SAP BODS Cloud Migration

[biswarup9291]

Hello all,

Hope you are doing great..!!

I have a query to you all.

I am planning for a migration of our BODS landscape from on prem to Azure.

BODS is having DQM on top of it.

Below is the source version -

OS - Application - SUSE LINUX Ent. 12 SP05

OS - DB - SUSE LINUX Ent. 12 SP05

SAP Business Objects Data Services 4.2 SP05/IPS 4.2 SP5

DB - ASE16SP03PL05

Below is the target version on cloud -

SAP BO Data Services 4.3 SP02 Patch 4/IPS 4.3 SP 03 patch 7

DB - SAP ASE 16.0 SP04

OS - Application - SLES enterprise 15 SP5

OS - DB - SLES enterprise 15 SP5

Can anybody kindly help me with the document / link of the cloud migration steps of BODS? There are some extra steps need to be done for the data services. Kindly help me sharing the steps or processes of the same.

Also I need to know how to migrate DQM from on prem to cloud

Thanks in advance..

[DayaJha]

Hi Biswarup,

Please note that Lift & Shift is not officially supported as way of migrating your environment and we do not recommend it unless you are migrating the entire application server (VM) from one server to another.

By migrating the entire application server (VM), you also migrate the shared libraries and links referencing to some files that will always get broken when you simply copy the files from one application server (VM) to another.

Lift & Shift of just the application has very high chances of corrupting your entire application server and there are alot more possible point of failures.

Recommended Method

The recommended way is to install the application on the new server(cloud/on-prem) and to migrate all your repository data to that new server.

Please also remember to keep the old environment and only decommission it after verifying that the migration was successful.

References

• 1906622 - Migration of Data Services from a Business Intelligence platform to an Information platform services landscape
• 1998521 - Best Practices for upgrading older Data Integrator or Data Services repositories to the latest version of Data Services 4.2

Regards,

Daya Jha

[biswarup9291]

Thanks a lot Daya for the documents and your explanation. Really appreciate.

Kindly let me know about the migration steps of DQM and if there is any SNOTE / docs kindly share those with me.

Thanks in advance

[DayaJha]

Hi Biswarup,

Please refer reference Link for BODS upgrade related query: -

SAP Data Services 4.3 Upgrade steps

Regards,

Daya Jha

[biswarup9291]

Thanks for the link Daya. Kindly share if you have any doc for data services cloud migration. What are the steps we need to follow to migrate the data services configurations from on premise to Azure.

Same required for DQM. What are the steps to migrate DQM to cloud.

And one more question, as we are going with the latest version of BODS in target cloud, What is the best approach?

1. Migrate with same version and then upgrade BODS in Azure

2. Install the latest version of BODS in Azure and then migrate the configuration from on prem to cloud.

Please let me know

[DayaJha]

Hi Biswarup,

Its normal setup, please refer below links and steps

• Analysis of your current landscape in terms of Open issues, File system setup in current landscape, BODS Job schedule configuration, Credential of data store, Tomcat configuration, AL_Engine configuration etc...
• As your are changing the version, you have two option deploy same version in target using existing DB and then upgrade

Reference Link for upgrade: -

SAP Data Services 4.3 Upgrade steps

Regarding data quality you have to perform same steps as BODS, deploy it and then validate the configuration only extra setup is BADDI's needs to deploy in SAP Target system as well while configuration setup

I hope this will help!!!!

Regards,

Daya Jha

[biswarup9291]

I know for BOBJ we need to export the configurations using promotion management. But for data services, what all we need to export and what is the process for that?