Good morning - We run our SAP systems on Oracle database, currently 11.2.0.4.
We are looking at upgrading to Oracle 12.1.0.2. I was reviewing Note 2133079 - Oracle Database 12c: Integration in SAP environment.
In the section labeled
"SAP Upgrade and Enhancement Package Update certification status with Oracle 12.1", it lists the following limitation:
If you use a NetWeaver 7.X based SAP product with Oracle version 12.1 you can only upgrade or update to a SAP target release that is based on
NetWeaver 7.40 or higher. In other words, with Oracle version 12.1 SAP upgrades or Enhancement package Updates are only supported to SAP
target release that run on NetWeaver 7.40 or higher. This will be a permanent requirement.
Does this mean that if we have a NW 7.02-based system, such as SAP GRC 10.0 or SAP Solution Manager 7.1, and we upgrade the database to Oracle12.1.0.2, we would no longer be able to use Software Update Manager(SUM) to apply support packages for the current release? This would
mean we have no choice but to upgrade GRC to 10.1 (which is NW 7.40-based), and for Solution Manager wait until possibly Solution Manager
7.2 (if that is still the next planned version)? This is what the note seems to imply.
Any clarification you guys could make on this? We can't be the only ones in this boat!!
--NICK