In former Sybase times, it was quite easy to be informed about freshly released EBFs:
What are my options nowadays? It seems that
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Hi Volker, You are correct in that the EBF update mechanisms have changed by moving into the SAP support area. Here is the current status of these various mechanisms:
Thanks for the clarification, as usual it's helpful to know about the current status, the migration hurdles and the planned steps for improvements. (And I'm aware that you certainly would prefer to be able to announce that all previous Sybase facilities would have been replaced with working counterparts in the SAP world...) For the time being, I feel I will not yet consider that an "accepted" answer as it still requires "active polling". I hope Breck will continue to use his blog to notify others...
(27 Nov '14, 17:42)
Volker Barth
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Jeff, has there been improvements in the meantime? I guess I still have to check for updates manually (i.e. look for new SPs in the SAP Support Portal), which is certainly do-able but not really efficient... And neither the Update Checker (see below, altough in German) nor any other means seem to be available to tell me that there have been three new SPs in the meantime (SPs 88-90, EBFs 4231, 4266 and 4278). (And sadly, Breck has stopped has valuable overview.)
(23 Jun '15, 06:27)
Volker Barth
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This is not a complete answer, and I do not know how to get notifications either. However, I usually use direct links to patches that you can steal from IE. E.g. this link works in FF (private mode) - https://service.sap.com/sap/bc/bsp/spn/download_basket/download.htm?objid=012002523100018280622014D&action=DL_DIRECT (EBF 23745: 16.0.0 SP26 Build 2038)
Maybe this will help Breck to maintain the blog further.
So... do folks think the EBF blog posts were useful?
YES.
(That's a big yes.)
(That's not to say your other blog posts were less useful - please keep on...)
BTW: Your question would be an appropriate "poll" on this forum, wouldn't it? (Though I might add an "rhetorical-question" tag:))
Yes, why not? I read the pages from time to time. My RSS reader is subscribed to your blog.
A related question: Is anyone else using the free SA16 Developer Edition? I have 16.0.0.1948. Does anyone know if there is a later EBF, and how to get it?
Any official answer would be appreciated...