If you want to make a connection from your SAP system which is working on SUSE linux to remote SQL server then you can follow the below steps and check the related OSS notes which are defined in this article.

First of all you need to install following packages to your Linux operating system ;

# Install Packages

 cd /nfs/sles_data/software/odbc/SLES_12

zypper in unixODBC-utf16-2.3.1-1.x86_64.rpm

zypper in msodbcsql-13.0.1.0-1.x86_64.rpm

zypper in mssql-tools-14.0.2.0-1.x86_64.rpm

zypper in unixODBC-utf16-devel-2.3.1-1.x86_64.rpm

Then you need to create following links ;

# Create Links

ln -sfn /opt/mssql-tools/bin/sqlcmd-13.0.1.0 /usr/bin/sqlcmd

ln -sfn /opt/mssql-tools/bin/bcp-13.0.1.0 /usr/bin/bcp

ln -s /usr/lib64/libodbc.so.2.0.0 /usr/lib64/libodbc.so.1

ln -s /usr/lib64/libodbcinst.so.2.0.0 /usr/lib64/libodbcinst.so.1

You can find the detail informations in these OSS notes ;

1774329 – Preparing your SAP instance to connect to remote SQL server

1601608 – How to access an external Microsoft SQL Server database

1644499 – Database connectivity from Linux to SQL Server

Now you can continue from SAP system ;

DBACockpit –>  DBA Connections –> Add

Provide the needed informations like below

Example “Connection Parameters” entry ;

MSSQL_SERVER=tcp:<server address> MSSQL_DBNAME=<SQL DB Name> OBJECT_SOURCE=MSSQL_SERVER

SAVE the entry and TEST it like the below picture ;

– MESSAGE Database connection <DBNAME>  established successfully