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March 4th, 2014 – AIX 7.1 TL3 and AIX 6.1 TL9 tested with SAP NetWeaver
Although new AIX techlevels do not require certification from SAP, the development team has perfomed tests to ensure that the new TLs run OK with SAP Netweaver based applications. Refer to SAP notes 1541935 "Using SAP systems with AIX 7.1" and 1137862 "Using SAP systems with AIX 6.1" for more details.
February 18th, 2014 – New SAP on AIX Recommendations note available
SAP note 1972803 "SAP on AIX: Recommendations" contains a summary of relevant topics for running SAP systems on AIX.
February 7th, 2014 – TCP/IP hang condition
A process hang condition has been observed when importing data with R3load. See SAP note 1976256 for fix availability.
January 20th, 2014 – SAP Kernel 7.40 and higher startup fail due to multicast issue
Service Pack SP1 of AIX Technology Levels (TLs) AIX 6.1 TL8 and AIX 7.1 TL2 are causing startup problems with SAP Kernel 7.40 and higher. The issue is fixed with SP2 of the respective TL. See SAP note 1931675 "IP multicast configuration for dispatcher wakeup mechanism" for further details.
December 19th, 2013 - New SAP Kernel 7.41 available
Find out about the minimum requirements for the AIX releases and C/C++ runtime environment to operate the 7.41 SAP kernel. More details can be found in SAP note 1780629 "AIX: Minimal OS Requirements for SAP Kernel".