Question
You have an on-premises SAP environment that uses AIX servers and IBM DB2 as the database platform.
You plan to migrate SAP to Azure. In Azure, the SAP workloads will use Windows Server and Microsoft SQL Server as the database platform.
What should you use to export from DB2 and import the data to SQL Server?
- A. R3load Correct
- B. Azure SQL Data Warehouse
- C. SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
- D. R3trans
Explanation
Moving SAP from AIX/DB2 to Windows/SQL Server is a heterogeneous OS/DB migration, and SAP's tool for it is R3load (driven by SWPM and Migration Monitor), which exports the database to platform-independent dump files and imports them into the target database. SSMS is a SQL Server administration tool and cannot export an SAP DB2 database in a form SAP supports. R3trans moves transport objects and client data, not whole databases, and Azure SQL Data Warehouse is not a supported SAP database target.
