Access external database Adabas D

[MichiFr]

Hi,

I don't know where to ask this question, so I will give it a try here.

We are currenlty using a SAP ECC 6.0 (Kernel 7.01) and would like to access an Adabas D (version 10.05.04) via native SQL statements located on a different Windows server.

I'm interested if this is possible at all and if yes, how would I start to get this running? I've used transaction DB59 to add an entry into table DBCON, however any try to get a connection fails.

If reading SAP note 323151, it seems that I'm missing some DLL files to get an access to any secondary database, I didn't find any files so far, so any hint would be appreciated, too.

To sum up, what are the correct steps to connect to Adabas D?

cu,

Michael

[GrahamRobbo]

[This blog|http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/11543] [original link is broken] [original link is broken] [original link is broken]; might help.

Importantly you can only use this technique if the database you want to connect to is "a DBMS that is supported by the SAP ABAP kernel" and "the running SAP kernel must also support the non-SAP DBMS".

Cheers

Graham Robbo

[MichiFr]

Thanks Graham for your reply and the provided link which is really helpful.

The question is how to find out if the current ABAP and SAP kernel is capable of accessing this Adabas D database. And if not how to get the kernel to be compliant if possible.

The mentioned Adabas D database is currently used by a third-party application which accesses the DB with ODBC drivers directly. Hence I don't have any clue how the SAP kernels will get access to it. Our SAP admins don't have any experiences with this, too.

Michael

Edit: Sorry Graham, didn't read your document very carefully. It seems that the links will show the appropriate information I need. Anyway I will report back here if I encounter some problems in establishing the connection. Thanks again!

Edited by: Michael Fritz on Oct 12, 2010 9:44 AM

[GrahamRobbo]

Hi Michael,

check the Product Availability Matrix to see if your ABAP stack supports the database. http://service.sap.com/pam

Cheers

Graham Robbo