This IBM Redbook describes availability procedures for the database of an SAP R/3 4.6B installation that uses DB2 UDB for OS/390 as the SAP R/3 database server. The redbook is one of a series that focuses on SAP R/3 when DB2 UDB for OS/390 is used as a database server.This redbook reflects the considerable development … Read more
By Santosh Karkhanis SAP will change everything. That’s the gospel according to everyone who knows anything about this integrated software system. What exactly is the beast? And why does the thought of it throw people into a dither?Ask an information-technology specialist, and you’ll get something like: “SAP is a completely integrated, enterprisewide information system that … Read more
SAP stands for System Applications and Products. It is the name of both the online financial and administrative software and the company that developed it. SAP is made up of individual modules that perform various organizational system tasks. MIT has customized and implemented the SAP modules that best suit its organizational needs.This self-study is designed … Read more
The Multiple Components in One Database (MCOD) feature of SAP enables a reduction in the number of DB2 systems that need to be installed and maintained. This significantly simplifies overall database administration and is considered one of the major DB2 competitive advantages.This IBM Redbook will help systems administrators, database administrators, managers, and operation staff to … Read more
This IBM Redbook focuses on the implementation of SAP application servers on Linux for zSeries. It applies to IBM z/OS V1R2 (5694-A01), IBM z/VM V4.2 (5739-A04), SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 7 for IBM zSeries (64-bit), IBM DB2 UDB for z/OS V7.1 (5675-DB2), and SAP R/3 4.6C SR2.The book provides overviews of SAP and Linux and … Read more
This IBM Redbook explains the SAP high availability with System Automation solution. This solution provides the means for fully automating the management of all SAP components and related products running on OS/390, z/OS, AIX, Windows, or Linux. The automation software monitors all resources and controls the restart and/or takeover of failing components, thereby ensuring near … Read more
This IBM Redbook shows the different techniques customers can use to clone their DB2 system. Although the scenarios in the book use an SAP workload, the DB2 cloning techniques we describe are not specific to SAP. Those techniques can apply to any DB2 system and the applications running on that DB2. The book describes hands-on … Read more
This IBM Redbook addresses the challenges posed by monitoring high availability, scalability, and performance in an SAP sysplex data sharing environment. It introduces the motivations for utilizing a design based on DB2 data sharing. It includes the principal SAP-DB2 data sharing architecture options and trade-offs used in the industry today and issues that play a … Read more
SAP ModulesSAP stands for Systems Applications and Products. It is the name of both an online financial and administrative software and the company that developed it. SAP is made up of individual, integrated software modules that perform various organizational system tasks. MIT has customized and implemented the SAP modules that best suit its organizational needs.Environments … Read more
This redbook explores the SAP Business Information Warehouse (BW) on the AS/400 system. It takes a close look at the tasks and functions that are specific for the AS/400 environment, rather than the BW generic task. This redbook is designed to assist AS/400 technical specialists and SAP Basis consultants in implementing this technology. As you … Read more