Lesson Learned - SAP SOP 3.0.2.2 On-Premise - Must Read

Dear Community,
We had Sev 1 issue in our production system after system upgraded last night from 3.0.2.1 and 3.0.2.2...
Before upgrade :
Most of master data and Key figure data jobs ran in parallel ( Informatica ETL and loading data from staging table to core table) and we had old failed jobs in the que (select * from SAP_SFND."sap.sop.sopfnd.catalogue::SOPBG_CRON_JOB_ENTRY" where CRON_JOB_STATUS = 1
and CRON_JOB_TYPE = 'INTEGRATION') (Successful jobs have CRON_JOB_STATUS = 0)
What changed in this patch
With 3.0.2.2,
1) Data load jobs one by one
2) Current Job doesn't start unless previous job is run successfully..Current job stuck in the que with status “OUTSIDE_UPLOAD”.
What needs to be done
1) We had to change stuck job's status to "0"
2) After this fix, que got cleared and all data loads happened correctly.
Ref to OSS note 2136871 ( IBP Note and New parameter - Job_Thread_Count if you want to enable parallel threading and this option is not available in 3.0.2.2, as of now)
Thanks to SAP support team who identified the issue quickly and gave the direction....
Good luck
Thanks,
Krishna

> Hello, friends.
Hi,
> [...]
> Is anybody using SAP R/3 Enterprise 4.7x200
> on SuSE SLES 10 with Oracle 10.2.0.2 on a
> different server?
> 1. I do not think that it is the best combination,
> but I have to deal with this.
> [...]
it is a very common setup to put the database on a different host then the application servers. Actually, being able to do so is one of the benefits of the 3-tier architecture of SAP. Furthermore, with Linux come some restrictions regarding binary only drivers (e.g. for storage). Having the database on a remote host allows you to use these drivers (if the DB vendor allows them) as there is no SAP instance running on this particular host.
Best Regards,
Hannes Kuehnemund
SAP LinuxLab
PS: But if you don't like your setup, just add additional dialog instances on the database host, and convert one of them into your new CI. The only reason for such a consolidation may be the fact, that your hardware does have enough resources left for SAP and the database to run on a single host.

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