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Purpose

  • May 12, 2003 on the fly from Windows explorer. No need to type SAPCAR. First, double-click on any SAR or CAR files. It will ask you with which program to open this file. Click on OTHER. Find the path to SAPCAR and Click OPEN. Now, click on 'OK'. This will fail but it's OK for now. Do the same for the other type (SAR or CAR).
  • How To Install Sapcar On Windows. In case you want to run the unicode version of SAPCAR the shared library libsapu16. Is needed (where 'lib ext' is one of 'dll', 'so', 'sl' or 'o'). How To Install Sapcar On Aix. Make sure that this library resides in the search path of the program loader of your operating system.
  • Apr 08, 2013 Search for keyword “SAPCAR”. Choose any of the latest SAPCAR from the search result. Ensure, you are selecting and downloading SAPCAR.EXE with 32-bit functionality. Go to the directory of your downloaded SAPCAR location and execute the SAPCAR command. For easier execution, you can just put the SAPCAR.EXE and the SAR file into 1 folder.

To offer some help with kernel update.


Overview

Sapcar will unpack.sar files. Sapcar –xvf Installation Under Windows. Before the installation, ensure that you have installed the specified Microsoft security patch in accordance with the instructions in SAP Note 1375494. Additionally you will need to install the latest. You require the SAPCAR tool to be able to unpack and verify software component archives (.SAR files). SAR is the format of software lifecycle media and tools that you can download from the SAP Software Download Center. For more information about how to get this tool, see the Procedure section below.

CHECK BEFORE

Check the current kernel version:

  1. System > Status:

  2. Operating system level:

DOWNLOAD

Download kernel from Support packages and patches ---> By Alphabetical Index (A-Z) ---> K ---> SAP kernel <bit> <uc> ---> SAP kernel <release> (...) ---> There choose <operating system> ---> both #Database independent and <database specific> archives
Example:

EXTRACTION, UPDATE

  1. Change to profile folder:
  2. Find the instance profile
  3. Find DIR_CT_RUN by 'sappfpar check pf=<instance pf with full path> DIR_CT_RUN'
  4. Copy kernel folder, in this case NTAMD64 as NTAMD64.bak
  5. Copy SAR files one level above, in this case to '<drive>:usrsap<SID>SYSexeuc':
  6. Stop SAP at this point. Also stop sapstartsrv processes of this SAP system. Refer to Starting and Stopping SAP Systems Based on SAP NetWeaver
  7. Extract kernel archives by 'sapcar -xfj <SAR archive> -R <destination folder>'. First extract SAPEXE and SAPEXEDB SAR files and then the rest (dw sar, lib_dbsl sar, etc):
  8. Start SAP start service SAP<SID>_<instance nr> from Windows service manager or by sapcontrol -nr <instance nr> -function StartService <SID> command
  9. Restart SAP:
  10. Restart SAP Start Service:

CHECK AFTER

Check the new kernel version:

  1. System > Status:
  2. Operating system level:

Starting and Stopping SAP Systems Based on SAP NetWeaver

Related Documents

Related SAP Notes/KBAs

SAP Note 19466 : Downloading SAP kernel patches
SAP Note 2576697 : Web Dispatcher in SCS instance: system start after kernel switch fails

Symptom

On the fly from Windows explorer. No need to type SAPCAR. First, double-click on any SAR or CAR files. Adobe pagemaker 6.5 plus. It will ask you with which program to open this file. Age of empire 2 game. Click on OTHER. Find the path to SAPCAR and Click OPEN. Now, click on 'OK'. This will fail but it's OK for now. Do the same for the other type (SAR or CAR). SAPCAR (older version was called CAR) is a compress utility (similar to winzip, tar, zip, gz, etc.), that is used by SAP to compress and decompress nearly all delivered files and executables. On Windows Operating Systems, the executables are called SAPCAR.EXE and CAR.EXE.

You want to use SAPCAR functionality in Windows XP operating system.

Solution

1. Login to SAP Service Marketplace. Go to Software Download > Search for Software Downloads. Search for keyword “SAPCAR”.

2. Choose any of the latest SAPCAR from the search result. Ensure, you are selecting and downloading SAPCAR.EXE with 32-bit functionality.

3. Go to the directory of your downloaded SAPCAR location and execute the SAPCAR command. For easier execution, you can just put the SAPCAR.EXE and the SAR file into 1 folder location. As in this example, both SAPCAR.EXE and TEST.SAR are in folder D:itsititest.

4. You are now successfully un-car the SAR file and you can check the files extracted.

In this blog, we explain how to extract the SAP HANA client on macOS. Files on SAP Software Downloads have the SAR extension. This provides a few challenges on the latest macOS versions but nothing we can’t handle.

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The new archiving tool SAPCAR

Older readers might remember when SAP introduced a new archiving tool to replace the previous CAR (Compressed ARchive) utility some two decades ago. The tools were not compatible, so for SAPCAR the extension SAR was chosen.

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SAPCAR only exists as command line tool, there is no graphical version, and the syntax resembles that of the UNIX TAR utility with -x for extract, -v for verbose (show me), and -f for file, to list a few common ones.

Tar was developed to bundle a number of files into a single Tape ARchive file (but works on disk too). Tar does not compress files and so it is often used together with zip to create a zipped tarball, which somewhat resembles our SAR files.

As Linux and macOS are UNIX descendants, we find tar on these operating systems as well.

SAP Service Marketplace is being retired

To download SAP software, we need to navigate to Software Downloads on the SAP ONE Support Launchpad. This used to be the Software Download Center (SWDC) on the SAP Service Marketplace (SMP) but that was decommissioned in 2018. You might still find references to SWDC or SMP as not everybody read the blog post yet

  • SAP Service Marketplace is being retired (2018)

Or maybe because the shortcut still works

IMDB_CLIENT20

From Software Downloads, we can download the in-memory database SAP HANA client 2.0. There is one for Linux, UNIX (several versions), Microsoft Windows, and macOS.

  • File type: SAR
  • Operating system: MACOS X 64-BIT

What version do you need? Always pick the latest as there is a “single public release” strategy which “removes ambiguity about which version to install, brings the benefits of new performance or stability improvements to all customers”.

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There is a SAPCAR utility for most operating systems and this includes (as of 7.21) macOS.

  • File type: EXE
  • Operating system: MACOS X 64-BIT

Because Microsoft Windows applications are not supported on macOS

From the Windows world we have learned that we can double-click executable files (EXE) to execute. Doing so, will return a friendly message that Microsoft Windows applications are not supported on macOS.

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The developer cannot be verified

Because of the EXE extension, macOS assumes it is a Windows binary. When we open Terminal and do a file check with the file command, this confirms it is a Mach-O 64-bit executable: perfectly fine.

Executing the file however returns permission denied because the download comes with only RW permissions for the current user. This is easy to fix with a chmod u+x.

At this stage, macOS protection kicks in to as the file is unsigned and might as well be malware. Move to Bin? No. Cancel.

Allow Anyway

If you agree that SAP software can be trusted, open System Preferences > Security & Privacy and select Allow Anyway

Are you sure you want to open it?

Run the SAPCAR command again and select Open to allow.

Usage

Just running the command returns usage. Watch naruto shippuden english dubbed. To extract files from an archive:

As the version number and the .EXE file extension serve no particular purpose, let’s rename the file and, while at it, move it to the bin directory so we do not have to specify current directory when not in the path (./). As we move the file to a protected directory this requires superuser (su) permission:

Long Story, Short Story

Ablebits for mac software. For those that prefer a shortcut, here are the commands that rename the file, set the execution bit, the proper group, and remove the quarantine property. Thanks to Witalij Rudnicki for the last one.

Install the SAP HANA Client

Tools On-Demand

If you prefer, you can also download the SAP HANA client from the SAP Development Tools website: tools.hana.ondemand.com (for the story behind the URL, see At Your Service: SAP HANA in the Cloud).

For macOS, this download comes as a zipped tarball (.tar,gz).

To extract, run the command

Or in case you have configured macOS to automatically extract zipped files, with

Common Crypto Lib

However, although the release number is the same (2.4), only the client from Software Downloads contains the SAP cryptography library Common Crypto Lib (CCL).

You will need this to connect with your client to the SAP HANA Service, for example. See

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