALV_GRID (in this example).

Does the publishing date differ from the ITSMOBILE folder(STEP 7)? YES, it does in this case. Note the date and follow the next steps.

It is visible that the template ALV_GRID was published the 16th of October 2020 at 14h43:19.

Transaction SPAM 

Once the WEBGUI/ITS Service publishing date is known one can check if new SAP_BASIS have been applied since the ITS Service was last published.

Call transaction SPAM. Select "Imported Support Packages". Click on Display (10)

On the resulting screen - the relevant information from an ITS Perspective is the importation of the SAP_BASIS support package.

In this case, the last importation of a SAP_BASIS Support Package into the WAS was Basis Support Page 13 and it was imported the 25th of September 2007. (11)

Conclusion

The ITS Service ITSMOBILE does not need to be republished as its publishing date is newer than the importation of the last SAP_BASIS Support Package into the WAS.

We also know that the template ALV_GRID was published at a later date than the ITSMOBILE service.

This would indicate that this template was modified manually or via a note correction and was published on its own. It is always useful to check dates of individual templates because they can have an older publishing date than the general service folder. If that is the case then we also need to check the date against the date of the last importation of a SAP_BASIS Support Package into the WAS.  

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