SAP locales for RHEL6

[Former Member]

Dear all,

I need to migrate the non-Unicode SAP ECC 6.0 (NW 7.0 SR2) ABAP only for Oracle 11.2.0.3 from HP-UX 11.31 to RedHat 6.

My question is regarding the RHEL license , RHEL for SAP Application.

Do you have experiance with this?

I read the problem with locales on Linux Note 187864 - Linux: Locale Support on Linux and Incorrect sorting experienced in non-Unicode SAP environments with SAP on RHEL. This means that I really need the license RHEL for SAP Application?

Must I use this original license Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP applications, there is production and nonProduction versions?

Or I can use the RedHat Enterprise Linux Advance Platform or any other kind RHEL license and there will be no problems with locales ...

Thank you in advance.

BR,

Ruzica

[former_member214698 · Accepted solution]

Hi Ruzica,

I work for Red Hat on the SAP relationship. To your question, short answer is that you will need "Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP Business Applications" Subscription (In short RHEL for SAP) instead of a regular RHEL6. Please check the RHN KnowledgeBase article for details on RHEL for SAP, including important info. on support and locales. https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/node/34169

Please contact your local Red Hat sales for subscriptions to RHEL for SAP. There is no additional cost. And to switch, there is no need to rebuild your OS. What you will need to do is to subscribe your server to the "RHEL for SAP" child channel and start receiving rpms including locales.

More information on Red Hat products and solutions can be found on "SAP on Red Hat" SCN page: http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-37811

Should you have further question please feel free to contact sap@redhat.com

Regards,

Sherry

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Sherry,

Thank you very much.

We'll migrate the RHEL license with RHEL for SAP.

Best regards,

Ruzica

[former_member192421]

Hi Ruzica,

Please check these SAP notes.

Note 187864 and Note 171356

Regards,

Rajkumar

[former_member188883]

Hi Ruzica,

Refer PAM list for supported Linux Versions for SAP https://service.sap.com/sap/support/pam?hash=s%3DERP%25206.0%26o%3Dmost_viewed%257Cdesc%26st%3Dl%26r...

You may select one of these versions..If these OS versions are licensed from the vendor ( not SAP), then you need to pay the license cost.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Deepak Kori

[former_member182307]

Hello Ruzica,

As far as I understand it, depending on your RHEL version , you need access to the corresponding Red Hat Network channel to download the SAP Locales:

For RHEL6 which is the release you'll be using, you need to download the saplocales from the channel "RHEL for SAP" which requires a valid subscription to "RHEL for SAP Business Applications".

Seems like RedHat Enterprise Linux Advance Platform was the one used for RHEL5.

Best regards,

Steve.

[Former Member]

Hi,

We have license for RedHat EL6 and already installled the new environment for migration. But it really seams that we should buy new license for "RHEL for SAP Business Applications" in order to have the appropriate saplocales.

Thank you.

BR,

Ruzica

[former_member182307]

Hello,

Yes, you' re right it seems like this is some kind of "extra license".

http://www.redhat.com/products/enterprise-linux/for-sap/

Best regards,

Steve.