SAP BW on IBM AS/400

 Benefits
 Integrated architecture
 Database DB2 UDB for AS/400
 Automatic backup and recovery
 Low administration effort
 High availability
 Low cost of ownership
 Short implementation time

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SAP BW on IBM AS/400

 Facts and Features

 AS/400 uses 64-bit Technology for HW, OS and DB
 Scalable from single processor to 12 way SMP systems
 AS/400 can access up to 48 TB
 Encoded Vector Indices – EVIs
 Symmetric Multi Processing – SMP
 Star Join
 Automatic table partitioning
 Automatic database statistics
 Stored Procedures
 Logical Partitioning - LPAR (more than one system on one machine)

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SAP BW on IBM AS/400

 Recommendations
 use latest version of downward compatible kernel,
BW 1.2B with 4.5B kernel, BW 2.0A with 4.6B kernel
 latest PTF acc. IBM InfoAPAR II11832 (V4R4)
http://as400service.rochester.ibm.com/n_dir/nas4apar.nsf
/10370d560300be7c862564c00079d115/da69d967d3830b528625676a002
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 Further Information
 Documentation and hints on the SAP internal homepage of AS/400 Porting
Team
http://as0030.wdf.sap-ag.de:1080
 IBM V4R4 Online AS/400 database informationen:
http://www.as400.ibm.com/db2/v4r4book.htm

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