IBM AIX

Simplification, automation and quick response to business needs is a requirement for most of our clients. Typically, customers run a number of SAP systems. Each system consists of one or more database instances (SAP HANA, IBM Db2, Oracle) and... Read More »

The cleanipc command is used to clear the shared memeory occupied by the SAP system. Mostly, this command is used (by <sid>adm user) while restarting an SAP system. So, you stop the system using stopsap, run the cleanipc command to clear the... Read More »

Red Hat® Ansible® Automation Platform is a foundation for building and operating automation across an organization. It is a free, open-source application with some commercial options based on Python and YAML. It works agent-less, so there is no... Read More »

Devices commands: List all devices on a system #lsdev List all disk devices on a system (See next item for a list of classes) #lsdev -Cc disk List all customized (existing) device classes (-P for complete list) #lsdev -C -r class Remove... Read More »

Last time I popped my detective hat above the cubicle wall was 6 months or so ago, in the last episode called I Carry A Spool or How The ABAP Detective Found His LP. That was a software lifetime ago. Since then, I’ve been in one dark and... Read More »

For SAP Installations on AIX, based on ABAP stack, the updates of AIX Technology Levels (TL) and Service Packs (SP) can be pursued without downtime, utilizing the “AIX Live Update” feature. This holds from versions AIX release 7.2 TL 3... Read More »

Digital Transformation and in particular Artificial Intelligence (AI) offer many opportunities to gain insights from your business data, grow your business or automate processes that were difficult to automate when using traditional methods. Many of... Read More »

SAP Kernel 7.53 was recently released as downward-compatible kernel instead of 7.40, 7.41, 7.42, 7.45, or 7.49 kernels – see SAP note 2556153 – Using kernel 7.53 instead of kernel 7.40, 7.41, 7.42, 7.45, or 7.49. Before applying the 7.53... Read More »

Greetings for the day!   I recently came across this question of ” Can we somehow change the location of /tmp/.sapstream<port-number> sockets to some other location that /tmp/.. location ? “ The answer to this question is... Read More »

The validation of the AIX “Live Update” feature with SAP has now been extended from small- and medium-sized to huge SAP systems. For SAP Installations on AIX, based on ABAP stack, the updates of AIX Technology Levels (TL) and Service... Read More »