The Team - SAP on DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows

This IBM collaboration site provides information about DB2 UDB for Linux, UNIX and Windows within an SAP environment.
Our DB2 SAP Development Team and the Center of Excellence optimize IBM DB2 for your SAP software, delivering tighter integration, optimized performance and better overall value for your investment.
The development team designs, coordinates and developes new DB2 enhancements together with SAP and the Toronto DB2 Development Lab and the Center of Exellence builds, maintains and supports solutions to drive SAP related DB2 product sales by migrations for example.

On this site you will find a collection of the most important papers about optimizing and using DB2 for SAP.
This page contains the latest papers about DB2 and SAP topics.
All other papers are classified under administration, busines warehouse, and installation/upgrade.

Latest Publications

Reduce Your Costs with IBM DB2 Version 9.7 Optimized for SAP Software
Continuing its partnership with SAP, IBM recently released version 9.7 of DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows (DB2 LUW), which is IBM's fourth database version optimized for use in SAP environments since 2005. Learn how maximizing performance at the database level helps reduce costs, free up budgetary funds, increase user productivity, and contribute to the overall success of the business.
Reduce Your Costs with IBM DB2 Version 9.7 Optimized for SAP Software

A Practical Guide to Backup and Recovery
The database is the foundation of the SAP system and therefore a detailed understanding of the backup and recovery procedures for the database of the SAP system is required. The document is designed as a quick start document for new DB2 users and describes the DB2 backup and recovery architecture and its integration into SAP NetWeaver.
A Practical Guide to Backup and Recovery

Migrating SAP Systems to DB2
The new IBM Redbook "DB2 Optimization Techniques for SAP Database Migration And Unicode Conversion" is now available. It describes optimization strategies and best practices for migrating SAP systems towards IBM DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows, as well as for performing Unicode conversions.

Migrating SAP Systems to DB2

IBM DB2 and Transparent LDAP Authentication
With the new transparent LDAP feature of DB2, we do not need to configure any plug-ins anymore. DB2 can now access and support underlying operating systems that are configured to use LDAP as authentication mechanism for users and their groups. So, DB2 asks the operating system which can get the needed information from the LDAP server and returns it to the database. The database operates not differently from local system authentication. The LDAP authentication works now as a transparent feature in DB2.
IBM DB2 and Transparent LDAP Authentication

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