While upgrading SAP Information Platform Services (IPS) 4.1 to SAP IPS 4.2 Service Pack 2, the installer notifies you that SAP IPS 4.2 (like SAP BO 4.2) requires a new license key and that this can be generated through SAP Marketplace.
As we just completed a SAP BusinessObjects 4.2 SP02 upgrade, this wasn't a surprise and we generated a new key through SAP Marketplace.
However.... with SAP IPS, this is a bit confusing. IPS was never a separately sold or licensed product, which is why previous installations included the "InstallIPS.exe" which kicked-off the installer with a pre-defined 'dummy' license key.
Now looking at Marketplace, I cannot find any entry for SAP IPS key generations? If I select our registered Data Services environment, I can generate a DS key but that's not what we need here. (In IPS 4.1 and below, the DS key would not allow you to install IPS - you really needed a BO-like key .. hardly surprising as IPS is just a stripped-out BO CMC.) If I look under BO, I see our BO keys etc but that's not that we need either.
Has anyone successfully generated a new key for SAP IPS 4.2 SP02 and if so, how and where?
Stranger still - after acknowledging this requirement in the IPS 4.2 SP02 update installer and selected to continue with the installation, SAP IPS 4.2 SP02 appears to be completely functional? All servers, including the EIM APS, were enabled, running and fully functional.
So do we really need a new license key at all or is this message just a result of the "copy and paste" when generating a new IPS version from the BO CMC code?