Updating SAP ABAP Systems on UNIX and Linux: IBM Db2 for z/OS

Checking the System Time Zone Settings

After a release upgrade, make sure that the time zone settings of your system are up to date.

Context

The release upgrade with the Software Update Manager affects also the contents of the SAP database tables that contain time zone information. Therefore, after an upgrade, you must check the time zone settings of your system in all clients used, including client 000. Make sure that they are up to date.

If you have also used time zones that are not part of the current SAP standard, such as the now obsolete time zone “EST_”, you have to add these time zones again manually using transaction STZBC.

Procedure

See SAP Note 198411 Information published on SAP site for more information and the latest SAP time zone tables content.