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Thursday 8 March 2012

Applying sap license

This article answers the following queries :
ü  How to apply SAP license in a SAP system?
ü  When to apply license for an SAP system?
ü  How to delete an existing license of an SAP system?
ü  What is the transaction code used to apply license in SAP?
ü  Explain the process of applying license in SAP?
ü  How to request an SAP license key?

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In SAP environment, there will be a requirement to install a license to a new installed SAP system or to a system refreshed from another system. This is the primary step in the post refresh activities of an SAP system.
SAP license key can be requested from Service Market Place from the following link :
Please download license key for a SAP system and store in your local desktop.
Once the license files are downloaded from market place, login into 000 client using SAP* user into  ABAP stack of an SAP system on which you would like to apply license.
SLICENSE is the transaction code for applying license in SAP system.
Execute transaction SLICENSE, which results in a screen similar to below



To  list  old licenses existing in the system, click on “Old Licenses” tab in the above screen. It lists all the old licenses.

























Select each license and delete license by navigating as shown in above screen
Repeat this step until all old licenses are deleted.
To install new license click on install button  shown in the below screen




It opens screen as shown below. Please navigate to the location where license file that was downloaded from market place was kept in your desktop and select the file and click open to input the license file.




It then displays message as below after successful installation of license key.





















12 comments:

Anonymous said...

Excellent............

Anonymous said...

superb!!!

Deeraj Shetty said...

Very precise. It would be very helpful if you can post article on applying license for java stack through visual admin and NWA.

Anonymous said...

superb

Anonymous said...

All your blogs are excellent..The way u r explaning things is awesome

Chinmay Samal said...

after complete this process. License Expiration Date is not showing me

Anonymous said...

Thankyou so much durga

Bhushan Padala said...

Nice but one question, in case of System refresh do we need to download and install or we can use the previously copied license?

v said...

No you need to download new one from service marketplace

Unknown said...

nice work

Unknown said...

We sincerely request you to start tutorials on HANA database..

Anonymous said...

Eagerly waiting

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