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ECC 6.0 and Netweaver 7.3 BI across different OS

Former Member
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Hello all,

We are currently upgrading to ECC 6.0 EHP 5 on AIX/Oracle 11g. Our Business Intelligence team would like to run Netweaver 7.3 BI along with BOBJ 4.0 and Data Services 4.0 on Windows Server 2008.

I was just wondering whether this was possible for integration, or whether we would encounter any sort of interoperability issues? Any help or notes on interoperability would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

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markus_doehr2
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> I was just wondering whether this was possible for integration, or whether we would encounter any sort of interoperability issues? Any help or notes on interoperability would be greatly appreciated.

Since standard interfaces (ODBC, JDBC, RFC etc.) are used to connect the systems there will be no interoperability issues. It's quite common to have various platforms.

Markus

Former Member
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Hi Markus,

Thanks very much for the quick reply on this!

former_member204746
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I see no issues.

SAP systems communicate mainly through RFC connections. These connection talk "SAP". They do not talk database or OS.

a while a go, I maintained and R/3 4.7 system on HP-UX... and BI 3.5 on Windows 2000 for a very long time with no issues whatsoever.

You can even have your central instance on HP-UX and application servers on Windows and/or Linux.

Former Member
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Hi Eric,

Thanks for the input. This has been very helpful to me.

My only issue now is that they want to run Netweaver 7.3 on SQL SERVER 2008 R2, and I see via the PAM that is not recommended. I'm going to try to push them running it on Oracle 11g.

former_member204746
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I dont' know where you got that info.

Netweaver 7.3 is supported on MS-SQ 2008 and Windows 2008 R2.

https://websmp105.sap-ag.de/~form/handler?_APP=00200682500000001303&_EVENT=D_DETAILS&002006825000000...

Former Member
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Ah. I was mistaken. I looked at the Netweaver 7.3 PAM and was mistakenly looking at the IA64 architecture.

Interestingly enough, when I look at the downloads for Windows, I only see Oracle. To install on SQL Server 2008 R2, do I simply do the SQL install myself separately from running sapinst?

Pardon my ignorance. My experience for installing SAP is all on AIX/Oracle.

markus_doehr2
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> Interestingly enough, when I look at the downloads for Windows, I only see Oracle. To install on SQL Server 2008 R2, do I simply do the SQL install myself separately from running sapinst?

Licenses for SAP systems are usually tight up with the database licenses. If the contract you actually have covers only Oracle, then you can't install a SAP system on SQL Server (and vice versa).

Even if you can install the system with a different database you will not be able to get a license key for another database.

Markus

Former Member
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Ah, that is very good to know, and makes complete sense.

Thanks for all your help on this Markus.

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