CU & UC (4.6c to ECC 6.0) - Export and Uninstall

[Former Member]

Dear All,

During the Techincal Upgrade we did the following:

For Export:

51033208 BS2005 SR2 Installation Master AIX 64bit

However, SAPInst crashed immediately after execution. Result :Thus SAPInst GUI did not get displayed

We then downloaded 51033511_1 BS2005 SR3 Installation Master AIX 64bit

There was not much difference between SR2 and SR3 except SAPInst patch level in SR3 is higher and latest than in SR2.

Then we executed SAPInst of SR3. SAPInst GUI displayed correctly this time. However , SAPInst terminated with error saying that "db type has to be != ind".

SAP advised us to set the environment variable dbms_type=ORA in root.

After setting the environment variable dbms_type=ORA on root, restarted SAPInst and after about 30 minutes, SAPInst terminated and error message was "R3load has to be oracle database only". Then we set the environment variable of ORACLE_HOME; ORACLE_SID, SAPSYSTEMNAME in root.

Export database and Uninstall database has been completed.

For Import of database:

SAPinst of SR3 was getting hanged. Mail from SAP advised us to set unlimited for root, d11adm for the parameter data,stack, soft core, memory. It was set to unlimited. Also umask for root, d11adm and orad11 set to 022.

Still sapinst was getting hanged but this time in another phases.

Then we executed SAPInst of SR2 and was crashed immediately without displaying SAPinst GUI.

Again mail from SAP advised us to use the latest patch of JRE i.e SR10 instead of SR9.

Then deleted subfolders of /usr/sap and /sapmnt as per mail from SAP support.

Executed SAPInst of SR3 and it got hanged/stuck up.

Then we executed SAPInst of SR2 and it started working continously and we completed Import Successfully.

Question:

As we have used various versions of AIX e.g. SR2 and SR3 for Import and Export respectively, will it anyway impact or create inconsistencies in the Upgrade or Unicode Conversion activity?

Thanks,

Shalin Shah

[markus_doehr2 · Accepted solution]

As we have used various versions of AIX e.g. SR2 and SR3 for Import and Export respectively, will it anyway impact or create inconsistencies in the Upgrade or Unicode Conversion activity?

No.

It "just" has a different software levels of the tools itself using a different CD/DVD set for installing. If you use it for export/import it doesn´t make a difference because it uses the tools (R3load et al) that are present in your instance executable directory.

Markus

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Makus,

Thanks a lot for your valuable and prompt reply. I am obliged.

Do you have any such OSS Note or Document to support our view. Because this is required for us to put forward to our client.

Thanks,

Shalin Shah

[markus_doehr2 · Accepted solution]

No - there's no such document. The tools to import/export are located elsewhere, sapinst is "just" the frontend for those.

Markus

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Markus,

I am also facing same error while creating a system copy (export). Its a 4.7 upgrade to ECC6 ( non-unicode). OS is Solaris 10.

I also set environment following env variable as root but still same error.

LD_LIBRARY_PATH

ORACLE_HOME

ORACLE_SID

SAPSYSTEMNAME

dbms_type=ORA

Please help!

Thanks

Rajesh

Error is:

INFO 2008-06-21 01:01:21.779 [sixxcstepexecute.cpp:781]

Execute step fillContext of component |NW_Export|ind|ind|ind|ind|0|0|NW_GetSidFromProfiles|ind|ind|ind|ind|1|0|NW_getDBInfo|ind|ind|ind|ind|4|0

ERROR 2008-06-21 01:01:21.984 [iaxxinscbk.cpp:260]

CJS-00030 Assertion failed: in component: NW_getDBInfo step:fillContext at this point the dbtype has to be != ind

ERROR 2008-06-21 01:01:22.004

CJSlibModule::writeError_impl()

MUT-03025 Caught ESAPinstException in Modulecall: in component: NW_getDBInfo

step:fillContext at this point the dbtype has to be != ind.

ERROR 2008-06-21 01:01:22.211 [sixxcstepexecute.cpp:951]

FCO-00011 The step fillContext with step key |NW_Export|ind|ind|ind|ind|0|0|NW_GetSidFromProfiles|ind|ind|ind|ind|1|0|NW_getDBInfo|ind|ind|ind|ind|4|0|fillContext was executed with status ERROR ( Last error reported by the step :Caught ESAPinstException in Modulecall: in component: NW_getDBInfo step:fillContext at this point the dbtype has to be != ind.).

INFO 2008-06-21 01:02:13.110 [sixxcstepexecute.cpp:1004]

An error occured and the user decide to stop.\n Current tep "|NW_Export|ind|ind|ind|ind|0|0|NW_GetSidFromProfiles|ind|ind|ind|ind|1|0|NW_getDBInfo|ind|ind|ind|ind|4|0|fillContext".

[markus_doehr2 · Accepted solution]

totally wrong forum (this is for DB2 on z/OS) - I´ll reply anyway...

Where did you set dbms_type?

Markus

[thomas_vogt · Accepted solution]

Moved thread to ORA forum.

Nevertheless you should open a problem ticket.

Regards,

Thomas