You are in the midst of performing system copy activity with SAP software provisioning manager but end-up with below error message,
An error occurred while processing option SAP Business Suite 7i 2016 >
EHP8 for SAP ERP 6.0 ABAP > MS SQL Server > System Copy > Target System >
Distributed System > Based on AS ABAP > Primary Application Server Instance
(Last error reported by the step: Process call 'E:\usr\sap\SID\SYS\exe\uc\NTAMD64\saplikey
pf=\\HOSTNAME\sapmnt\SID\SYS\profile\SID_D00_HOSTNAME -install_first_temp W12345678 XXXXXX' exits with error code 2.
For details see log file(s) saplikey.log,
From the saplikey.log file, you notice the following message,
saplikey: failed to connect to the database.
Solution
The are multiple causes related to this error, you might want to check the following resolutions,
- The error could be possibly due to the missing environment variables. Focus specially in the environment variables DIR_LIBRARY and LD_LIBRARY_PATH. You may refer to the SAP note 2450399 – SWPM: saplikey returns error code 2 (temp license).
- Login to the operating system with the sidadm and execute r3trans command. Open the trans.log file. In our case, it was due to missing SQL native client. Please see this article R3trans: ODBC Driver chosen: SQL Server non-native for details.
