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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 a non-Latin language (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. Multiple extra connection attribute settings should be separated by a semicolon.

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)