SAP Installation Number

[Former Member]

Hey all,

My question for you is twofold; Is the SAP Installation number a unique number for each installation of SAP? Would this differ between a dev and production system for the same client?

Secondly, is there any function module (remote enabled would be nice) to retrieve the installation number? If not, is there any way of retrieving this in ABAP?

Thanks in advance,

Tim.

[suresh_datti]

Yes.. the installation number is unique & same for DEV/QA/Prod ie across the landscape.

~Suresh

[Former Member]

Thanks for the quick answer Suresh. So what you are saying is that the installation number could be the same for DEV/QA/Prod?

Is there anything that can uniquely identify the individual system or the type of the system?

[suresh_datti]

Yes.. the installation number will be the sam efor DEV,QA & Prod. You can identify using the Client & Server name.

~Suresh

[ferry_lianto]

Hi,

Is the SAP Installation number a unique number for each installation of SAP? Would this differ between a dev and production system for the same client?

It would be same number for DEV, QA adn PROD even there are in different client(s). But you will have different number if you have other than SAP R/3 i.e SAP CRM, SAP BW, SAP APO and so on.

Secondly, is there any function module (remote enabled would be nice) to retrieve the installation number? If not, is there any way of retrieving this in ABAP?

I don't think there is RFC FM available for this. But you can create custom RFC-enabled function and include FM SLIC_GET_LICENCE_NUMBER.

Regards,

Ferry Lianto

[Former Member]

Hey Ferry,

Thanks for the response. That definitely helped. Is there any other value that will uniquely identify each system that uses the same installation number?

[suresh_datti]

In your ABAP program, you can also identify what system you are on via the system fields SY-HOST & SY-SYSID that are populated at runtime.

~Suresh

[ferry_lianto]

Hi Tim,

Perhaps you may want to check FM SLIC_READ_LICENSES.

There are other fields available which have the same installation number.

Regards,

Ferry Lianto

[sreeramkumar_madisetty]

Hi

Installation number is Unique across the Landscape.

Regards,

Sreeram