SAP on iSeries Vs. SAP on Unix

[Former Member]

My company's legacy systems have been running on the iSeries for decades. Now the company is planning to implement SAP ECC 6.0. Although we are a big fan of the iSeries platform for its reliability, we want to make sure running SAP on iSeries is a good idea. In general, customers running SAP on iSeries are a minority compared to the number of shops running SAP on Unix/Oracle.

What are your thoughts on SAP on iSeries? Also, have you faced problems in terms of performance or system maintenance on the iSeries?

Thanks for your input.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Alagu,

my 5 cents to this question are:

Please, choose a platform, where you do have skills in !

This is needed for the DB and the OS ...

You can run SAP stable on each platform

But:

You need first knowledged consultants, that set it up for you and then take partticipation in order to get parts of their knowledge.

I do have customers with 2500+ Users running on iSeries and running really stable and fast - but if you do not maintain the system properly, this will not work like this ...

Regards

Volker Gueldenpfennig, consolut international ag

http://www.consolut.net - http://www.4soi.de - http://www.easymarketplace.de

[Former Member]

Hi Alagu,

Just to share, we did a two step migration of our SAP 4.6B, Unix box to 4.7, i5 last Nov.2007 and until now we don't have any major problems. As for experience, I used to handle unix before and now i'm handling iSeries and our SAP is so stable. I also agree with them that you have to look into consideration the skill sets of the DBA since you will be shifting to another database.

John

[Ganimede-Dignan]

Hi,

>My company's legacy systems have been running on the iSeries for decades. Now the company is planning >to implement SAP ECC 6.0. Although we are a big fan of the iSeries platform for its reliability, we want to >make sure running SAP on iSeries is a good idea. In general, customers running SAP on iSeries are a >minority compared to the number of shops running SAP on Unix/Oracle.

Advice: select and consider platform+rdbms where you have a valid knowledge. I live in a company, one of early SAP custumer on AS/400 from R/3 3.0E (V3R6 OS/400) release to R/3 4.6C release. The number of problem is the same of a Solaris/Oracle landscape than I manage now.

Management and TCO on iSeries is less than Unix or Windows. RDBMS is very simple to manage then Oracle & CO. in my personal opinion.

>What are your thoughts on SAP on iSeries? Also, have you faced problems in terms of performance or >system maintenance on the iSeries?

If the system is correctly installed end tuned SAP works fine on iSeries... the same for alla other platform.

Regards.

Ganimede Dignan.