Free SAP BTP - Free ABAP System instance

[Rodrigo-Santiago]

This article will show how you can create a Free ABAP environment.

After all, run the SFlight loading ABAP program to load data into the Hana database tables.

To accomplish all these and you can follow without fear, it will have a lot of print screens, so, long article.

At your Global account level, select the Boosters section.

In the filter, search for ABAP:

Calm down!! 🧘,  I know you want to click on "Prepare an Account for ABAP Development (Free-tier)" but, there is a requirement for SAP BTP ABAP Environment,  "Landscape Portal". 

We need to create it first, selecting the "Landscape Portal for SAP BTP ABAP Environment (Free-Tier)".

We will hit 2 or 3 walls, sending us back a few steps, but I will help with screens shots! 

Click on the tile, it will open a section showing the description, components, resources, bla bla bla... Press the start

 

In the coming screen, the booster will check settings a permission, it should show up like below:

If it is not like mine (all green and done), follow the instructions on how to fix the authorizations and entitlements and come back here.

Clicking NEXT should show a screen like this one. 

NOTE: If you want to create it manually without using the Booster, notice this trick.... the landscape portal not shows up in the list of entitlements!! in order to show up in the list, you need to edit the entitlements and add it.

After the deployment finishes, now it is time to create ABAP instance. Go to Global account and select boosters, then filter by ABAP. Click on tile "Prepare an Account for ABAP Development (Free-Tier)"

After you read all info (Overview, Components,Additional), click on start. If there are some Authorization or Entitlements missing, fix them first. ( the entitlement error can be fixed adding it like shown up in the manual creation of Landscape portal)

In the next screen, we already created the Subaccount, so, don't need to create new one.

select proper Subaccount and space. Next screen is auto explanatory.

Choose the ABAP system id and review your choices.

The creation will take a few hours, it's normal / common. Stay calm 🧘 and after it finishes, you will receive an email like this one.

Congratulations!! 🎊 Now you have your personal ABAP Cloud Environment (the best of it, it's FREEEEEEEEE)

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[TobiasHaesler]

There is one drawback: You have to restart the ABAP environment daily from the Landscape Portal, which can take 20-30 minutes depending on your schedule. You have to keep that in mind.

Thanks for the article, very detailed 👍