SAP ERP 6.0 EHP6 IDES Install on Oracle and Windows 2008 R2

There are many tutorials over the internet about installing SAP IDES installation, but most of them are

missing some details. In this tutorial, I will try to put all the information that you will need for installing

SAP IDES on fresh Windows Server 2008 R2 OS install without a need for any technical knowledge.

As I already wrote earlier, without access to real SAP ERP IDES system, it will be impossible to

develop your SAP skills and knowledge. If you read this tutorial, you probably have access to following

software packages:

OS: Windows 2008 R2 64 bit

DB: Oracle 11g

ERP: SAP 6.0 EHP6 IDES ABAP Stack

GUI: SAP GUI 7.*

I am going to install it for this demonstration on following a laptop with following characteristics:

CPU: Core 2 Duo T8300

RAM: 8GB

HDD1: 80 GB 7200 rpm (64 GB used including 25GB SWAP, Oracle DB Software and Windows)

HDD2: 750 GB 7200 rpm (249 GB used for SAP & DB Install)

Usually, the bottlenecks of every SAP system are the HDD and Memory. That’s the reason I wanted to

go with two HDDs which will allow me to divide the load at least on two physical drives. The smaller

one will be for Windows OS, SWAP file and DB Software. The second one will be for SAP Software

and DB Instance. I recommend you to install a pure ABAP stack instead of JAVA + ABAP because it

will be lighter and in the same time is sufficient for FICO training.

There several important steps in the installation:

I. Change the Computer name

II. Create SWAP Space

III. Install Oracle RDBMS

IV. Java SDK install (Optional)

V. SAP ERP EHP6 IDES

VI. SAP GUI Install

I. Change the Computer name (less than 13 characters):

To change it, you will need to go to advanced system settings. The easiest ways is to write “system

settings” in the windows taskbar.

Click on “View advanced system settings”.

Go to tab Computer name and hit “Change…”. Change the computer name. If you try to

change the workgroup, the system will need a restart.

II. Create at least 20 GB SWAP Space

Go Again to advanced system settings, click on Advanced, then click on “Performance”, then again on

“Advanced” and hit “Change”. Uncheck the “Automatically manage paging file size for all drives”. Then

set custom size at least 20 480 MB.

III. Install Oracle RDBMS

In the RDBMS package folder, go to subfolder \database\SAP and start “sapserver.cmd” as

administrator.

Enter the drive letter in which you want to install the Oracle software. It takes around 30 GB

HDD space.

Enter three characters for the name of the SAP Instance. e.g. – ECC

Configure Security Updates

Set email if you would like to receive additional information about security issues. For this demo, I will

uncheck the wish to receive security updates.

Download Software Updates

Enter your credentials or skip the updates:

Installation Option

Leave it by default:

Grin Installation Options

Leave it by default:

Product Language

Choose if you want another language other than English and click next:

Database Edition:

Leave it by default:

Click Next & Next and then “Install” button.

IV. Install Java Runtime – JAVA_HOME (Optional Step for ABAP Stack)

For ABAP stack it is no required to install JAVA SDK, but it is recommended.

Download and install – j2sdk-1_4_2_-windows-amd64.

Install everything which is set by default.

Go to C:\ and find the new folder where the java is installed:

Copy the full path

Go again to “advanced system settings”:

Choose Advanced tab and open the “Environment Variables”:

Click on “New”, enter a variable name and a path to the java folder.

Find the “Path” variable and add following in the end.

;%JAVA_HOME%\bin

V. Install SAP ERP ECC IDES

Go to Installation Master Folder, click on the sapinst file, run it as administrator and choose

the following option:

Choose “Typical”:

Click OK

The Windows will log off. You should logon again where SAP installation will continue automatically.

If the SAP install asks for prerequisites checker, click next and mark the flags as on the next

screenshot

Choose following options:

Choose database type:

Leave next screen as it is by default:

Click Next till the prerequisite checking starts.

After finishing if you have a warning about JAVA SDK ignore it and proceed with the installation.

Enter the SAP SID

Unmark “Set FQDN for SAP System” if such is marked initially:

Fill initial master password for the administrators’ users in SAP ERP – SAP* and DDIC users:

Enter passwords for Windows users which are created during installation. It will be requested when

you start SAP Instance.

In next several steps choose the right folders with related packages necessary for installing:

Try with Export 2 or Export 11 on following screen:

Oracle parameters. Leave it by default.

Kernel NW 7.20 – SL Controller

DAA leave it by default:

Click yes on DAA window:

Mark “No SLD destination”.

Installation begins. Import ABAP step will take around 12 hours. The whole installation took around 20

hours on the hardware described above.

VI. SAP GUI Install

Next step is to install SAP Graphical User Interface or also known as SAP GUI. You will find SAP GUI

for Windows and SAP GUI for JAVA. You will find SAP GUI for JAVA packages for MAXC OS X,

Linux, Windows, etc.

In this tutorial, I will show you how to install and setup SAP GUI for Windows.

a) Start installation with executing SapGuiSetup.exe

*Depending on the package that you download, you could have different files

Click on “Next”

Mark “SAP GUI for Windows” and click on “Next”

Choose different folder or leave it by default:

The installation will start after confirmation, and it will probably take around 15 minutes.

b) Setup your SAP GUI and connect to your SAP ERP IDES server

Start SAP Logon Application.

Create New Connection

Choose “Next”.

Enter IP address of the SAP Server. You could also enter localhost if you installed SAP GUI on the

same OS/machine as your SAP ERP IDES.

Fill an “Instance Number” in the following field. Usually, it is 00.

Enter SAP SID that you defined earlier during installation

Leave SAProuter String blank except you know what you are doing :).

Here is how my setup looks like when I am installing SAP GUI on the same OS as the SAP IDES

Demo Server.

Double click on the connection that we configured:

On logon screen enter Client 800 (Main client for FICO).

You could enter with following users and related passwords.

user: idadmin / password: ides

user: sap*/ password: (defined during installation) (For 8x clients password – 06071992)

user: ddic/ password: (defined during installation) (For 8x clients password – 19920706)