IBM DB2 9, DB2 V8 What is new with SAP Web Application Server 7.0 ?, General Preparation Steps

What is new with SAP Web Application Server 7.0 ?

•The z/OS USS Application Server is no longer supported. However you can install the Central Services on USS as part of a High Availability solution.

•rfcoscol is replaced by sapccmsr and SAPCL

￿Transaction ST04 allows monitoring of remote DB2 subsystems

￿The mass processing tool to convert indexes to NOT PADDED is available (Transaction DB2_IXFIX)

￿Modifications have been made to the PTF Checker Tool

￿New DBA Cockpit Monitoring Tool in Basis Support Package 12

￿DB2 9 certified July 2007

What is new with SAP Web Application Server 6.40 ?

•DB2 Version 8 is required for the SAP Web AS Release 6.40. Many new features of DB2 V8 are exploited:

-Table controlled partitioning

-System level backup and recovery

-Automatic extent management

-Accounting and WLM exploitation

-Transaction level accounting and workload management

-IFI enhancements

-Index only access for VARCHAR

•Unicode is now supported.

•DB2 Connect is used to connect non-z/OS application servers to DB2 (enhancements in the tool db2radm to setup DB2 Connect). ICLI is no longer used. For the Java stack, the DB2 JDBC Universal Driver is delivered with DB2 Connect and is used for connectivity.

•Stored procedures have replaced the usage of FTP for JCL job submission.

•New features in the planning calendar (transaction DB13)

-Exploitation of inline statistics and utilities TEMPLATE, MODIFY RECOVERY and MODIFY STATISTICS

-Protection of changed utility skeletons possible

-New design

•Recommendations for DB2 V8 system parameters (ZPARMs).

￿The SAP Solution Manager must be installed prior to any component installation. This is used to generate a key used during the input phase of the installation.

General Preparation Steps

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