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Best Practices for SAP BI using DB2 9 for z/OS - IBM Redbooks

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► <strong>SAP</strong> <strong>BI</strong> user<br />

► <strong>SAP</strong> <strong>BI</strong> password<br />

You also must choose this data:<br />

► Password <strong>for</strong> TREX administrator<br />

► Name of the shared directory<br />

► Root password <strong>for</strong> SUSE on blades<br />

And you are asking to create a new RFC connection on an <strong>SAP</strong> <strong>BI</strong> system.<br />

The installation itself must be done by an <strong>IBM</strong> specialist and consists of four<br />

steps:<br />

1. Get parameters <strong>for</strong> installation.<br />

2. Install <strong>BI</strong>A (TREX) on first blade.<br />

3. Clone the installed <strong>BI</strong>A on the remaining blades.<br />

4. Configure the RFC connection to the <strong>SAP</strong> <strong>BI</strong> system.<br />

You can check the installation with the command “check<strong>BI</strong>A.sh”. If the <strong>SAP</strong> <strong>BI</strong>A<br />

was stopped you can manage it with the TREX graphic admin tool running the<br />

shell “TREXAdmin.sh”. If it was already running you can manage it from inside<br />

<strong>SAP</strong> <strong>BI</strong> with the transaction “TREXADMIN”.<br />

9.5 <strong>BI</strong>A administration<br />

Administration of the <strong>BI</strong>A was integrated on the management workbench of the<br />

<strong>BI</strong> server. From the <strong>BI</strong>A side, there only needs to be maintenance and current<br />

updates on installed software: Linux SUSE, <strong>BI</strong>A, and GPFS software, and some<br />

HW maintenance: Blades, storage, and networking.<br />

The impact on the administration comes on the <strong>BI</strong> side. The tuning of the query<br />

per<strong>for</strong>mance and fewer indexes and aggregates makes the administration of <strong>BI</strong><br />

easier.<br />

9.6 Benefits of <strong>BI</strong>A<br />

<strong>BI</strong>A provides a different approach to improve query per<strong>for</strong>mance than <strong>using</strong><br />

aggregates. <strong>BI</strong>A improves query per<strong>for</strong>mance on selected InfoCubes and also<br />

cuts administering tasks and the related resources.<br />

Chapter 9. <strong>SAP</strong> <strong>BI</strong> Accelerator 201

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