SAP DB2 BLU Deployment Prerequisite

1851853 - DB6: Using DB2 10.5 with SAP Applications

1555903 - DB6: Supported DB2 Database Features
1819734 - DB6: Use of BLU Acceleration
1825340 - DB6: Use of BLU Acceleration with NetWeaver BW
1889656 - DB6: Mandatory SAP NW BW corrections for BLU Acceleration
1260217 - DB6: Software components contained in DB2 license from SAP
1889656 - Use program SAP_CDE_CONVERSION_DB6-Attached note - see
code extension described in
1513862 -DB6CONV Tool - Download the latest version of DB6CONV
1964464 - DB6: Corrections to report SAP_CDE_CONVERSION_DB6
1837312 - DB6: Upgrade to Version 10.5 of DB2 LUW
1051576 - Conversion of Single Code Page Systems to Unicode
260217 - DB6: Software Components Contained in DB2 License from SAP
1834310 - DB6: Use of DB2 BLU Acceleration with DB2 near-line storage

Important points to be check:

BLU related ABAP code extensions: these are delivered with SAP BW
Support Packages (customers are required to apply those SPs)

Unicode: System must be a Unicode System

Table space type: must be of type reclaimable storage and automatic
storage

Tables can be converted to BLU - per SAP InfoCube (report
SAP_CDE_CONVERSION_DB6 & DB6CONV)

Monitoring DB2 10.5 using DBA Cockpit (customers are required to apply
those BASIS SPs)
SAP prerequisites:

You can find information about required service packs, technology levels, and
other detailed OS information for DB2 10.5 in the IBM Information Center at:
http://www.ibm.com/software/data/db2/udb/sysreqs.html
The use of DB2 10.5 is supported for applications based on SAP NetWeaver 7.0
and higher. Applications based on lower releases of SAP NetWeaver are not
supported with DB2 10.5.
To upgrade an existing system from DB2 Version 9.7 or DB2 Version 10.1 to
DB2 10.5, follow the instructions in the database upgrade guide "Upgrading to
Version 10.5 of IBM DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows", which is available on
SAP Service Marketplace at: http://service.sap.com/instguides --> Database
Upgrades --> DB2 UDB

Technical prerequisites DB2:

(1) DPF
We need a non-partitioned database

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The following system and database configurations do not support column-

organized tables in the DB2 Version 10.5 release.
Partitioned databases

This affects the way on how the test system can be cloned from a source DB2
based system:
If the source database is DB2 without DPF, a system copy by means of
backup/restore will be an option
If the source database is DB2 with DPF, an SAP homogeneous system copy
based on R3load is suggested

(2) Unicode
We need a Unicode codepage database

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The following system and database configurations do not support column-

organized tables in the DB2 Version 10.5 release.
Databases whose code set and collation are not UNICODE and IDENTITY or
IDENTITY_16BIT

(3) Reclaimable Storage Tablespace

We need tablespace of type reclaimable storage

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The following system and database configurations do not support column-

organized tables in the DB2 Version 10.5 release.
Table spaces that are not enabled for reclaimable storage

Use the following statements to check whether your tablespaces are enabled for
reclaimable storage:

SELECT tbsp_name FROM TABLE (MON_GET_TABLESPACE('',-2)) AS T

WHERE reclaimable_space_enabled = 1
(The result set shows tablespaces which are enabled)

SELECT tbsp_name FROM TABLE (MON_GET_TABLESPACE('',-2)) AS T

WHERE reclaimable_space_enabled = 0
(The result set shows tablespaces which are NOT enabled)

Unfortunately, one can not convert non-enabled tablespaces inplace. The have
to be re-created.In SAP environments, typically this is done via DB6CONV

(4) Automatic Storage

We need a database which uses Automatic Storage

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The following system and database configurations do not support column-

organized tables in the DB2 Version 10.5 release.
Databases that are created without automatic storage enabled

Use the following command to check this status:

db2pd -db <DBSID> -storagepaths

(5) Monitoring DB2 10.5 using DBA Cockpit

To monitor a DB2 10.5 database using the DBA Cockpit, the following minimum
SAP Basis release levels are required:

SAP NetWeaver 7.00 SP27

SAP NetWeaver 7.01 SP12
SAP NetWeaver 7.02 SP12
SAP NetWeaver 7.10 SP15
SAP NetWeaver 7.11 SP10
SAP NetWeaver 7.30 SP08
SAP NetWeaver 7.31 SP05
SAP NetWeaver 7.40 SP02

In addition, you must implement SAP Note 1835822.

Above SPs are mandatory for the DBA Cockpit to work fully functional. This list
refer to Basis support packages, not to BW ones.There might be dependences
with other SPs in the one or other case, but generally, it is the Basis SPs only ...