Upgrade from BW 3.5 to BI 7.0 (Kernel 640 to 700)

[Former Member]

Hello experts,

We are carrying out an upgrade of our BW QA Server, our OS is HP-UX 11.23, and we recently upgraded our oracle database from 9.2.0.7 tu 10.2.0.2

As part of the pre-prepare phase of the upgrade, one of the requirements was to use the new oracle instant client for 10.2.0.2. We arrange to get this db client working but afterwards our sap system was unable to load the dbsl libraries and R3trans failed to connect to the DB. Because of this we found necesary to upgrade the SAP Kernel from 640 to 700. We carried out this step and both sap and oracle are starting without problems and R3trans succeds to connect, but when we try to access thru SAP GUI we get this terrible message:

"Error when initializing the work area SYST."

Any of you have encountered this situacion before?

Any tips or pointers that could help us move on from this error?

We believe our environment variables are ok, I mean everything worked with kernel 640.

Thanks for your help, I will award points to helpful solutions.

[former_member204746 · Accepted solution]

you cannot use kernel 7.00 on BW 3.5. that's a big no-no.

if you are still on BW 3.5, go back with kernel 6.40