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SAP Note 855772 - Distribution Monitor

Note Language: English Version: 43 Validity: Valid Since 10.01.2011

Summary

SymptomYou want to use the Distribution Monitor to speed up Unicode Conversion bydistributing the R3load workload to multiple machines.

Other termsUnicode conversion, R3load, System Copy optimization

Reason and PrerequisitesPrerequisites

o JRE version 1.5 or higher

o The JAVA_HOME environment variable must point to the JRE directory.

o SAP Basis Release 6.20 or higher.

o DISTMON.SAR

SolutionYou can get an overview of the Distribution Monitor by reading theDistributionMonitorUserGuide.doc and DistributionMonitor.ppt which areattached to this note and also are contained in the attached DISTMON.SAR.

Note:Distribution Monitor is intented to optimize Unicode Conversion downtime bydistributing the R3load workload to multiple machines. Since this approachincreases the complexity of the conversion, use it only if really needed.Do not use Distribution Monitor, if

o You want to use only one host to do the Unicode Conversion(use Sapinst or Migration Monitor instead)

o If you want to do Unicode Conversion Export and Import on differenthosts(use Sapinst or Migration Monitor instead)

Header Data

Release Status: Released for CustomerReleased on: 15.12.2010 11:57:11Master Language: EnglishPriority: Recommendations/additional infoCategory: Consulting

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SAP Note 855772 - Distribution Monitor

Primary Component: BC-I18-UNI I18N Unicode

Secondary Components:BC-INS-MIG DB/OS Migrations

Valid Releases

Software Component Release FromRelease

ToRelease

andSubsequent

SAP_BASIS 60 620 640 X

SAP_BASIS 70 700 700 X

Related Notes

Number Short Text

1417192 DB2 z/OS: DistMon DDLDB2.TPL issues

1319517 Unicode Collection Note

1296510 DB2-z/OS: fast load with load utility BatchPipes/MVSDS

1062976 DB2-z/OS: fast load with load utility and USS fifos

1043380 Efficient Table Splitting for Oracle Databases

1001383 Distribution Monitor - Known problems and fixes

857081 Unicode conversion: downtime estimate

784118 System Copy Java Tools

551344 Unicode Conversion Documentation

548016 Conversion to Unicode

Attachments

FileType

File Name Language Size

SAR DISTMON.SAR E 1.483 KB

PPT DistributionMonitor.ppt E 386 KB

ZIP DistributionMonitorUserGuide.zip E 77 KB