Rename of any SAP SID on HANA – Step by Step procedure before moving to suite on HANA
Hello SCN Technical Members,
During HANA Migration using DMO process, we renamed SAP Netweaver SAP SID to avoid any conflict with existing landscape to run both BW Portal in parallel after migration. First step was to split ABAP+JAVA running on BW 7.01 then renaming ABAP and JAVA SIDs as per technical and business requirements. We captured details steps by step guidelines for helping other member out working on similar scenarios.
Rename of SAP Netweaver SID on HANA
for on-premise SoH/BWoH
Start Rename for PAS –
Source SID –
Target SID –
Get new license for renamed SID system.
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Thanks for the useful blog. Would like to understand the runtime of below tasks for your environment. (FYI, we have a 400 GB BW 7.3 system on HANA database, being proposed for SID change).
Any feedback would be appreciated.