license key tables in SAP

MLICHECK and SAPLIKEY are the two tables concerned with License Key.

MLICHECK table is only used for SAP BASIS/WEBAS 6.40 and below.
SAP_LIKEY table is for SAP products running on Netweaver 7.

SAPLIKEY (new licenses)
– Contains data for the new SAP-licenses
– Table exists since Release 700 (Netweaver 2004s)
– Table also exists in data dictionary therefore, it can be exported/imported with R3trans
– New licenses cannot be shown/installed with command line tool ‘SAPLICENSE‘

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MLICHECK (old licenses)
– Contains data for the old SAP-licenses
– Table exists in all Releases
– In upgraded Release 700 systems, there can also be used old licenses
(the old license do not expire after upgrade, check button ‘new/old license’ in transaction ‘SLICENSE’)
– There are NO entries in data dictionary for this table therefore, it cannot be exported with R3trans
– Old licenses can be shown/installed with command line tool ‘SAPLICENSE‘
– Can be exported with db specific tools

Let us check how the table and the t-code look like.

Storage of SAP License Keys in table SAPLIKEY:

T-Code SLicense: SAP License Administration.

Hope this info would be useful to some folks.

Applying sap license

In SAP environment, there will be a requirement to install a license to a new installed SAP system or to a system refreshed from another system. This is the primary step in the post refresh activities of an SAP system.

SAP license key can be requested from Service Market Place from the following link :

http://service.sap.com/licensekey

Please download license key for a SAP system and store in your local desktop.

Once the license files are downloaded from market place, login into 000 client using SAP* user into  ABAP stack of an SAP system on which you would like to apply license.

SLICENSE is the transaction code for applying license in SAP system.

Execute transaction SLICENSE, which results in a screen similar to below

To  list  old licenses existing in the system, click on “Old Licenses” tab in the above screen. It lists all the old licenses.

select each license and delete license by navigating as shown in above screen

Repeat this step until all old licenses are deleted.

To install new license click on install button  shown in the below screen.

It opens screen as shown below. Please navigate to the location where license file that was downloaded from market place was kept in your desktop and select the file and click open to input the license file.

It then displays message as below after successful installation of license key.