SAP Notes for installing ERP 6.0 EHP4 on NW 7.01 on IBM i 7.1

[Former Member]

Hello members

The last time I install SAP on IBM i was about 3 years ago with ECC 6 on NW 7.00 on IBM i V5R4. Now, I have to install ERP 6.0 EHP4 on NW 7.01 on IBM i 7.1 for my new customer (only the ABAP ERP components - not CRM, SCM, SRM or Java stack). I try to first gather all important SAP notes that would be useful for me in doing the installation. By far, I identify note 1234455 (NetWeaver 7.0 EHP1/Business Suite 7 - IBM i) and 1432783 (Known Issued with IBM i 7.1). Is there any other notes I should be aware of for a successful installation?

I also need to identify the list of installation DVD that I need for this installation but, so far, I can identify DVD 51038620 (Install Master) and 51036902 (Install Export). I know I need more DVD than these two but I could not find any SAP notes that list all the DVD number I need.

Any suggestion would be very much appreciated?

Thanks.

[Former Member]

Hi Satid,

We just completed the IBM i OS upgrade to 7.1 and found some additional notes to consider. In fact here is an extract of note 1257635.

Note: As of IBM i release 7.1 (v7r1m0), XDN is the only supported database driver (SAP Note 1431956). If XDN is not explicitly installed on IBM i 7.1 machines, an XDN Listener will run as though XDN were installed with the option *STRRMTDB. If you are using Windows application servers prior to Windows 2008 R2 or IBM i application servers prior to IBM i 7.1 database server, you will need to configure XDN manually as described in the next section.

It could be that your level of SAP is already using the newer database driver but we were not. (SAP ERP 6.0) I was surprised that the note 1432783 did not mention this new driver.

Regards,

Pat

[Former Member]

Hello Satid,

nice to hear from you )

As you already pointed out, it is always useful, to read and apply the notes ...

What is special here ?

- Installation runs similar to your ecc6 stuff from 3 years ago - we typically replace the kernel of the kernel CD with a new patch level on the CD already.

- the big point is, that the system does NOT have EHP4 installed when you are done with SAPinst ;-(

you do have NW 7.01 and ERP6.00 => you have to start SAPEHPI immediately after that for all the components, that you require on EHP4. This is 95% of an complete upgrade => the installation is 2 . 3 times the effort of what wou would expect ...

If you do have questions, don't hesitate and contact us.

Regards

Volker Gueldenpfennig, consolut international ag

http://www.consolut.com http://www.4soi.de http://www.easymarketplace.de

[Former Member]

Volker

As always, thank for your expert advise.

Taking the clue from your mentioning of SAPEHPI, I now can indentify 3 more SAP notes for DB2 for i. I'm now loading the Installation Guide of ERP 6.0 EHP4 ABAP for DB2 for i to read. May need your advise againg if I find some tough nuts to crack.

Thanks.

[Former Member]

Hello Satid,

as you are from IBM, you could even talk to the IBM ISICC and ask for a "FastStart Export" for your needs. That would be a full export with EHP4 already in. Then it is an installation "only" ... similar to the stuff youo did 3 years ago - just with SAPinst ...

Regards

Volker Gueldenpfennig, consolut international ag

http://www.consolut.com http://www.4soi.de http://www.easymarketplace.de

Edited by: Volker Gueldenpfennig on Feb 23, 2011 11:37 PM

[Former Member]

Volker

Thank for another useful piece of information.