Unfortunately the ABAP Platform, Developer Edition for Docker is currently not available for installation. But for everyone who still uses it I will quickly describe how you can update the ABAP and HANA License. The blog post by Andre Fischer on How to install a new license in your SAP ABAP Platform Developer Edition isn’t helping anymore as the license that you can download from https://developers.sap.com/trials-downloads.html?search=ABAP+Platform expired on 11th August 2022.
For me this resulted in the error message:
JCO_ERROR_SYSTEM_FAILURE: Error DBSQL_SQL_ERROR occured. SQL=437 P3=SQL message: only commands for license handling are allowed in current state
Luckily I got help from Marc Bernard in the abapGit Slack. Here are the steps I did:
Most of the information you need is provided during startup of the container. There you will see the following:
--- Retrieving HDB license information --- HDB Hardware Key : B1002322283 HDB Expiration Date: 2022-09-07 23:59:59 Days to expire : 26 --- Updating HDB license: found the file /opt/sap/HDB_license Removing the current HANA License 0 rows affected (overall time 18.948 msec; server time 17.791 msec) 0 rows affected (overall time 50.497 msec; server time 49.373 msec) Installing the license from the file /opt/sap/HDB_license Welcome to the SAP HANA Database interactive terminal. Type: h for help with commands q to quit * 437: only commands for license handling are allowed in current state SQLSTATE: HY000 0 rows affected (overall time 427.658 msec; server time 424.146 msec) --- hdb_license_update: started, pid=1585 asabap_license_update: starting --- Retrieving AS ABAP license information --- SAP License Key Administration - Copyright (C) 2003 - 2016 SAP AG System ID. . . . : A4H Hardware Key . . : J1851296352 (of this computer) Installation No. : DEMOSYSTEM System No. . . . : 000000000800588472 Release. . . . . : 777 Software products: NetWeaver_HDB --- AS ABAP license can be automatically renewed from the file /opt/sap/ASABAP_license Hint: new container : docker run ... -v <local file path>:/opt/sap/ASABAP_license Hint: existing container: docker cp <local file path> <container name>:/opt/sap/ASABAP_license ---
That’s most of the information you need to renew your license. You can get a new license for ABAP and HANA at https://go.support.sap.com/minisap/#/minisap for ABAP choose A4H – SAP NetWeaver AS ABAP 7.4 and above (Linux / SAP HANA) and for HANA use HDB – SAP HANA Platform Edition (64GB).
Before you can use the downloaded license files you need to replace the SYSTEM-NR with the corresponding number that was displayed during startup. Then copy the files as described, stop and start the containe
