HANA and Unicode requirement.

[Former Member]

I am not yet an expert in HANA so on reading documentation.

I have not found any reference to Unicode requirement in this forum..

Even if in my company we are up to date on Release level ECC 6 (for some of our SAP landscapes) they have been upgraded overtime. For some of them we have never done a Unicode database conversion.

I have seen a document on the web (link) where it says :

SAP HANA can work with SAP R/3® starting from release 4.7.

This is because UNICODE, which is required by Sybase Replication Server, became available with release 4.7.

Does it mean that a UNICODE conversion is MANDATORY if we want to plug-in HANA on an existing SAP system ?

Or is it the standard issue to lose some characters ?

[nils_buerckel]

Hi,

The information can be found in SAP note 1513496:

Excerpt:

When using Sybase Replication Server to replicate operational data, the

source data needs to be in Unicode.

Best regards,

Nils Buerckel

[Vitaliy-R]

What we know so far (and are waiting for detailed documentation as well) is:

1/ If you want to connect SAP Business Suite application (like ERP) to SAP HANA database using replication based on Sybase Replication Server - Business Suite application has to be Unicode

2/ If you want to connect SAP Business Suite application (like ERP) to SAP HANA database using replication based on triggers (SLT tool) - there is no requirement for the source system to be Unicode

3/ If you want to do DB migration of your BW in the future from its current RDBMS to HANA database - BW has to be Unicode.

Cheers,

-Vitaliy

[Former Member]

Thanks for this quick feedback ... let's wait more detailed document from SAP

As HANA is now GA we should be able to find soon "SAP Stamped" type of information.

[lbreddemann]

Hello Patrick,

since the SLT replication is the one replication that comes with the GA version of HANA, you can safely stick to part 2 of Vitalys reply.

regards,

Lars