Imagine that you’re working configuring a certain SAP module, touching several tables and configuration spots. Sometimes it might happen that someone else is maintaining the same table that you need access. This standard Function Module could be useful in these cases, since you might not know an alternative way to contact the user locking the [...]
Gingle is an SDN community user which posted a series of very useful weblog posts. As soon as you start reading the posts, you can see that some of the challenges described by Gingle are familiar. Whoever has tried the endeavor of installing a Mini-SAP, installing a Netweaver Developer Workplace or simply installing a SAP [...]
It gives me great pleasure to announce that today I’m releasing version 2.0 of the SAPLAB.org blog. Since the beginning of this project, roughly and more seriously about 2 years ago, I tried as much as possible to update the blog with useful and practical information around several SAP subjects. While doing this, I always [...]
When you just need to look on a specific transaction and you don’t have permission? Wait no more, this is a good and quick work-arround: – Go to transaction SE37, display the function module RS_TRANSACTION_TEST and place a break-point after instruction ( CALL ‘AUTH_CHECK_TCODE’ ID ‘TCODE’ FIELD objectname. ). – Go to transaction SE93, fill [...]
This is the first part of a set of 2 posts that I’ll submit in the following days, covering the Support Package Stack Upgrade process. Directly or indirectly, many of you have already been in projects were you’ve heard this term. Weather you seek deep technical knowledge or just an overview of the process, understanding [...]
The Product Availability Matrix bundles technical and release planning information on SAP components for quick reference. You will find information on the availability of SAP component releases (product versions), maintenance end dates and upgrade paths, as well as technical release information (DB-platforms, JSE-platforms, operating systems etc.). A SAP component release is structured into instances. An [...]
Recently one of my blog readers asked me about installing the Netweaver Developer Studio using an alternative version of MaxDB. This is something I haven’t thought about much, since the installations that I’ve done were local installations, for my own use, and normally from scratch. They served the only purpose to allow myself to have [...]
If you find yourself working on client proposals or having to prepare an “on-the-fly” response for a client, this is a useful tool for you. Based on my experience, and due to the fact that still many customers are upgrading their systems to the latest ERP 6 (or ECC 6.0) or even considering the newest Business Suite 7 [...]
In case you successfully installed your local SAP Portal, you’ll have to fine tune it by performing some additional steps. One of those steps is applying a license key, based on your local computer hardware key. Otherwise, your installation will only work for about 90 days or so. So, follow the steps shown below to be able to achieve this. [...]
I ran into a curious post by Sergio Ferrari which allows us to calculate how many lines of ABAP code we have in our systems. More than a curiosity, this simple tool can help us determine if our system is too overloaded with custom code or not. The author excluded ABAP generated by special frameworks, [...]
When you work with SAP Enterprise Portal, sometimes it’s useful to use the System Trace tool, enabled by the ERP system. Typically, Portal applications use backend function modules (or BAPIs) for which they make constant execution calls via RFC (Remote Function Call). So, if you’re facing a problem with a Portal application, independent if it [...]
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