Update ABAP and HANA License for the ABAP Platform, Developer Edition for Docker

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Unfortunately the ABAP Platform, Developer Edition for Docker is currently not available for installation. But for everyone who still uses it I will quickly describe how you can update the ABAP and HANA License. The blog post by andre.fischer on How to install a new license in your SAP ABAP Platform Developer Edition isn't helping anymore as the license that you can download from https://developers.sap.com/trials-downloads.html?search=ABAP+Platform expired on 11th August 2022.

For me this resulted in the error message:

JCO_ERROR_SYSTEM_FAILURE: Error DBSQL_SQL_ERROR occured. 

SQL=437 P3=SQL message: only commands for license handling are allowed in current state

Luckily I got help from marcbernardtools in the abapGit Slack. Here are the steps I did:

Most of the information you need is provided during startup of the container. There you will see the following:

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Retrieving HDB license information

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HDB Hardware Key : B1002322283

HDB Expiration Date: 2022-09-07 23:59:59

Days to expire : 26

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Updating HDB license: found the file /opt/sap/HDB_license

Removing the current HANA License

0 rows affected (overall time 18.948 msec; server time 17.791 msec)

0 rows affected (overall time 50.497 msec; server time 49.373 msec)

Installing the license from the file /opt/sap/HDB_license

Welcome to the SAP HANA Database interactive terminal.



Type: \h for help with commands 

\q to quit 

* 437: only commands for license handling are allowed in current state SQLSTATE: HY000

0 rows affected (overall time 427.658 msec; server time 424.146 msec)

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hdb_license_update: started, pid=1585

asabap_license_update: starting

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Retrieving AS ABAP license information

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SAP License Key Administration - Copyright (C) 2003 - 2016 SAP AG

System ID. . . . : A4H

Hardware Key . . : J1851296352 (of this computer)

Installation No. : DEMOSYSTEM

System No. . . . : 000000000800588472

Release. . . . . : 777

Software products: NetWeaver_HDB

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AS ABAP license can be automatically renewed from the file /opt/sap/ASABAP_license

Hint: new container : docker run ... -v <local file path>:/opt/sap/ASABAP_license

Hint: existing container: docker cp <local file path> <container name>:/opt/sap/ASABAP_license

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That's most of the information you need to renew your license. You can get a new license for ABAP and HANA at https://go.support.sap.com/minisap/#/minisap for ABAP choose A4H - SAP NetWeaver AS ABAP 7.4 and above (Linux / SAP HANA) and for HANA use HDB - SAP HANA Platform Edition (64GB).

Before you can use the downloaded license files you need to replace the SYSTEM-NR with the corresponding number that was displayed during startup. Then copy the files as described, stop and start the container.