IBM Db2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows

Introduction When you run an SAP Business Warehouse system on IBM Db2 and IBM Db2 BLU Acceleration, it might happen that the column-organized tables in the SAP BW system get fragmented. With Db2 11.5.4, you get new tools for analyzing the level of... Read More »

Introduction With IBM Db2 11.5.6, the Db2 CLI client provides a new “query block prefetch” feature (not to be confused with the Db2 prefetching features on the database server side). In this blog I would like to explain how SAP ABAP stack... Read More »

Introduction This blog provides the guidance for setting up Highly Available (HA) SAP Netweaver 7.5 on IBM DB2 11.5 database in Windows environment. There are 2 ways to achieve HA setup of DB2 DB. Shared Disk based Setup (covered in this blog) HADR... Read More »

Do you know the DBA Cockpit? It’s SAP’s tool for monitoring SAP systems on IBM Db2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows. It comes to you for free as part of every ABAP-based SAP system. If you already know it, read on, and you’ll learn more about some... Read More »

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 »

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 »

もう、Support Assistant を試しましたか？ Support Assistant... Read More »

Have you tried Support Assistant? The Support Assistant is an optimized incident creation tool which accelerates the process of incident creation by asking product specific questions to narrow down to the problem area, meanwhile recommending... Read More »

During customer visits and interesting talks at conferences I noticed how the topic of security is moving more and more into focus driven by regulations like GDPR, SoX, HIPPA, MaRSIK or KRITIS, just to mention some. Beside those, company-internal... Read More »

Core Data Services (CDS) is often mentioned in the context of SAP HANA only. But did you know that SAP provides ABAP Core Data Services that you can run on any database used in an SAP environment? Let’s first recap what CDS is before we dive right... Read More »