microservices! the promise of scalability, independence, and a developer's dream. But what happens when that dream turns into a nightmare? That's exactly what happened to us a year and a half ago. As our product grew, so did our repositories, leading...
We show how to get the free SAP product for developers and administrators - “Abap Platform Trial” - running on Podman: for an Ubuntu Server VM, and for an amd64 (a.k.a. “Intel”) MacBook. For the MacBook case we also show some aspects of Podman Deskto...
In the complex landscape of software development, the Open Component Model (OCM) offers a practical and efficient solution for the delivery of software artifacts. As an open standard, OCM provides a reliable method for the creation and handling of so...
We as Basis administrators are often tasked with setting up new SAPRouter during the migration of SAP workloads from on-premise to the cloud. Recently I too was involved in such an activity and found the steps a bit all over the place but finally man...
This is my first ever blog. Hence would like to introduce. This is Rajesh Azmeera with 14 years of experience in IT industry who have carried out end to end life cycles. Had Strong experience on infrascture (on premise and cloud), applications a...
Introduction: Efficiently managing and extracting output from SAP systems is essential for maintaining smooth business operations. One common task is increasing the number of pages to display the entire output in the spool. In this guide, we'll wal...
Hi All, Recently we were changing some external connections from user/pass logon to SNC logon without password and we had a problem which were really difficult to find out. So for future reference if anyone face the same problem this post might be h...
Introduction In this blog, we will provide steps to configure Highly available SAP Content Server 7.53 with MaxDB database version 7.9 on SUSE Linux in Microsoft Azure Cloud using Azure NetApp Files (ANF) as storage platform for database. It uses S...
Intro We show how to use SAP SNC Encryption and SSO on a Windows 11 client machine running SAPGUI for Windows 8.00 PL1 64-bit version, using both the old-school PSE-Method as well as using SAP Secure Login Client ("SLC-Method"). Although all the goa...
Introduction In today’s data-driven world, collecting and analyzing data has become crucial for businesses to make informed decisions. Prometheus is a popular open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit that is widely used to monitor infrastructure...
Intro We show how to set up SAP SNC Encryption (both Encryption-Only and SSO), on the two main kinds of Apple MacBook OS architecture, using X.509 certificates handled either by the PSE-Method (using SAP PSEs “Personal Security Environments”) or by t...
Intro Encryption and SSO (Single Sign-On) for SAPGUI logins from a Linux client machine can be set up using X.509 certificates. [Currently, SAP does not provide a Linux version of their SAP Secure Login Client (which is a software utility that usual...
The purpose of this document is to cover the detailed procedure around setting up and executing the migration of large sized database with considerably higher number of application servers using SAP Distribution Monitor. The Source system run on an O...
DevOps for SAP is having a moment. More and more elite organizations and prominent developers are embracing the benefits that come from applying modern development principles to ABAP development. The journey is not easy, but it is worthwhile, and tak...
I frequently come across SAP developers that are eager to innovate but face technology hurdles that limit them. This is particularly frustrating since technology should serve as an engine for growth. This is not just my opinion; it has been proven by...
DevOps for SAP Enterprises across the globe are looking at DevOps to make the process of software development easier and more helpful in their favour, hence they invented this new player SAP. DevOps for SAP is a game changer. It combines a wide rang...
Configure SAP-SIC (SAP Integration Component) for Vertex As a SAP BASIS Consultant, sometimes we need to Manage and Maintain a Software called Vertex. There is multiple aspect of this software and one of that is Administration of Vertex Application....
Vertex Tax Solution - Installation: - As a SAP BASIS Consultant, sometimes we need to Manage and Maintain a Software called Vertex. There is multiple aspect of this software and one of that is Administration of Vertex Application. So I thought to sha...
Intro Wireshark is a popular and free open-source toolset for analysing network traffic: https://wireshark.org Wireshark can also be used to analyse SAP-specific network traffic - such as for example SAPGUI traffic and RFC traffic - using a most ex...
Overview Your technical debt is out of control, and it takes you weeks to move transports to production. You use sandbox systems, but they take a lot of time and money to provision, only to have the data quickly become stale. Your project-base...
As SAP professionals, we are at the heart of our organizations. Often, we’re providing the business processes and back-ends for new user-facing experiences. To deliver change at the speed of business, we need to be able to synchronize our SAP change ...
1. So, what exactly is Docker? Is it different than a container? If you've heard of containers, chances are it's a Docker container. Docker is a company that offers an open-source platform that allows you to package (i.e., containerize) applications ...
Intro: R3trans is the SAP transport tool is used to transport data between SAP Systems and in the migration use case. R3trans is usually called from other programs (for example tp) and in turn, tp is also usually called from Application Layer (transa...
By Ross Nolan, SAP Specialist, Basis Technologies When you are adopting agile and DevOps methodologies in SAP development, part of the process is shifting left. That means giving the developers more ownership of code quality, by integrating quali...
I am sure many of you might have seen the excellent blog posts from 10xcoding from Nuve Commerce on DevOps for SAP ERP, where he outlined how they are using CI/CD pipelines with extraordinary results. If not, take a look at this blog post here, for e...
Running an Operations Control Center (OCC) today, i.e. the management of hybrid system and solution landscapes, includes intelligent technology and processes. As previously outlined, the Operations Control Center addresses IT usecases and services su...
Introduction The Business Application Log (BAL) is a tool widely used by many applications. It offers nice functionality for enhancements and adaptation. For the PMMO application we made extensive use of these capabilities. Transaction SLG1 This is ...
As a basis admin, you have to keep a lot of SAP notes in mind, and periodically reading them is a must. So I set up a QuickSearch in Chrome for SAP notes. Result: I can now type in the URL bar sapnote 2456432 and it will redirect me to https://lau...
Introduction: In this blog, we will provide the detailed steps to reset secure storage password for MaxDB database Studio (master password for Database Studio) Scenario: 1. User is unable to login to MaxDB database studio due to an incorrect secure s...
$ ./create_vm_instance.sh vm-1217 $ docker-compose up The first time I installed SAP, I failed at it. I had been trying for about three months before giving up. It seemed impossible. A few years later, a more tenacious team member got as far as sta...
If you like this post, you might enjoy the follow up. IaC enables us to deploy new systems with only two lines of code. https://blogs.sap.com/2021/12/17/infrastructure-as-code-devops-and-the-future-of-enterprise/ We've been applying DevOps for SAP...
For those customers who have not activated SAP Cloud ALM tenant, following instruction might be helpful for acquiring the Cloud product. SAP Cloud ALM is our application lifecycle management offering for cloud-centric customers. It provides extensiv...
The challenge: An SAP system , ECC 6.0 SPS11 running on Windows Server 2003 (!) with SQL 2005 The goal: Get the system running on Windows 2012 R2 with SQL 2012 The time frame: One weekend The path... Since there is no simple known way to perform such...
Introduction Note: This is mainly applicable for Native HANA scenarios with XSA. After installing SAP HANA 2.x or upgrading from HANA 1.x to 2.x especially after the introduction of XS Advanced, SAP HANA generates multiple URLs for different appli...
In my 20-year span of SAP Technology BASIS, DBA, OS -seen it all- career, nothing could be as interesting as the topic of Infrastructure architecting and sizing. To the DBA it is the clichéd - 'Science as well as an Art'. To the CIO - it’s that cost,...
Abstract In today’s Cloud Computing world “Automation” is the buzz word. Cloud Automation refers to methodology, tools and software solutions that automate the provisioning, installation, configuration and management of the cloud resources & servic...
INTRODUCCION Cuando estamos realizando una copia homogénea de una sistema SAP con SWPM, en la fase de creación de la base de datos nuestro proceso se detiene presentando el siguiente mensaje de error. a través de de este procedimiento quiero mostrar...
In my previous blog Step towards CI and CD Set up in S/4HANA System; I talked about setting up SAP Predelivered pipeline along with observations /issues faced during the CI and CD set up . In this Blog post I will talking about Hybrid scenario where ...
Introduction This procedure shows how to deactivate e-mails from transactions SOST. Pré-requisites: SAP Basis rights Implementation: Logon to transaction SCOT Double click on SMTP behind Business Communication Administration -> Settings -> ...
In my previous blog posts, I covered gCTS Set up for Source and Target System and we laid the stepping stones for our CI and CD Set up. In this blog post I will be covering our journey while trying out CI and CD Set Up as a PoC for customer using SA...
In this blog post I'd like to describe outgoing email configuration for SAP system. It's quite typical configuration, however normally it requires you to be familiar with technical email configuration and/or involve your email administrator. I'd like...
1. Motivation 1.1. Where do we come from? 1.2. What do we want to solve here? 1.3. Take aways 2. Boundary conditions 2.1. Prerequisites 2.2. What we want 2.3. What we have 3. Mile high setup 4. Branches, tags and other dile...
In my previous blog I have covered that the SAP cloud products are getting popular and companies moving towards DevOps culture. SAP Solution Manager 7.2 is a tool that meets best practice of Agile which would help to get started with practices for De...
This blog post is part 2 of a 2 part series on our journey with SAP ERP DevOps. Part 1 focuses on the functional aspect of our process, and part 2 focuses on the technical challenges. Disclaimer: SAP does not yet support running ERP or S/4 on contai...
Software development teams outside of the SAP ecosystem are years ahead in leveraging DevOps ideas, automated testing/continuous integration, and modern version control tools (i.e., GitHub) to realize tremendous productivity and quality gains. Contai...
はじめに 今回のブログポストは、以下3回シリーズのPart 3となります。 Part 1: 概要とデザインアプローチ (1) Part 2: デザインアプローチ (2) Part 3: 移行アプローチ 前回はデザインアプローチとしてサイジング要素の後半以降を記載しましたが、今回は移行アプローチについて記載したいと思います。 移行アプローチ Hyperscalerに移行するためのSAP標準アプローチについて、4つのシナリオに沿って解説いたします。 4つのシナリオ ...
Azure DevOps is a powerful tool to organize development tasks of an any project. In addition, there is the pipeline tool available, which allows you to build continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines. CI/CD Pipelines help you to automa...
はじめに 今回のブログポストは、以下3回シリーズのPart 2となります。 Part 1: 概要とデザインアプローチ (1) Part 2: デザインアプローチ (2) Part 3: 移行アプローチ 前回はSAPにおけるIaaSとしてのHyperscalerの概要と、デザインアプローチにおけるサイジングの要素の前半としてメモリ、CPUについて記載させていただきましたが、今回はサイジング要素の後半から記載いたします。 デザインアプローチ (2) 実際にどのVMインスタン...
Since when SAP released its various products staring from R/3 to ERP to intelligent ERP generation i.e. S/4HANA till date, has received various updates in all the spaces be it ABAP, Functional and so on. Similarly, SAP Basis Admin space has also see...
はじめに Hyperscalerと一括りにしてしまうとよく言えば多彩、悪く言えば雑多な内容となってしまいますので、このブログポストでは主に、既存のオンプレミス環境からIaaSとしてHyperscalerへ載せ替える予定のお客様を対象に、移行を検討する際の考慮点について、その考え方や考慮すべきポイントにフォーカスして、インフラ寄りのテクニカルな観点で記載しております。新規構築時にIaaSとしてHyperscalerを採用される予定のお客様も一部分はご参考にして頂ける内容となっております。普段より...
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