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former_member195641 · 10-06-2020

Earlier this year, in March 2020, we have published a blog entry about the new implementation of the Database Migration Option (DMO) in the SAP Software Update Manager (SUM) for the combined upgrade and conversion from SAP on IBM i to SAP S/4HANA rel...

former_member195641 · 03-24-2020

The SAP Software Logistics Toolset 1.0 SPS 28 was released on January 20th, 2020. This toolset also includes the component SAP Software Update Manager 2.0 SP07 (SUM 2.0 SP07), which allows to run SAP system maintenance operations, such as applying su...

former_member195641 · 08-24-2018

Over the past years, management of software life cycle tasks have evolved to the point that SAP has consolidated and bundled different tools and invented the SAP Software Update Manager (SUM). This tool provides different ways to run maintenance task...

former_member195641 · 04-08-2016

The “i” in platform name IBM i stays for “integrated”. Besides the traditional command line interface, there are many other software products, components and features, such asThe relational SQL database DB2 for IBM iHardware virtualization solutions ...

former_member195641 · 12-16-2015

In order to run your SAP Business Warehouse with optimal performance, you need to ensure that all your indexes are created correctly. Running SAP on IBM i, you can also use Encoded Vector Indexes (EVI). An EVI is used to provide fast data access in d...

former_member195641 · 05-20-2021

Hello Julian,a single LPAR runs a single IBM i OS on a certain level (e.g. IBM i V 7.4). Every SAP system installed on that LPAR (e.g. for Dev, QA and Prod) runs therefore with the same OS level.you can imagine splitting up that LPAR into 2 LPAR's ru...

former_member195641 · 08-28-2018

Hello Rüdiger, yes, you can go ahead and run 2 different SUM's even if they have different versions (in your case SUM 1.0 and SUM 2.0). The library SAP_TOOLS is only required to provide the needed tools to set the correct authorizations for the ...

former_member195641 · 04-12-2016

Hello Raoul,I'm sorry for this inconvenience but, unfortunately, there was a new bug in the SUM tool found. Currently there is no workaround available but a program fix needed. I recently created SAP Note 2304575 which will get visible as of today th...

former_member195641 · 06-05-2014

Hello Raja,please check first if you can rebuild the cube from any internal source (DSO, PSA or other cubes) of your system. Well, it's more likely that you do not have all the data available anymore.Another relatively easy way is to create a clone o...

former_member195641 · 06-27-2013

Hello Matt,the SAP note mentioned by Deepak is correct. Upgrades of SAP Java stacks to a target release 7.30 or higher always require to be switched to a JDBC 4.0 compliant driver. Well, the name of the driver is the same and you cannot quickly disti...

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