SAP on DB2 for i

Presentation SAP Kernel Enhancements on IBM i (PDF 159 KB) New!

The SAP Kernel for SAP on IBM i has been enhanced in structure and handling with SAP Kernel releases 7.10 and 7.20. This presentation gives a short overview of the most important improvements. It was published in the Landscape Design and Architecture area of SCN.

20 Sep 2011

SAP JVM 4 as Replacement for Partner JDKs 1.4.2 (PDF 60KB) New!

SAP developed its own Java Virtual Machine (JVM) 1.4.2, named SAP JVM 4, to ensure the guaranteed support for SAP Web Application Server 6.40 and SAP NetWeaver 7.0 systems. The replacement is required because of end of support for the partner JDK 1.4.2 solutions.

01 Sep 2011

Support for SAP R/3 4.6C on IBM i 7.1

Maintenance of  SAP R/3 4.6C has in general been extended by SAP until 2013 after certification of OS release IBM i 7.1. In order to cover up to date releases within this timeframe it was decided to add support for this combination as of June 6th, 2011. Precondition for utilizing SAP R/3 4.6C on IBM i 7.1 is a patch level of 2582 for the 4.6D kernel.  For more details look up note 68440 and the Product Availability Matrix PAM (SMP login required for both links).

09 Jun 2011

SAP on IBM i Solid State Disk (SSD) Usage Recommendations (PDF 184KB)

SAP system response times are sometimes constrained by the available I/O performance. SSD drives offer superior I/O performance compared to spinning disks. The IBM i operating system provides build in storage management functions to fully exploit the benefits of SSD. This white paper provides step by step instructions of how to move relevant SAP data to SSD to improve runtime performance of SAP systems.

03 Dec 2010

Update: Improve Upgrade Performance (PDF 162KB)

IBM has published a whitepaper dealing with upgrade performance of SAP systems on IBM i. The joint IBM/SAP team recently released several improvements in upgrade performance that are now presented in a comprehensive document. (Jan. 28, 2009)
Update: Improved parallel processing of ALTER TABLE statements is included in the whitepaper. (Feb. 23, 2010)
Update: The SAP on IBM ABAP Upgrade Performance white paper has been refreshed with recent information about available improvements. (Dec 2010)

11 Feb 2011

SAP Database multi-connect for IBM i DB2 for AIX is generally available

The new SAP database driver allows SAP application servers running on AIX to natively connect to any IBM i DB2/400 database over a secondary connection.

This exemplifies one major benefit of SAP having moved to DBSL Direct Drive (XDN) technology - total independence from a separate database client. SAP has the potential to offer database connectivity to IBM i from any platform that SAP supports; independent of IBM development involvement.

03 Dec 2010

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