Customers still using IBM i 7.2 for SAP applications may have noticed that it has transitioned to extended support as of 1 May 2021. This is a good time to consider moving to a later IBM i release to avoid extra maintenance fees. As you do so, you m...
Over the last few years, the SAP and IBM development teams have partnered to share technical information at an event called the SAP on IBM i Summit. This year, the team has switched to a webcast format because of the pandemic. While it is disappoint...
If you have visited the IBM developerWorks site for SAP on IBM i recently, you likely noticed a banner at the top of the page saying that "The developerWorks Connections platform will be sunset on December 31, 2019. On January 1, 2020, this wiki will...
Do you have SAP Business Suite systems that were installed as many as five, fifteen or twenty-five years ago? Have you inherited responsibility for SAP systems that may have been installed that long ago? As SAP NetWeaver and IBM i release levels have...
Members of the extended SAP on i technical team from SAP and IBM often participate in several SAP on i user groups around the world. We know there are many more SAP on i clients out there that would appreciate a live discussion with IBM and SAP and o...
Hi Michael, I agree that it's probably easier for an SAP Basis person to learn some things about IBM i than the other way around. Instance profiles, environment variables specific to SAP, probably basis. Things like failed drives and firmware update...
Hi Claudia, Just to check, when you did the ADDENVVAR, did you set it for LEVEL(*SYS)? The default is *JOB so you would see it in qp2term in that same job, but you might need *SYS to make sure any job SAP's SWPM might start would have that envvar set...
First, you should know that you can take that SAP environment running on IBM i directly to one of several cloud platforms without having to do a heterogeneous system copy first. Because of IBM i subsystems and Db2 for IBM i, it is quite flexible and...
Looking at that message, the resolution is stated as"Ensure the security server is defined in either the LDAP directory or the Kerberos configuration file and then retry the request."Have you done that?
When using SVC, all the LUNs look the same from the IBM i OS perspective. However, if EasyTier is doing what it is supposed to do, your IBM i workload should see a benefit.EasyTier is managing data from the storage point of view - ideally putting the...
