SAP Basis Tech Supports

Symptom
You have installed an SAP kernel 6.40 for IBM eServer iSeries and you want to use double-byte languages, such as Chinese, Japanese or Korean, in your SAP system.
However, the required double-byte languages are not available because the necessary locales are missing.
Other terms
IBM eServer iSeries, OS/400, AS/400, locales, PASE
Reason and Prerequisites
The SAP kernel 6.40 for IBM [...]

Symptom
You require information about maintaining a master data management (MDM) system in the operating system.
Other terms
i5OS, system i, AS/400, OS400, iSeries
Reason and Prerequisites
Information requirements
Solution
1. Required IBM PTFs
Before you can start operating an MDM server, the following PTFs must be active on your IBM i server:
–> For Version IBM i6.1:
SI33372, SI33241, SI32914, SI34028, SI33157, SI34105, SI33949, [...]

Symptom
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SAP NetWeaver 7.0 Installation on Windows: IBM DB2 for i5/OS
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Other terms
install, SAPinst, AS/400, OS/400, iSeries, System i, NT,AMD64
Reason and Prerequisites
This SAP Note contains some important installation information which is also given in the guide “SAP NetWeaver 7.0 SR3 on Windows: IBM DB2 for i5/OS. It also contains additional information that came [...]

Symptom
When you use APYSIDKRN to import a package, possible SAPCAR messages are not displayed in the log; if an SAR package is incorrect, the reason for this is not displayed in the log.
Other terms
AS/400, OS400, system i, i5/OS, iSeries
Reason and Prerequisites
The SAPCAR log is generated in a separate job; as a result, its spool [...]

Symptom
You want to determine the SAP patch level of an ILE program from your ILE kernel or library.
Other terms
AS/400, OS400, system i, iSeries, i5OS, IBM i
Reason and Prerequisites
A note specifies that a certain problem is solved as of patch level of an ILE program. You want to know whether or not you already [...]

Symptom
After you implement a current tool patch (for example, R3trans or TP), you can no longer start the affected programs. You can also no longer access the version information (for example, calling R3TRANS PARMLIST(’-v’)). The following are examples of error messages that may occur in the job log
No runtime definition found for [...]

Symptom
You want to reduce the volume of the data to be journaled.
Other terms
AS/400, OS/400, i5/OS, iSeries
Reason and Prerequisites
As of OS/400 V5R1M0, you can influence the size of the data that is recorded in the journal QSQJRN.
1. On the one hand, you can use the new parameter MINENTDTA(*FILE) to record only the changed parts of [...]

Symptom
This note describes the option to access data from the ABAP stack of an SAP system on i5/OS even if this data is not stored on the SAP database server, but is stored in a remote IBM DB2 for i5/OS database.
Other terms
CONNECT, DBCON, iSeries, AS400, DB4, DB2/400, DB400, system i, AS/400, OS/400
Solution
Terms
Release: In [...]

Symptom
None
Other terms
iSeries, AS/400, OS400, system i, I5OS, watchdog
Reason and Prerequisites
Benchmarks in older OS400 releases showed that OS semaphores consume a lot of time on AS/400 hardware. For this reason, semaphore calls for the SAP kernel were redirected by the software to MUTEX calls of addresses in a shared memory segment. These were [...]

Symptom
When analyzing CPU utilization on an iSeries application server through transaction ST06 or OS06 (Operating system monitor), you may notice the following oddities:
1. SAPOSCOL and transaction ST06 only report CPU usage for the first CPU in the CPU Snapshot analysis, even though multiple CPU’s are being used. Usage for all other CPU’s is [...]