Does anyone have any data on the amount of time required to apply service packs to ECC 6.0 when DB2 z/OS is the backend database?
We have done several tests in a sandbox system and the best case we have gotten so far using production LPAR weights is 6.5 hours to go from SP10 to SP11. Our z9 has 158 MSUs.
SAP has also done some benchmarking on a z900 lab machine with >400 MSUs and gotten similar runtimes.
Applying the same service pack to a sandbox on Windows x64 with SQLServer 2005 takes 2.5 hours.
We would like to understand the 2 to 3 times difference in runtimes and improve the DB2 z/OS case.
Brian