Hi, all
Thanks for your feedback. After countless number of restart of SUM and the ABAP system, doing small fixes here and there, I have finally patched the vanilla system to SP7. By the way, I resolved the issue by clearing the TPRI_PAR table since this is a brand new installation. I have restarted 5 or 6 times both SUM and SAP itself and still stuck. There is absolutely no movement on the tmp or log directory ... the transaction in v$transaction was stuck for over 3 hours. So I know something is screwed up in SUM.
Overall, SUM is an absolute nightmare to patch the NW731 ABAP system. I have done the same for the PO 731 system(also brand new) and SUM works much better. SAP used to have a better development team on ABAP than java. Now they all suck. They may have also layed off their QA department as the customers are the best testers and are free.
Thanks,
Jonathan.