SOLMAN 4 Upgrade - R3trans fails - NLS Language

Question

Hi,
We are currently upgrading Solution Manager to version 4, and hit a problem with R3trans not connecting because of the NLS_LANG. Current release Oracle 10g - Solaris 9.
I did check on the SDN site and found other customers had experienced the same problem relating to the NLS language.
It seems like the upgrade is trying to execute R3trans from /usr/sap/put/exe directory, which is kernel 7.
TNS, Listener are all configured fine to run on Oracle 10g. If i try R3trans -x from  the current kernel (6.40), it works fine. I also tried to set the NLS_LANG to WE8DEC, but then R3trans (6.40) does not connect.
error message:
'SAPPSM/<pwd>@DSM' is connected (con_hdl 0, nls_hdl 0).
TRACE-INFO: 45:                                                                                1228  0.867349
TRACE-INFO: 46:  [dev trc     ,00000]  Database NLS settings: AMERICAN_AMERICA.WE8DEC               2602  0.869951
TRACE-INFO: 47:  [dbsloci.    ,00000]  *** ERROR => Env. NLS_LANG (AMERICAN_AMERICA.US7ASCII) not set appropriately (DB installation requires AMERICAN_AMERICA.WE8DEC) ==> connection refused
TRACE-INFO: 48:                                                                                64  0.870015
tp returncode summary:
TOOLS: Highest return code of single steps was: 0
ERRORS: Highest tp internal error was: 0232
tp finished with return code: 232
meaning:
  connect failed
Process with ID 4169 terminated with status 232
All help will be rewarded !!!
Many thanks,
Morgan Moodley

Answer 1

Hi,
Problem has been resolved!!
Solution:-
Set ORA_NLS33 to point to the Oracle 9 client library.
Since the current Kernel is on 6.40, we had to point to the Oracle 9 client.
Accoring to the Oracle 10g upgrade guide, this value had to be unset.
Many thanks to the people that responded to my message.
Regards,
Morgan