SAP Basis Notes & Runbooks - S/4HANA, SAP HANA & Linux Administration

SLES 15 OS Prerequisites & Baseline Hardening for SAP S/4HANA 2023 and HANA 2.0: Complete Field Runbook

End-to-end engineering runbook for provisioning and hardening SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 (SLES 15 SP3-SP6) for SAP S/4HANA 2023 (ABAP Kernel 7.93) and SAP HANA 2.0. Covers raw disk partitioning with GPT/LVM, XFS formatting without deprecated nobarrier, saptune v3 tuning, glibc AVX2 updates, THP madvise vs never, autoNUMA, CPU C-states, RemoveIPC=no, and chrony timer crash prevention per official SAP Notes.

HANA & Database

DB13 DB02 DBACOCKPIT ST04

Automating SAP HANA Housekeeping with SAP HANA Cleaner (hanacleaner) & DB13 SQL Fallback: Complete Modern Runbook

Production guide to deploying hanacleaner.py (SAP Note 2399996 / Christian Elswede), generic hdbuserstore MDC routing, HA cluster virtual hostname (-vlh) rules, and an automated DB13 SQL script for SAP HANA backup catalog cleanup without OS access.

Batch Jobs & Spool

SM59 SU01 PFCG SICF SA38 SE38

Setting Up Adobe Document Services (ADS) on SAP NetWeaver 7.5: ABAP Integration & Validation

Step-by-step setup of Adobe Document Services (ADS) on NetWeaver AS Java 7.5 for ABAP and SAP S/4HANA: Configuring ADSUSER and ADS_AGENT, SM59 RFC and Java callback destinations, ICF services, PDF validation with FP_TEST_00, and Reader Rights credentials.

Performance & Tuning

SMEMORY ST02 RZ10

Resolving TSV_TNEW_PAGE_ALLOC_FAILED: Dynamically Adjusting Memory Quotas with RSMEMORY Without Restarting SAP

Field runbook to resolve TSV_TNEW_PAGE_ALLOC_FAILED short dumps in SAP S/4HANA and NetWeaver: ABAP memory allocation sequence and an 8-step guide for using RSMEMORY (SMEMORY) to dynamically adjust Extended & Heap Memory quotas directly in Kernel memory without restarting the SAP instance.

HANA & Database

DB02 DBACOCKPIT ST04

SAP HANA: Detailed Memory Consumption Analysis Walkthrough (RCA Framework)

Comprehensive 3-step Top-Down RCA framework to diagnose High Memory and Out-Of-Memory (OOM) events on SAP HANA 2.0 using SQL Note 1969700 scripts: Identify Peak Time, break down memory allocators & top consumers, and pinpoint threads, users, and SAP transactions.

HANA & Database

OAC0 OACT CSADMIN

Installing SAP Content Server 7.5x (Linux) & Configuring GOS Storage for S/4HANA 2023+

End-to-end setup guide for SAP Content Server 7.5x on Linux with FileSystem driver, offloading Generic Object Services (GOS) attachments from database table SOFFCONT1 to reduce SAP HANA database memory footprint in S/4HANA 2023+.

Patching, Upgrades & SUM

SUM sapcontrol Telnet

Resolving SUM Java POST-UNDEPLOY-COMPONENTS Error: Dependency Conflict with tc/jax-rs/primary and tc/odata4j/primary

Troubleshooting guide for Software Update Manager (SUM) Java aborts during POST-UNDEPLOY-COMPONENTS on SAP NetWeaver and S/4HANA: Manual undeployment runbook via AS Java Telnet to resolve obsolete library conflicts without skipping.

Fiori & UI Technologies

/n/IWFND/MAINT_SERVICE /n/IWFND/ERROR_LOG /n/IWBEP/ERROR_LOG /n/IWFND/ROUTING ESH_COCKPIT /n/UI2/FLP_CUS_CONF /n/UI2/FLPCM_CUST

Deploying Embedded Fiori on SAP S/4HANA: STC01 Rapid Activation & Multi-Client Task Distribution

A concise 5-step STC01 Rapid Activation guide for Embedded Fiori on SAP S/4HANA: Cross-client vs client-specific execution scoping, essential check/monitor T-codes, common short dumps with workarounds, and Fiori cache invalidation runbook.

SAP Basis Runbooks & S/4HANA Operations