SAP BW on HANA - Migration Tools



To perform the migration of SAP BW system to HANA, you can use the following migration tools −

Software Provisioning Manager

Software Provisioning Manager allows you to perform various provision tasks and covers a broad range of platforms with different productions. Software Provisioning Manager can be used to set up a standalone engine, for migration of systems, or to copy a NetWeaver system.

Software Provisioning Manager 1.0 supports the following provisioning scenarios for SAP systems based on SAP NetWeaver −

  • Installation of new systems, instances, and standalone engines
  • System copy of existing systems
  • Transformation of systems such as via System Rename and Dual-Stack Split
  • Deletion of systems, instances, and standalone engines

Software Provisioning Manager 1.0 supports the following SAP NetWeaver releases, SAP Business Suite products, and SAP Solution Manager Releases based on them.

You can get the latest version from the following URL: https://help.sap.com/sltoolset

1680045 - Release Note for Software Provisioning Manager 1.0 SP17

SAP BW Migration Cockpit for SAP HANA

This tool is used to get an easy access to the most used and useful tools for migrating your SAP BW systems to and optimizing it for SAP HANA.

The SAP BW Migration Cockpit for SAP HANA combines several tools to make the migration of an existing SAP BW deployment to the SAP HANA platform smooth and easy to perform.

To use the cockpit, install and run ABAP program. In order to use the Check for Updates function, you might have to maintain the proxy settings in lines 21 and 22 of the code.

Program: ZBW_HANA_MIGRATION_COCKPIT

This tool can be used with SAP BW release 3.5 or higher.

To get the tool, you can refer to SAP Notes 1909597 - SAP BW Migration Cockpit for SAP HANA.

Go to the attachment tab and you can download the zip file.

SAP BW Migration Cockpit

In case any of the tool is not available on your local system, you can refer to the documentation tab and you can access online help and available SAP Notes.

This SAP Note is referred by −

Number Title
1729988 SAP BW powered by SAP HANA - Checklist Tool
1736976 Sizing Report for BW on HANA
1908367 SAP BW Transformation Finder
1847431 SAP BW ABAP Routine Analyzer

Data Migration Option of SUM

Data Migration Option (DMO) under Software Update Manager (SUM) simplifies the Unicode conversion, system update, and database migration in one tool.

SAP Note 2257362 - Database Migration Option (DMO) of SUM 1.0 SP17

To perform database migration using DMO, SAP HANA version 8.5 or higher is required. Target database SAP HANA depends on the source database with different requirements to perform an upgrade.

Source Database Requirements/Restriction
Oracle Oracle version 11.2 or higher
MaxDB

MaxDB 7.7: Version 7.7.07.47 or higher

MaxDB 7.8: Version 7.8.02.028 or higher

MaxDB 7.9 or higher: No restriction

Target release SAP_BASIS 740 SP11 not supported

MS SQL MS SQL 2005 (available on request), or a higher version Source SAP release must base on SAP_BASIS 700 or higher
DB2 (DB2 for z/OS) Target release of SAP_BASIS is 740 SP12 or higher
DB4 (DB2 for i)

Source SAP release must base on SAP_BASIS 700 or higher

DB4 i7.1 or higher

Target SAP release must base on SAP_BASIS 740 SP10 or higher

DB6 (DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows)

DB6 version 09.01.0000 or higher, if target SAP_BASIS release is lower than 740 SP8

DB6 version 09.7 FP5 or higher, if target SAP_BASIS release is 740 SP8 or higher

SAP HANA SAP HANA as source database is not supported
SAP

SAP ASE Version 16.0 SP02 patch level 02 or higher, if target release of SAP_BASIS is 750 or higher

According to PAM, if target release of SAP_BASIS is lower than 750

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