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Using a SAP ASE Database as a Target for AWS Database Migration Service

You can migrate data to SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE)–formerly known as Sybase–databases using AWS DMS, either from any of the supported database sources.

SAP ASE versions 15, 15.5, 15.7, 16 and later are supported.

Prerequisites for Using a SAP ASE Database as a Target for AWS Database Migration Service

Before you begin to work with a SAP ASE database as a target for AWS DMS, make sure that you have the following prerequisites:

  • You must provide SAP ASE account access to the AWS DMS user. This user must have read/write privileges in the SAP ASE database.

  • When replicating to SAP ASE version 15.7 installed on a Windows EC2 instance configured with non-Latin characters (for example, Chinese), AWS DMS requires SAP ASE 15.7 SP121 to be installed on the target SAP ASE machine.

Extra Connection Attributes When Using SAP ASE as a Target for AWS DMS

You can use extra connection attributes to configure your SAP ASE target. You specify these settings when you create the target endpoint. If you have multiple connection attribute settings, separate them from each other by semicolons with no additional white space.

The following table shows the extra connection attributes available when using SAP ASE as a target:

Name Description

enableReplication

Set to Y to automatically enable SAP ASE replication. This is only required if SAP ASE replication has not been enabled already.

additionalConnectionProperties

Any additional ODBC connection parameters that you want to specify.

Note

If the user name or password specified in the connection string contains non-Latin characters (for example, Chinese), the following property is required: charset=gb18030

Target Data Types for SAP ASE

The following table shows the SAP ASE database target data types that are supported when using AWS DMS and the default mapping from AWS DMS data types.

For additional information about AWS DMS data types, see Data Types for AWS Database Migration Service.

AWS DMS Data Types

SAP ASE Data Types

BOOLEAN

BIT

BYTES

VARBINARY (Length)

DATE

DATE

TIME

TIME

TIMESTAMP

If scale is => 0 and =< 6, then: BIGDATETIME

If scale is => 7 and =< 9, then: VARCHAR (37)

INT1

TINYINT

INT2

SMALLINT

INT4

INTEGER

INT8

BIGINT

NUMERIC

NUMERIC (p,s)

REAL4

REAL

REAL8

DOUBLE PRECISION

STRING

VARCHAR (Length)

UINT1

TINYINT

UINT2

UNSIGNED SMALLINT

UINT4

UNSIGNED INTEGER

UINT8

UNSIGNED BIGINT

WSTRING

VARCHAR (Length)

BLOB

IMAGE

CLOB

UNITEXT

NCLOB

TEXT

AWS DMS does not support tables that include fields with the following data types. Replicated columns with these data types show as null.

  • User-defined type (UDT)