Here you can find resources and guides that help you install or upgrade your SAP on DB2 for LUW application environment. In addition, the documentation of how to upgrade (migrate) your DB2 database is also provided on this Web page. Please note that some documentation resides on the SAP Support Portal in the SAP Service Marketplace (SMP). An SMP login is required to access these guides.
Getting Started
SAP Netweaver 7.0 Implementation Documentation (SMP Login required)
This is the start page for all documentation regarding the installation of or the upgrade to a SAP Netweaver 7.0 (2004s) system.
Upgrading to Version 10.5 of IBM DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows
This guide explains how to upgrade from DB2 Version 9.7 or 10.1 to DB2 Version 10.5 in an SAP environment.
Upgrading to Version 10.1 of IBM DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows
This guide explains how to upgrade from DB2 Version 9.5 or 9.7 to DB2 Version 10.1 in an SAP environment.
Upgrading to Version 9.7 of IBM DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows
This guide explains how to upgrade from DB2 UDB Version 8, DB2 Version 9.1, or DB2 Version 9.5 to DB2 Version 9.7 in an SAP environment.
Migration to Version 9.5 of IBM DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows
This guide explains how to migrate from DB2 UDB Version 8 or DB2 Version 9 to DB2 Version 9.5.
Migration to Version 9 of IBM DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows
This guide explains how to migrate from DB2 UDB Version 8 to DB2 9. It covers all supported platforms.
Migration to Version 8 of the IBM DB2 Universal Database
This guide explains how to migrate from DB2 UDB Version 7 to DB2 UDB Version 8. It covers all supported platforms.
Installing an SAP System on IBM DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows
A short demo showing how you install an SAP system together with the IBM DB2 database using the SAPInst installer tool. The tight integration of SAP systems and IBM DB2 allows system administrators to install an SAP system with a few clicks without having to install the IBM DB2 database separately.
More on Installation and Upgrade
Performance Optimization with SAP on DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows - System Copy
This session addresses advanced SAP system copy techniques, considerations for DB2 database layout and tuning as well as unique DB2 capabilities. In addition, you acquire advanced knowledge about how you migrate your SAP system to IBM DB2. The session covers both general performance tuning options for export and import including the impact of Unicode on system copy performance as well as specific tuning options to migrate to DB2.
IBM DB2 and Transparent LDAP Authentication
This document describes how to use transparent LDAP with DB2. This is a new feature of DB2 9.7 and has been supported since DB2 9.5 FP4. Older database versions had a different and more complicated approach in using the benefits of LDAP together with DB2 which is described in more detail in the whitepaper "IBM DB2 authentication with OpenLDAP in system landscapes like SAP". With the new transparent LDAP feature of DB2, we do not need to configure any plug-ins anymore.
IBM DB2 authentication with OpenLDAP
This document describes how to integrate DB2 and OpenLDAP in different environments with SAP applications as an example for a general system landscape. It demonstrates the configuration of an LDAP server and the appropriate LDAP clients, together with some useful hints regarding the use of common LDAP tools, and how you can adapt your SAP systems to use the benefits of OpenLDAP.
Setting up IBM Database Encryption Expert in an SAP environment
IBM Database Encryption Expert for Linux, UNIX and Windows (DEE) is a comprehensive data protection solution which manages access control to files, directories and executables and provides strong encryption of the file contents. This document describes the required steps to set up the IBM Database Encryption Expert agent with an SAP host. A list of some tests that were performed on the newly created DEE agent and a summary of the tests results are also included in a case study.
Securing your SAP Database with AIX Encrypted File System (EFS)
This SDN article describes how to take advantage of the new AIX 6 Encrypted File System (EFS) feature in an SAP/DB2 environment. SAP customers running on IBM DB2 LUW can use this document as a step by step guide to enable this feature on their existing system. Some performance data is also provided based on test analysis done at our lab.
Deferred Table Creation in SAP Systems with IBM DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows
In an attempt to further reduce the disk space needed by a SAP system, the new feature deferred table creation was introduced as an installation option for the AS ABAP with SAP NetWeaver 7.0 SR3 on IBM DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows. This option replaces empty database tables - which already consume disk space - with read-only views. This paper explains deferred table creation in detail.
The New DB2 Client Setup in SAP Systems with DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows
To enable the communication between an SAP application server and the database management system a database client must be installed on every application server. Beginning with SAP NetWeaver 7.0 SR3 a new DB2 client and a new concept for maintaining DB2 client software was introduced. This concept, called 'New Client Connectivity', offers various improvements regarding the maintenance of the DB2 client software. In part 1 of this article the new and the old client concept is explained in detail. Part 2 outlines various procedures which can be used to check the DB2 client setup of a SAP system running on DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows.
DB2 High Availablilty with Tivoli System Automation
IBM provides a free two-node license of IBM Tivoli System Automation for Multiplatforms (SA MP). This guide describes the installation of SA MP for SAP systems.
Platform Availability Matrix (PAM) (SMP Login required)
See this detailed version of the PAM to understand which platforms are supported by IBM DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows with your specific SAP Release.