On June 23rd, Edgardo Gildo König and Dr. Thomas Obermeier of SAP presented the Technical Monitoring Cockpit (TMC) in an SAP on IBM i webcast. If you could not attend the webcast in person, you now have the opportunity to take a look at the slide deck and listen to the replay. They both are available at http://ibm.biz/RadioSAPIBMi. Open the folder named 2021 and then the folder named June 2021 to get to this Webcast. Find out what you need to install to use the Technical Monitoring Cockpit, learn about the advanced features to display, drill-down and analyze the database and operating system performance data and get references to more documentation regarding TMC. The next SAP on IBM i webcast is planned for September. Stay tuned for more details and registration information.

By the way: Today marks the 25th anniversary of SAP on IBM i. With the release of SAP Note 40265 on June 28th, 1996, SAP R/3 3.0C was made available in general for OS/400 V3R6M0 as the first SAP release on OS/400, the predecessor of IBM i. Over the past 25 years, both hardware and software have been significantly enhanced: from the Muskie 53S 4-way processor with 154 MHz to the POWER9 E980 48-way processor with 3.9 GHz, from OS/400 V3R6M0 to IBM i 7.4 and from SAP R/3 3.0C with an EBCDIC database to SAP NetWeaver AS ABAP 7.52 with a Unicode database and countless new features over SAP R/3 3.0C. The tremendous amount of experience that is collected in the evolutionary development of the modern SAP products on IBM i is the basis for stability and reliability of your SAP system today.

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