This blog contains experience gained over the years of implementing (and de-implementing) large scale IT applications/software.

Useful Links

On this page I am intending on placing links to SAP notes, help pages and guides that I use regularly or that are of significance.

Useful SAP Notes, Help, Guides & Wiki Pages

SAP General

SAP on Azure

  • 1928533 – SAP Applications on Azure: Supported Products and Azure VM types

SAP Installation

  • 2230669 – System Provisioning Using a Parameter Input File

SAP Kernel

SAP ASE

– Architecture & Design
  • 2087323 – SYB: Important solved problems for SAP Applications running on SAP ASE
  • 2162183 – Important KBAs and SAP Notes – SAP ASE for Business Suite
  • 2700326 – How to properly size the SAP ASE for BS
  • 2611826 – What is the supported page size for SAP ASE for Business Suite?
  • 2080168 – 16KB page size usage with Windows file system – SAP ASE
  • 1585981 – SYB: Ensuring Recoverability for SAP ASE
  • 1891560 – SYB: Disaster Recovery Setup with SAP Replication Server
  • 1650511 – SYB: High Availability Offerings with SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise
  • 1805750 – SYB: Usage of HugePages on Linux Systems with Sybase ASE
– Operations
– Patching & Maintenance
  • 2445789 – Targeted CR List for ASE 16.0 SP03
  • 2659546 – Targeted CR List for ASE 16.0 SP03 PL06
  • 2694360 – Targeted CR List for ASE 16.0 SP03 PL07
  • 2816551 – Targeted CR List for ASE 16.0 SP03 PL08
  • 1590719 – SYB: Updates for SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise (SAP ASE)
  • 2469889 – How to navigate SAP Software Downloads for latest patches – ASE
  • 2800495 – SYB: How to perform an SAP ASE rolling update with SAP Host Agent 7.21 PL43 and later
  • 1982469 – SYB: Updating SAP ASE with saphostctrl
  • 1602547 – SYB: Versions of the syb_update_db script
  • Performing a Rolling Upgrade on a DR Node System
    https://help.sap.com/viewer/38af74a09e48457ab699e83f6dfb051a/16.0.3.6/en-US/57c39954b2aa4a5ca6e1da46935ec9d7.html

SAP BW

– BW on ASE
  • 2518955 – Analysis for Office does not show the BW systems or crashes at the BW system selection
  • 2103636 – SYB: Adaptions for SAP ASE 16.0 SP01 PL01
  • 1616762 – SYB: Fix collection for table partitioning
  • 1606069 – SYB: Improvements for updating table statistics
  • 2189096 – SYB: Extended parallel query support
  • 2220667 – SYB: RSADMIN parameter to deactivate fact_table hint for ODSO queries

SAP Business Process Automation (BPA)

– Architecture & Design
– Operations
  • 2731219 – prevent processes from starting after maintenance window
  • 2246463 – Performance problems with JobHistory growth and job System_Aggregate_History failing
  • 2630537 – Activate/Deactivate login for SAP BPA users
– Patching & Maintenance
  • 2717127 – SAP Business Process Automation by Redwood, Version 9.1, Patch 3
– RedwoodScripting

SAP Fiori

– Architecture & Design
– Operations
– Patching & Maintenance
  • 2017117 – Resetting the gateway metadata cache following UI add-on upgrade
  • 2319491 – How to clean up the cache after applying changes that affect SAP Fiori apps
  • 2346367 – How to upgrade the SAPUI5 library in ABAP
  • 2217489 – Maintenance and Update Strategy for SAP UI (SAPUI5) in SAP Fiori Front-End Server
  • 2118663 – Install a patch for SAPUI5 runtime libraries

HANA

– Architecture & Design
– XSA
– HANA System Replication
– Operations
– Patching & Maintenance
– O/S Settings
  • 2205917 – SAP HANA DB: Recommended OS settings for SLES 12 / SLES for SAP Applications 12
  • 1275776 – Linux: Preparing SLES for SAP environments
  • 2235581 – SAP HANA: Supported Operating Systems
  • 1557506 – Linux paging improvements
  • 2382421 – Optimizing the Network Configuration on HANA- and OS-Level
  • 1984787 – SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 12: Installation notes
– Security
  • 2250144 – FAQ: SAP HANA Secure User Store
  • 2154997 – Migration of hdbuserstore entries to ABAP SSFS
  • 1735586 – Unable to grant privileges for _SYS_REPO.-objects via SAP HANA Studio authorization management
– System Copy
  • 1844468 – Homogeneous system copy on SAP HANA
  • 1969300 – DBACOCKPIT cannot connect to HANA Database after system copy
  • 2472478 – How to copy and move tenant databases between SAP HANA systems
  • 2512612 – Deletion of obsolete SAP HANA objects after a system copy
  • 1697865 – Homogeneous system copy: Change log of SAP HANA-opt. DSOs
  • 1809453 – SAP HANA DB: Recovery of a system copy fails
  • 2487572 – HANA System Replication – Manually Initializing the Secondary with Storage Copy From Primary
  • 1928043 – SAP HANA, homogeneous system copy of a declustered system
  • 2290203 – System Copy / Export stops because table/object does not exist
  • 2165547 – FAQ: SAP HANA Database Backup & Recovery in an SAP HANA System Replication Landscape
  • 888210 – NW 7.**: System copy (supplementary note)
  • 2380652 – Target system does not start after system copy
  • 2419312 – Error installing temporary licenses after system copy or refresh
  • 2300937 – Backup and restore for SAP HANA extended application services, advanced model

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