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SAP: How to find system information (Kernel version, Unicode, Installed Patches, ...)

Last Update: 26.06.2008

If you have to work on a SAP system it is very important to know its Kernel version and other informations about the system. For example you want to update the DB-Kernel but you don't know wheter you are using Kernel 7.00 or 7.10. The following two ways explain you how to get the informations you need to know.

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1. Command line
There is a very easy way to get all the system information you want with one simple command! First of all you need to log in as your SAP-administrator user. The default name is INSTANCEadm. So if your SAP instance is called SM1 it is most likely sm1adm.

su - sm1adm
disp+work -V | more

The command 'disp+work -V' gives you tons of information! It includes SAP Kernel, DB, operating system and patch informations. The begin of the output looks like this:

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disp+work information
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kernel release 700
kernel make variant 700_REL
DBMS client library MAXDB_760_b02
DBSL shared library version 700.08
compiled on Linux GNU SLES-9 x86_64 cc3.3.3
compiled for 64 BIT
compilation mode Non-Unicode
compile time Apr 21 2008 20:21:01
update level 0
patch number 157
source id 0.157

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2. SAP GUI
The second way to achieve these informations is to use the transaction code SM51 in the SAP GUI.