Middleware Performance Issues Vs SAP PI

[Former Member]

Hello All,

I am comparing the an existing middleware with SAP PI as a part of a due deligence study with one of our clients

Here are few major issues that the client reports in his environment.

How can SAP PI be an answer for the questions mentioned below

1. Code deployments require a full restart of the entire environment which is a long difficult task due to the number of hosts and lack of an integrated management interface.

2.Memory leaks necessitate frequent restart of middleware JVMs.

3.Existing Middleware is obsolete and unsupported and is based on obsolete unsupported software.

4. Poor application design requires code deployment to change simple data configurations resulting in much too frequent code deployments.

5. Code deployments require a full restart of the entire environment which is a long difficult task due to the number of hosts and lack of an integrated management interface.

Thanks & Regards

Sita K

[abhay_rajhans2 · Accepted solution]

Hi Sita,

Answers to some of your questions.

+1. Code deployments require a full restart of the entire environment which is a long difficult task due to the number of hosts and lack of an integrated management interface.+

When you do any change in SAP PI code, you do not need to restart complete environment. Just files or transport requests need to be deployed.

2.Memory leaks necessitate frequent restart of middleware JVMs.

As per experience with PI till date do not need to restart PI frequently

3.Existing Middleware is obsolete and unsupported and is based on obsolete unsupported software.

SAP Support PI for longer period and if you switch to PI 7.3 it will be supported more longer.You can check for support period of version on Service.sap

4. Poor application design requires code deployment to change simple data configurations resulting in much too frequent code deployments.

This will depend on your design and PI is flexible.

5. Code deployments require a full restart of the entire environment which is a long difficult task due to the number of hosts and lack of an integrated management interface.

same answer as given to Point no 1.

And as suggested by other you can study features of PI 7.3 and suggest them to use it.

[Former Member]

As said by Henrique, you better go with SAP PI 7.3 which is going to be released soon. existing issues are overcome in SAP PI 7.3. Check the below link to know the new features & advantages:

http://weblogs.sdn.sap.com/cs/blank/view/wlg/21560

Thanks,

[henrique_pinto]

Your customer might want to evaluate SAP PI 7.3.

It addresses several performance issues from previous versions, and has a new & optimized memory handling, better garbage collector, OOM exception handling, restart recovery activities etc.

BR,

Henrique.