tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34613911052308456602012-01-31T14:53:27.430+01:00something about SAPsapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.comBlogger2731100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-88711717761476076572012-01-25T21:49:00.000+01:002012-01-25T21:49:02.000+01:00Blogs reposting 1Today just reporting few blogs that I posted at SDN recently. Just in order to have a link to them from here I'm doing this repost. So here they are:
What year 2011 gave to SDN?
SAP HANA - composite post
Tuning of BWA – FEMS compression
Things that drive me crazy on SDN
sapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-87688387996458751662011-12-26T23:30:00.001+01:002011-12-26T23:30:11.208+01:00Other ways of starting Process Chains<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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SMP
messages are kind of communication channel between SAP support organization and
SAP’s customer. The aim is to support customers within their problems with SAP
applications. Customer reports problems via SMP
under /message link. There are 4
priorities (see below) defined from which customers can choose according
problem’s severity. After submitting support message you may wonder what is the
sapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-44221400622133276862011-12-26T21:16:00.001+01:002011-12-26T21:19:03.949+01:00Comments in ABAP code 3
Here one very short but good one. It is
included in BW 7.3 in method WRITE_DTP in class CL_RSDD_CUBE_WRITER :-)
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sapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-68445084650539937442011-12-26T20:56:00.003+01:002011-12-26T20:56:55.337+01:00What are SAP Pilot Notes?
We all know SAP Notes; we all use them on daily basis
along our job needs to. We search for an advice, explanation or fix of problems
within SAP
software. I already introduced differences between HotNews; TopNotes here.
Today let’s say something about Pilot Notes. Basically it is very first version
of SAP Note created by SAP development support. Usually it is SAP organization
called IMS (sapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-3141141717681343412011-11-20T21:45:00.001+01:002011-11-20T21:55:09.466+01:00Further checking of broken BEx queries 2
In this post I’m
continuing to post another possibility how to analyze problem of BEx queries.
Apart of first
part of this series which was dedicated to analyzing ABAP report RSR_BAD_CODING
here I introduce sequence which can be convenient while BEx queries
troubleshooting. Basically you usually start in BEx Query Designer (QD). This
is a tool where we can get first indication to possible error.sapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-51751631281719445092011-11-20T19:59:00.001+01:002011-11-20T20:01:58.239+01:00One ABAP book
I recently went to bookstore. I really like bookstores.
Not those on the internet. I mean real book stores where you can hold and feel
books. I like especially bookstore where
I can sit down for a while and read for a while. So as I was enjoying precious
moments in that book store I got astonished with one ABAP book. It was not because of
book as itself. After I looked into the book I realized sapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-56304217149316991692011-11-20T19:30:00.001+01:002011-11-20T19:33:06.409+01:00TA RSRT, RSRT1, RSRT2 differences? (Part 2)
Some time ago I wrote short post about possible differences
between TAs: RSRT, RSRT1, RSRT2. The fact is that they all 3 three are
linked to same ABAP program: SAPMRRI1. Only visible difference is that RSRT1
has additional input field for Query view ~ meaning you can run Query view via this
TA w/o using BEx Query Analyzer. So that’s all what is remarkable at first
sight.
But real differences sapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-49451132605507427472011-11-20T01:13:00.001+01:002011-11-20T01:13:55.844+01:00Shadow system / instance and system switch
If you ever worked for SAP upgrade project
you probably already came across to this term – shadow system or instance and system
switch. What is that? Let me first introduce background of upgrades. Basically
by upgrade we want to get the newest functions that provider offers in its software
product that we are currently using. For sure we want to get this done without
an interruption to existing,sapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-81578856941533799802011-11-15T00:08:00.001+01:002011-11-15T00:20:23.455+01:00SAP GUI installation and its troubleshooting
I had to reinstall my SAP
GUI recently and during this process I encounter few issues. Within this post I
want to share GUI installation
troubleshooting hints. My version was SAP GUI 7.2 Compilation no. 3.
Notice that installation
of GUI requires administration right on user performing installation itself. This
is must w/o it installation will abort.
From disk size point of
view you need at sapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-44799530726292697102011-11-14T22:37:00.001+01:002011-11-14T22:38:57.353+01:00Comments in ABAP code 2
KISS acronym is much known
to programmers. It pushes us to even write better code according policies simpleness
and shortness. Yep it is Keep It Simple and Short. But from computer software principles
point of view it can also have a meaning of Keep It Simple Stupid. So BW
programmers in SAP do think the same as shown in code of class
CL_RSBM_LOG_COMPONENT and its method ADD_MSG:
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The librfc32.dll library
can cause a lot of troubles. Also there are some issues in BW area especially
with conjunction to BEx.
I was blogging about one issue e.g. here.
Some other examples can be with different BEx tools like Web Application Designer
(WAD), Query Designer (QD), etc. where those tools cannot connect to BW
backend.
Here I’m providing
information how to determine current sapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-89931609647225037452011-11-03T00:18:00.000+01:002011-11-03T00:19:12.285+01:00New design of help.sap.com
On last week (end of Oct 2011) I noticed that the very basic site for all the SAP consultants and
users were changed. Yes it is HELP.SAP.COM. Actually
the design of the page got aligned with SAP’s corporate homepage.
Now it is dark blue on gray background as SAP
homepage got this style in May 2011. Many of other SAP sites
were already or are currently being to redesigned as well.
sapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-26677651706342364062011-11-02T23:58:00.000+01:002011-11-03T00:19:02.629+01:00SMP: The message is currently locked - please try again in a few minutes<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Hello all ABAPers or rather to say BSPers J I
just encounter strange error while I invoked my BSP application by URL
comprised of IP address instead of usual hostname. I was forced to use IP address
because we had an issue with nameserver/ DNS and call of server by
its hostname failed. It was even clumsier to me when I realized that my BSP is
failing with following error:
Used
URL:
http://sapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-69472726907518795122011-10-26T22:31:00.001+01:002011-10-26T22:31:59.375+01:00How to find out Plug-in version?
I already discussed in one
of my previous posts topic of BI_CONT,
PI_BASIS, ST-PI, PI-A, R3-PLUG-IN. In that post I introduced concept of SAP
data extraction and delivering it to SAP BW. Basically it is nothing else as
SAP API (SAPI) framework for extraction of data from SAP systems. There is one
exception. It is in case of SAP ByDesign (BBD) system. There is is delivered
differently.
SAPI sapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-48197557983695613912011-10-05T22:26:00.002+01:002011-12-28T21:22:39.125+01:00SAP’s acquisitions over years
Here’s brief list of companies acquired by SAP over the
years:
12/2011
SuccessFactor – provider of human
capital management cloud solutions. Gained portfolio for SAP Business ByDesign.
09/2011
Crossgate – enabler of B2B electronic
data exchange.
09/2011
Right Hemisphere - 3-D Visualization
Software-Maker.
01/2011
Software Security Products and Assets from SECUDE.
12/2010
Disclosure sapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-83094487102360996252011-09-29T21:28:00.003+01:002011-11-14T22:40:02.315+01:00Comments in ABAP code 1
Here I go with short post belonging into FUN category. I just
today found a message in the code passed over by one SAP guy to another one – who was
at that time enjoying his parental leave.
The code can be visible in BW 7.3 - part of BW-IP functionality.
On one day if you will debug some planning sequence I’m confident you come across
it :-)
Other posts on
sapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-18773898045895504612011-09-29T21:14:00.002+01:002011-09-29T21:16:07.354+01:00Deploying RIG or SDN how to’s document to production use
There are couples of great applications available on
SDN provided by SAP’s RIG organization. RIG is abbreviation of SAP NetWeaver
Regional Implementation Group (RIG). It is a part of the SAP Development
organization. The purpose of RIG is to help SAP customers and partners with
implementation of SAP solutions. Usually they are dealing with SAP NetWeaver
components as BW/BO/ABAP/NetWeaver/WAS/sapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-39052054992322529172011-09-28T23:09:00.003+01:002011-09-28T23:09:36.496+01:00BWA Fill Level what it is and where to find it?
Speaking of BWA you might heard already about one of
its parameters. It is called fill level. Usually BWA guy is asking about that
Basis (or even vice versa? J).
You may also hear that this parameter should be kept under certain value.
According its definition taken from note 1517326 - BWA Support
Toolkit it is:
Ratio
of disk size of all indexes to installed RAM of all master blades, sapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-85346047649981442312011-09-28T22:17:00.000+01:002011-09-28T22:17:50.584+01:00Usage of SAP standard objects in custom development
Here’s typical situation on upgrade project: After you got upgraded e.g. development system you doing testing of applications running on SAP system. Of course you have some custom application e.g. at least reports or you extended standard functionalities through user exits, BAdIs or enhancements points. Within that kind of development you using SAP’s standard repository objects like function sapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-50974081308051411312011-09-19T22:43:00.000+01:002012-01-25T21:58:33.183+01:00New transaction codes in BW 7.3
--- last update 25.01.2012 ---
Here’s a list of new transaction codes as they appeared in BW 7.3. I try to add comment or let say purpose of each transactions soon right after I familiarize with them.
TCODE
descr.
RSA19
DW Workbench: accessing Data Flows screen
RSA20
DW Workbench: accessing Planning Sequences screen
RSAP_AUDIT_PREVIEW
Preview for System Measurement in BI
sapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-52064675277215511902011-09-06T22:42:00.000+01:002011-09-06T22:42:20.940+01:00SAP BW Security Notes - composite post
This blog post has an
intention to cover security SAP
notes especially related to BW. I plan to keep this blog updated with the newest
security notes as they being published by SAP.
Basically you can check
those notes by yourself on SAP Service Market place as follows:
service.sap.com/securitynotes
-> SAP Security Notes -> Security Notes Search
Here’s the list:
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Useful information about
BW system is spread into several tables in the system as itself. That’s usual
case. Skilled BW guy knows where to look in order to lookup information that is
needed. It is common to know basic tables with IOs (RSDIOBJ), reports (RSRREPDIR),
cubes (RSDCUBE), DSOs (RSDODSO), process chains (RSPCCHAIN) etc. More technical
BW guy would also know where to find information sapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-13912658430715305262011-08-30T22:33:00.001+01:002011-08-30T22:33:38.154+01:00Funniest SAP notes ever 5
Well;
another post on this topic. To be honest; actually who likes to speak foreign
languages unless you are not forced to do so? :-)
Therefore such behaviour can be observed within customers as well. They just
want to speak in their native languages. On other hand if you would be a service
provider you need to operate effectively as much as possible. Meaning you
cannot do the support in all thesapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-83960108516484556392011-08-30T21:27:00.000+01:002011-09-13T21:07:28.903+01:00Applications on SAP Service Market Place (SMP)
After posting a quick
links to Service Market Place (SMP) a while ago I’m
posting here few useful applications on SMP. More less those application are
nothing else just SAP’s Business Server Pages (BSP) or WebDynpro (WD) based
application helping SAP’s customers in specific areas.
As an example we can take a QuickSizer tool. It is used
by customer and partner to estimate HW sizing of sapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-30481602100097388382011-08-12T22:01:00.000+01:002011-11-29T10:55:29.175+01:00Quick links to SAP Service Market Place (SMP)
Quick links on SMP (SAP
Service Marketplace or OSS)
are very know and very used. I also found them very useful and I believe for
most of us is better to type in directly service.sap.com/notes
(if you want to search for SAP notes) or service.sap.com/swdc
(if you want to download some SAP software); instead just of service.sap.com
which point to SMP portal as general. SAP provides basis links sapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-29412900453434728202011-08-03T21:29:00.000+01:002011-09-19T22:30:14.545+01:00What is SAPMATS?
Have you ever got a link to SAPMATS from SAP support people with documents that they wanted to share with you? If so probably you didn’t notice a ways how it was sent to you. Or you may think that is it a yet another of online backup/transfer service provided by SAP? Actually that’s right. It is an official channel how SAP can send you documents with regards to your actual issues being sapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-68383791342674418392011-08-01T23:02:00.001+01:002011-08-01T23:02:19.863+01:00Netviewer? Not NetWeaver?
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This tool is part of SAP GUI family. To make it short AWUS or NWAWUSVC it is an automatic workstation update service for SAP GUI.
If you are administrator responsible for deploying of SAP GUI to user’s machines you can make the automatic workstation update service available on workstations. This is done by creating a package using NWSapSetupAdmin.exe on the installation server.
If you sapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-47720479438380824192011-07-26T21:57:00.000+01:002011-07-26T21:57:45.628+01:00Parameters of table RSFRONTENDINIT<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Basically this is nothing else just the version of SAP BW. There are (of course) several ways how to find it out.
1. Via menu System. The very basic and the most common way is to have a look to system status information. This can be done while you are logged into B system via SAP GUI. Here go to menu System->Status:
Here choose Component information:
He Here we see that BW is sapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-30071384908326967262011-07-13T22:21:00.003+01:002011-07-13T22:22:06.650+01:00Source system connection tool
If you need to test several source systems in BW it is quite time consuming and boring task. You have to go to TA RSA1 in section of Source systems and manual right click on every source that has to be tested. In order to automate this task and of course to get test done faster SAP provide useful tool. It called Source system connection tool. It is available via transaction RS_LOGSYS_CHECK (ABAPsapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-25192751611848363622011-07-13T22:07:00.000+01:002011-07-13T22:20:16.077+01:00System manipulation error message
Here another stories about odd SAP BW system messages. This time it is error message that you may face after or during system copies. Especially in case system copy was not properly or entirely finished. When you would run e.g. TA RSA1 during system copy it may appear. The message is following:
"system manipulation!!!" SAP BW R3208
Internal control tables have been changed manually in the sapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-89999171451064378802011-07-11T23:11:00.001+01:002011-07-11T23:23:14.440+01:00Customizing of BW frontend version
You can force your user to use BEx 3.x or either 7.x version of BW frontend. This means that while users execute TA RRMX or RRMXP (for workbooks), it will open for them specific BEx Analyzer version.
Notice that possibilities described below are only valid for SAP BW frontend (so called BI Add-On) within the following range: 700X.X.XXXX.525.
If you are running BW 7.x with Support Packagesapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-90900828360436263412011-07-06T22:22:00.007+01:002012-01-14T19:55:20.454+01:00BWA – Business Warehouse Accelerator – composite post
After few other composite notes related to HANA
and BW
7.3 I’m coming with another SAP technology which (even though I write about
it) deserver separate composite post.
BWA formerly known as BIA
is a technology for accelerating access to data in BW. Data from cubes are
being indexed into different – compressed and column based form represented in
form of file. From file data is being cached sapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-13035562427007674782011-07-06T21:36:00.001+01:002011-07-06T21:49:10.929+01:00System change option for SAP BW systems
This topic is quite often being discussed in SDN’s forums. The thing is how to set up BW system client’s setting in order to allow:
1. Successful source system connection creation
2. Customize settings on BW object’s settings in production environment
Basically all the relevant settings must be done in two transactions: SCC4 – client independent related settings and SE06 – sapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-58980631914394769512011-07-05T22:43:00.004+01:002011-07-05T22:49:22.435+01:00Different SAP upgrade tools
As there are differences in SAP technology components along with evolution of SAP software there are also different SAP upgrade tools. Let me share short overview of them within this post.
1. SAPUp: is standard SAP upgrade tools coming in two flavors: a. For ABAP Stack – SAPupb. For JAVA Stack - SAPJup It consists of two programs: a. Upgrade program – performing the upgradeb. sapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-65724788928253848872011-07-04T21:54:00.000+01:002011-07-04T21:54:15.465+01:00How to work with RSADMIN table
RSADMIN table is important table from BW system customizing point of view. It does contain a lot of crucial parameters which are influencing BW system. For list of all parameters of consult to note 912367 - Composite Note: RSADMIN Parameter.
In case you need to either insert/update/delete any parameter of RSADMIN table you can use following ABAP report: SAP_RSADMIN_MAINTAIN
sapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-70811841974322937942011-06-08T20:53:00.002+01:002011-07-05T21:24:54.957+01:00SAP NetWeaver 7.3
After almost 4 years there is a new major release of NetWeaver coming. Actually today we can count NetWeaver is 14 years old. As some components of NetWeaver started to being developed in year 1997. For details on this see this post. Just to do small repeating. It all started with development of SAP Basis, Portal, BW and Mobile Infrastructure. For details on NetWeaver component overview see thissapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-19803431892600194322011-05-19T20:56:00.000+01:002011-05-19T20:56:55.078+01:00Funniest SAP notes ever 4<!--[if gte mso 9]> <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]>sapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-86593486764875956762011-05-14T11:30:00.000+01:002011-05-14T11:30:15.273+01:00SAP GUI: operational system environment variablesFirst kindly notice that variables listed below are valid only for WINDOWS operational system. Some of them are very useful (e.g. to set path to ini file). On other hand some of them are not very known (e.g. RFC related ones). The list is not complete for sure; anyways here it is:
SAPLOGON_INI_FILE – location of initialization file (saplogon.ini) with all the entries with connection strings to sapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-79784974566800852362011-05-10T23:39:00.002+01:002011-05-10T23:39:52.473+01:00SAP End-User Experience Monitoring (EEM)Have you ever wonder about SAP BW report that was accessible from your location but was not accessible for user located on other half of globe? In such cases we need to consider possible network or infrastructure issues which may pop up. How to make sure that reports are available from all users’ location? You cannot sit everywhere to check out it. Having local IT to check it is in case of small sapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-43713989724477117312011-05-10T18:30:00.001+01:002011-05-10T18:31:39.249+01:00Few more BEx messages 3Here series of pots related to BEx messages continues. Some month ago I wrote a post about maximum lines that BEx report can display. Here are warning messages related to this topic:
Result set too large (1019760 cells); data retrieval restricted by configuration (maximum = 500000 cells) Maximum number of rows (65535) exceeded. Result is incomplete. BRAIN 67565535
Anyway conclusion is the same: sapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-49891667762256985522011-05-10T18:05:00.001+01:002011-05-10T18:06:57.174+01:00Funniest SAP notes ever 3Here we go again J with some funny BW SAP Note:365887 - Only for transporting CTBW_METAThis time here a message: “This is only a dummy note”:
Other post from this series:Funniest SAP notes ever 1Funniest SAP notes ever 2
sapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-36152525379014711792011-05-10T17:49:00.000+01:002011-05-10T17:49:06.250+01:00SAP End-to-End Solution Operations<!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]>sapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-43503342717833945222011-05-10T16:44:00.002+01:002011-07-20T20:26:09.228+01:00Something about SAP Service Marketplace (S-user or S*user) ID
For beginners to SAP it not very clear what does it mean if we talking about S-user or S* ID. What is SAP S user ID thus? Is just a unique user ID with which you can access OSS portal page. This is what we also call as SAP Service Marketplace. Just mention briefly OSS or Marketplace is SAP portal for all its customers/partner with all the relevant information about their software, documentationssapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-2493309286473492792011-05-10T12:17:00.000+01:002011-05-10T12:17:26.247+01:00FindGrid – first outcome of semantic projects at SAPSemantics as a “study of meaning” has a huge potential within business application as well. Therefore it is no wonder SAP focuses on that too. Within so called semantic business application the aim is to build application that would provide values leveraging capabilities of semantics. In principle it is about capturing and preserving any specific knowledge. You can imagine this like if you would sapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-74785193038175133012011-04-27T23:46:00.011+01:002011-12-28T21:28:37.010+01:00SAP HANA – composite post
As I started similarly with SAP BW 7.3 I try to collect all relevant information sources about in this case SAP HANA here. BTW: What’s HANA? In short it is in-memory solution from SAP. It stands for High-Performance Analytic Appliance and basically it is appliance (plus its software components) that can absorb large volumes of data (e.g. tera bytes) into its “operational” memory. The reason why sapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-63674485036005438172011-04-12T21:42:00.000+01:002011-04-12T21:42:37.240+01:00Funniest SAP notes ever 2Better name of this post would be “isn’t this fail?”. But I leave this to consider it by reader. See following note: Note 1455155 - Code Scan comments
I’m really not quite sure what is this note about :-). There are 2 versions of this note however I cannot recognize neither any of them anything… Also notice a mix of German and English. I'm just wondering what quality assurance dept. is doing...
sapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-9617900514213479112011-04-12T21:25:00.000+01:002011-04-12T21:25:20.306+01:00SAP FTP serversMight be that you have heard about it. Usually they are referred as sapservX servers. They are FTP server used to transfer files between customers and SAP. This is mainly for purposes of analyzing of customers issues. Here you as customer you can upload files with error description, traces, logs etc. Also SAP support can place some file for you as customer to fix some of your issues. X in sapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-41115472040461995102011-04-06T21:08:00.001+01:002011-04-06T21:09:10.178+01:00SAP GUI overloadedToday I somehow overloaded my SAP GUI :-) I was analyzing some data in SAP BW infocube. I extended no of returned records (in TA LISTCUBE) to some value of millions. And unfortunately cube had some many data… I didn’t realized how many records it attempted to download. Apparently there were many…
The only solution how to get out of this situation was to kill saplogon.exe process.sapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-61696928755532337182011-03-16T23:28:00.000+01:002011-03-16T23:28:01.652+01:00Difference between transactions RS12 / SM12 ?Seems there is no difference; at least as of BW 3.0 and above. According SAP Note 316329 - Master data table locked locks on master data were handled differently in BW versions 2.0 – 2.1C. The difference is that not standard SAP lock mechanism was used but there was BW specific locking mechanism used. This was however removed in version 3.0 and subsequent. Therefore transaction RS12 is still in sapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-37472164926058651842011-03-10T22:29:00.001+01:002011-07-06T21:49:45.059+01:00How to find BWA version?
Well, from SAP BW side not that easy :-) however everything is possible since there is a class CL_RSDDTREX_SERVICE.
For little bit more comprehensive information about SP of BW as itself you can call method COMP_BI_SP_BIA_REV.
sapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-42576953520405942992011-03-01T23:08:00.003+01:002011-03-01T23:13:12.179+01:00Magic of unwantedIt is really surprising and very funny those sudden moments which can be described as “magic of unwanted”. Usually it comes much unexpected. I was same case also for me this time. I was just looking on data load request in Manage table of some cube in TA RSA1. I was scrolling up and down… Yep, for first sight nothing is unusual there…
But if you have a closer look you just realize sapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-1325622511533545182011-02-07T22:50:00.000+01:002011-02-07T22:50:27.441+01:00Receiving SAP Notes updatesOSS functionality of subscription to updates of SAP OSS Notes I already described with this post. You might wonder how such a note ”update” email look like. Emails are sent by SAP Notification Service (notification-service@sap.com) with subject SAP Support Portal Newsletter dd.mm.yyyy. There is much more within this email. You get here following information:
· Spotlight News – the newest sapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-64278659511524779752011-01-26T21:20:00.001+01:002011-01-26T21:20:43.717+01:00When SAP BEx will die?Might be that you got similar questions from your customers as well. SAP is replacing its BEx portfolio with BusinessObjects. What shall we do? Start to look for new BW front end? Try to still to BEx as long as possible? Can we live without support from its producer? In case we should switch to other tool, what tool to pick up?In this post I just try to focus on topic of how long SAP is going to sapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-37127327844198350622011-01-25T23:08:00.000+01:002011-01-25T23:08:00.451+01:00I/O database operationsYou might hear mostly from SAP basis people about I/O database operation. They used to refer to that in case something in SAP system is getting to be processed very slowly.
Basically I/O operation of any computer system or part of computer system refers to communication between two parts of system. E.g. Part A of the system passes information to part B of the system. B then return processed sapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-62359495528383850972011-01-20T00:07:00.001+01:002011-01-20T00:09:08.188+01:00How to clear BW/(SAP AS) cachesThere are several places across BW tools from where clearing of different types of cache can be done.
BEx Web Application Designer metadata cache: stores metadata information about objects related to web templates. You can also delete the cache in which metadata information belonging to current opened template within the session to BW backend. To delete this cache choose insapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-44982546806598573602011-01-01T19:51:00.000+01:002011-01-01T19:51:32.172+01:00BW Accelerator Consulting Services by SAP AGI have write few posts about SAP services provided by SAP Active Global Support (AGS) like BW Go live Optimization session and moreover also about how to prepare your BW systems for those sessions. In current post I focus on services provided by SAP AG for SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator (BWA). Notice that BWA was renamed from Business Intelligence Accelerator (BIA) in January 2009.
There are 2 mainsapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-27017784214072697762011-01-01T19:39:00.000+01:002011-01-01T19:39:00.700+01:00Preparation for SAP Remote Services/Sessions for BWThere are certain SAP services provided by SAP Active Global Support (AGS) like BW Go live Optimization session which might help customers to run their BW solution better. You as an customer can request those session via raising customer message on OSS in area: Remote Service Request of component: SV-BO-REQ and type query: Request for the Delivery of a Remote Service (for details see Note 560499 sapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-64438847027377976152011-01-01T18:45:00.000+01:002011-01-01T18:45:21.766+01:00What year 2010 gave to SDN?I started last year (2009) with brief summarization of initiatives that were newly introduced on SDN. This time let me continue and take a look on new stuff that year 2010 brought on the SDN field. Following here few new SDN initiatives:
Idea Place: ideas.sap.com is an place where SCN community members can put ideas in any area of an relation to SAP products, services etc.
SAPsapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-45249175993970780032011-01-01T12:25:00.000+01:002011-01-01T12:25:46.335+01:00Possibilities of BEx Queries documentingA lot of people are struggling with BEx queries in lot of areas. For example when you need to know how particular key figure is calculated. This can be very painful even more in case you have several nested structures where one key figure is comprised from several others and those are again calculated, restricted etc over and over again.However there are some possibilities how to see query in sapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-5744851427724093292010-12-31T17:02:00.004+01:002011-06-11T13:26:17.937+01:00BW 7.x: How to design start/end/expert routine within transformations?There are several points that you need to recon while coding start, end or expert routines.
Basically you need to be aware which data are you processing either it is source_package in case of start routine; result_package in case of end routine or even both tables in case of expert routine. Basically you do LOOP ABAP statement over one of those internal tables and you modify it or add new rows.sapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-24895534539134717032010-12-31T16:34:00.000+01:002010-12-31T16:34:45.241+01:00Limitations of DTP’s filterRecently I encounter interesting behavior regarding amount of entries that DTP’s filter is able to populate. I created ABAP routine to fill up entries in filter. Since my routine produced quite big portion of data; I was curious how much entries is system capable to process.
For first run my routine produced over 1mil records. However data load in general was not successful. It was set to red sapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-48315606232256028632010-11-30T23:56:00.001+01:002010-11-30T23:58:02.652+01:00SAP BW 7.3 is almost hereWell, at least it is here according documentation available on help.sap.com.
As it was announced during SAP TEchEd 2010 in Berlin NetWeaver 7.3 and along with that BW 7.3 is coming. Two weeks ago I noticed that BW 7.3 documentation appeared on hep.sap.com as well.
SDN BW 7.3 page is still quite about general availability but NW 7.3 it should be released soon I believe.sapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-90982497565962542262010-11-05T16:43:00.001+01:002010-11-08T08:38:35.312+01:00Overview of BW 3.x to 7.x migration possibilities per BW objectsI was curious how migration of BW features and objects from version 3.x to 7.x is supported by SAP functionalities. Especially what are the tools available (if there are any) and basically what does it takes to perform such an upgrade? I went through a lot of documents available on SDN and here’s the short summary of possibilities that we have in case of migrating particular BW objects within sapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-24107503871020791272010-11-04T21:12:00.004+01:002010-11-04T21:21:16.224+01:00How to look for DSO’s tables?There is a nice and useful functionality available in TA RSA1 to access data in DSO across its all 3 tables (in case of normal DSO): New, Active and Change Log. If you navigate into InfoProviders section in Modeling area and you choose right mouse click on particular DSO you select Manage menu. There is a tab strip called Content.
Here you can specify particular data you are interested in:
Newsapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-66422781931587465302010-11-04T20:21:00.000+01:002010-11-04T20:21:13.722+01:00Prerequisites for BW 7.3BW 7.3 is almost here, should be released this month. To see all of its new features read this post. Therefore customers are asking how about to upgrade to this version. Unfortunately there are some limitations.
First of all platform version matter: You cannot upgrade to version 7.3 from version below 7.x. Sequence is to first upgrade to 7.x and afterwards you can go for 7.3. No 7.3 upgrade forsapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-32681327806589645052010-11-04T18:23:00.001+01:002010-11-04T18:25:39.282+01:00SAP Business Technology FactoryWithin some BW SAP Notes (e.g. 1125108) I noticed a term SAP Business Technology Factory. Mostly it was mentioned in case of advanced services provided by SAP in following areas:
BI Authorization Migration Service, consists from:
Migration planning (system analysis, concept adjustment, project planning)·
Migration of the old BW reporting authorizations to the new BW 7.0 analysis sapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-24306207862280096692010-10-21T20:09:00.002+01:002010-10-21T20:10:35.189+01:00miniSAP homepageI wrote already several blog posts related to miniSAP or in other words test version of SAP software. Just to mention some of them:
· miniSAP where to download it?· SAP NetWeaver 2004s ABAP miniSAP – installation, part 1· SAP NetWeaver 2004s ABAP miniSAP – installation, part 2 BW custumization
Some other terms used to refer to miniSAP are Sneak Preview, Test Drive, sapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-3408799580650754902010-10-21T19:24:00.000+01:002010-10-21T19:24:28.105+01:00Maximum number of sessions in SAP GUIUser are from time to time wondering about how many simultaneous sessions in SAP GUI they can have. It was even surprising to me when I got this question when I did my SAP BW certification :-). There is also funny point that for some people to be efficient while working is enough to have 2-3 sessions as maximum. On other hand there are people who need at least 7-8 session to get some job to be sapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-84833527883220498242010-10-17T21:13:00.001+01:002010-10-20T09:20:30.912+01:00A legacy of SAP TEchEd 2010 – Berlin
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· Scalable data models with built-in Semantic Partitioned Object (SPO)· Optimized load performance for DataStore Objects and Master Data· Enhanced built-in analytical capabilities for SAP NetWeaver BWsapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-29442881105120784202010-09-30T20:47:00.024+01:002012-01-25T22:17:01.012+01:00Collection of materials related to SAP BW 7.3
My plan is regularly adding materials which are related to new version of BW: 7.3 at this blog post. This goes along my blog related to BW history posted here.
Documentation:
help.sap.com 1
help.sap.com 2
Documents:
What’s new with SAP NetWeaver BW 7.30 and BW Accelerator 7.20
SAP NW BW 7.3 Overview & Roadmap SAP BW Product Management April 2011
What’s new with SAP NetWeaver BW 7.3 Product sapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-14960087635242267762010-09-30T20:31:00.000+01:002010-09-30T20:31:46.765+01:00Finally there is a list of RSADMIN table parametersHave you ever wonder why there is no some collective SAP Note describing all the parameters available in system for RSADMIN table? For me it would be logical to have such a note. In some of SDN forum’s it is mentioned that was such a note but over the years it became internal and therefore not accessible for SAP’s customers and event no for partners. If you imagine that according google there aresapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-41122072885264687112010-08-25T23:27:00.000+01:002010-08-25T23:27:20.782+01:00How to properly design process chainsThere are sometimes doubts regarding how to set up processes within the process chains. Process chain is structural and logical grouping of processes , jobs or steps involved within loading of data into BW. Proper design of chain has effects on its performance and consequently on performance of whole BW system. Therefore kind of best practice I can recommend following sequence for designing sapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-77449542680689400032010-08-24T23:03:00.000+01:002010-08-24T23:03:57.942+01:00Grey rating for Earlywatch Alert reportSometimes it is common situation that you receive the latest Earlywatch Alert (EWA) report from SAP and some of checks included have grey ratings. Usually there are suppose to be just three types of ratings:
Green – no major problems with systems observed, hurray :-)Yellow – improvements to the system were detectedRed – severe problems were detected, you should take corrective actions sapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-18438074293341837102010-08-09T22:26:00.000+01:002010-08-09T22:26:13.097+01:00Where to see code for Business Content SAP exit variable?SAP exit variable are type of BEx variables processed during BEx Query runtime by replacement path predefined in SAP exit. SAP exit is like customer exit it is just delivered by standard SAP BW Business Content. Comparison to customer exit is right since there is also ABAP code which is in particular performing the replacement of variable value.
This might seems to be tricky for first look: sapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-69139533586186537482010-08-01T20:29:00.001+01:002010-08-02T08:19:19.268+01:00Difference between DB and BW statisticsTerms like database (DB) and BW statistics are often referred in SAP documentation, Notes or even in SDN forums. We always hear that it is important to maintain statistics in order to achieve good performance of SAP systems. Especially in BW area performance topic is very important. Here it is often discussed that we must keep the DB statistics all the time for SAP BW. Then we hear that BW sapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-67032882313834910072010-07-11T14:42:00.000+01:002010-07-11T14:42:18.238+01:00CCMSBISUITE Reporting SuiteThere is a new tool for BW performance monitoring available as of BI_CONT 703 Support Package 8 for NetWeaver 7.0 or with SAP_BW Support Package 4 for NetWeaver 7.10.
Source of data is Central Performance History (CPH) which is a part of SAP’s CCMS. Same tool is includes in Solution Manager’s under node "IT Performance Reports". Directly in BW system you can access it via transaction CCMSBISUITEsapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-75607703565005774172010-06-22T23:13:00.000+01:002010-06-22T23:13:10.018+01:00Reserved ABAP keywordsSometime it is little bit tricky to find out a name for new variable in ABAP until you do not break into a set of reserved ABAP keyword. Basically such a set of reserved words are all the ABAP statements key words, logical operators, data types, predefined functions, etc. According official SAP documentation (see TA ABAPDOCU -> ABAP - By Theme -> ABAP syntax -> ABAP Statements ->ABAP Words) usagesapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-12804088305846746572010-06-18T22:55:00.002+01:002010-06-18T22:55:51.983+01:00Security aspects of TA SE16You might be probably all aware about security breaches within TA SE11 - Data Browser. I also mentioned this TA in my previous post regarding Secure programming in ABAP. Trick here is much known between SAP people. I’m not going to repeat it but by few key strokes into transaction code field of SAP GUI you can seriously touch the data inside any SAP table and therefore caused data inconsistency sapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-61985603812828360712010-06-18T22:35:00.005+01:002010-06-18T22:43:00.480+01:00Layered Scalable Architecture (LSA) of SAPIs concept that can be used for modeling of Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW). Concept as itself is dividing and grouping your EDW objects into dedicated horizontal layers. Those layers represent services for particular tasks (Data acquisition, Consolidation, Propagation, Reporting, etc.) Such a concept tends from raw, granular unconsolidated data to business specific information and intelligence. sapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-42644461648144606852010-05-08T15:34:00.000+01:002010-05-08T15:34:27.394+01:00Problem with SAP NetWeaver? Use SAP’s PAG !Recently I found very nice collection of useful tips how to solve particular problems within SAP software. It is provided directly by SAP and it is called Problem Analysis Guide (PAG). Basically it is a list of Problem Analysis scenarios (PAS). This includes all the activities and sequence’s of activities which needs to be performed in order to solve particular problem related to SAP NetWeaver sapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-56489937254259516262010-05-08T15:20:00.001+01:002010-05-08T15:21:19.605+01:00What's new in SAP NW BW 7.0 across different EhP ?Here comes another blog post as addition to previous one related to new functionalities of SAP NW BW per different SPS. As obvious first blog post was related to changes across Support Package Stack (SPS) and this one is related to EhP) for SAP NetWeaver (NW).kaho Enhancement Packahes garding SAP BW here.new functionalities delivered by EhPs. So far (May 2010) there are two Enhancement Packages (sapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-63146836174068567742010-05-04T13:50:00.000+01:002010-05-04T13:50:34.891+01:00SAP Business User softwareSAP Business User is a term used by SAP as its 4th main product group along existing ones: NetWeaver, Business Suite, Business ByDesign. It was introduced around year 2007 as next generation set of applications gained by BOBJ acquisition. It refers to category software which covers needs of specific organization users out of ERP systems.
It has following categories:
1. EPM - Enterprise sapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-81966335007284349512010-04-28T15:53:00.001+01:002010-05-06T11:48:42.922+01:00SAP Solution Manager 4.0 vs. 7.0Similarly like other SAP NetWever components (BW, PI, MDM) SAP Solution Manager (SMG) was re-versioned as well. This took place in May 2008 and SMG version changed its version from 4.0 to 7.0. By this it has same release number and it is aligned with SAP's decision to streamline its product offerings. So between versions 4.0 and 7.0 there is no change in its functionality, release schedule, sapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-91488032574277302972010-04-27T15:47:00.001+01:002010-05-04T15:57:28.076+01:00SAP PI vs. XIAre you interesting what’s a difference between SAP Process Integration (PI) and SAP Exchange Infrastructure (XI)?
Basically there is no real difference. It is just about marketing name of same products. SAP PI or XI is SAP NetWeaver based technology for Enterprise Application Integration (EAI). EAI software enables different systems to communicate each other. This cover systems within same sapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-56545387203790250742010-04-27T13:37:00.001+01:002010-04-27T13:38:05.508+01:00Run web browser in you session in SAP systemFor those of you who would not believe I can clearly say yes it is possible to run web browser in SAP GUI while you are in session in system. Thanks to SAP standard ABAP report called SAPHTML_R3HTTP_DEMO.
You can run it in TA SE38:
After that you get a screen with input field where you can put any URL. Then you will get your page :-)
sapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-58536616738782254292010-04-27T11:01:00.002+01:002011-11-08T23:25:03.958+01:00SAP NetWeaver Business Client - where to download it?
In addition to my older post related to SAP NetWeaver Business Client (NWBC)
I'd like to provide a download link where this software can be downloaded.
Go to OSS and navigate to Software Download Center @ service.sap.com/swdc
-> Download -> Installations and Upgrades -> Installations and Upgrades - Entry by Application Group -> SAP Frontend Components -> NETWEAVER BUSINESS CLIENT -> sapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-15460569001514013062010-04-26T13:12:00.000+01:002010-04-26T13:12:42.058+01:00What's new in NetWeaver BI 7.0 across different SPBI version 7.0 came first in July 2005 as Ramp-Up Start (Support Package Stack 04) there is a list of changes per Support Package:Support Package Stack 04:<!--[if !supportLists]-->· <!--[endif]-->Changed terminology<!--[if !supportLists]-->· <!--[endif]-->The Data Warehousing Workbench replaces the Administrator Workbench.<!--[if !supportLists]-->· <!--[endif]-->The sapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-42161415942056213992010-04-17T22:35:00.008+01:002010-04-18T12:35:54.036+01:00Ports used by SAP Application serversSAP NetWeaver Application Server ABAP:
Service Range Default
Dispatcher 32NN 3200
sapdpNN
Gateway 33NN 3300
sapgwNN
Gateway 48NN 4800
sapgwNNs
ICM HTTP 80NN 8000
ICM HTTPS 443NN Not activated by def.
ICM SMTP 25 Not activated by def.sapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-8674849726298131092010-04-17T19:26:00.093+01:002011-11-02T22:46:59.880+01:00SAP’s web sites
Here list of SAP's web servers. I needed to list those servers somewhere and therefore I created this blog post. I need it for some testing purposes :-)
http://admin.sdn.sap.com/
Admin interface to SDN
http://sdn.sap.com/
SDN = SAP Developer Network
http://sdnweb.sdn.sap.com/
part of SDN used e.g. for surveys
http://scn.sap.com/
SCN = SAP Comunity sapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-16453925873186317022010-04-17T17:34:00.000+01:002010-04-17T17:34:46.048+01:00Strange question marks appeared in SAP user interface?Have you ever seen in SAP transaction’s strange menu items looking like "????????". It can be whole menu item for example or it juts partly contains such strange question marks. Might be that you also experienced this freshly after system upgrade. Even language can be different or more likely mixed. So at first sight it looks like really strange. Actually a reason is from SAP basis point of view sapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-47992434231486803422010-03-29T19:15:00.000+01:002010-03-29T19:15:22.314+01:00If 1 equals 2, what’s the purpose?While debugging standard SAP ABAP code you might find for first look very strange code like following:
If 1 EQ 2.
MESSAGE W001(z100).
* plus do something else
EndIf.
Confusing? Of course! Based on the math this statement cannot be ever true. Then why do we need such an IF statement?
Actually there are certain situations when we need it. Just to name few of them. We need to make visible some sapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-15761581581990576742010-02-24T09:45:00.004+01:002010-11-04T18:40:00.434+01:00SAP BW 7.2 is replaced by SAP BW 7.3Not even could get on the market and SAP BW 7.20 was discontinued and will be replaced by SAP BW 7.3. It was freshly announced (probably starting of calendar week 09 of 2010) that quoting: “7.20 Release will be consolidated into the SAP NetWeaver BW Release 7.30”. This is official statement form SAP as published on OSS. SAP is saying that they decided because of feedback from customers sapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3461391105230845660.post-41330002620613059192010-02-13T16:06:00.002+01:002010-03-06T13:35:18.268+01:00New oil to SAP engine?First quarter of calendar year 2010 and especially beginning of February will have significant impact on SAP’s future as a company. On Feb. the 7th SAP announced that is coming back to co-CEO structure and new co-CEOs are Bill McDermott and Jim Hagemann Snabe. Effective immediately Léo Apotheker stepped down as sole CEO due to discontinuing of his contract. Moreover Vishal Sikka (Chief Technologysapperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11523191743837925891noreply@blogger.com1