SAP Notes. Manual steps. A rant.

[matt]

Wouldn't it be a staggeringly good, intelligent idea when there are manual steps in a note, like creating a table, or text elements or such like, for them to be formatted in the note in such a way, that we could just use cut and paste to create them? Would that be so hard? Or why not just have a transport we could download an import into our systems? Why are there manual steps anyway?

Only another five tables to go....

[Former Member]

Especially since when these notes are included in support packs and the support packs are applied, these "manual" steps are carried out.

Rob

[Former Member]

There are a lot of little annoyances which have been known by SAP admins for years and that could have been corrected for years.

It is very good to publish them publicly here because it gives a chance for SAP to remember about them and to correct them.

Example : RZ10

A lot of data entry controls for system parameters are completely outdated and a lot are even completely wrong.

It seems that the controls have been hard coded 15 years ago and so a lot of "new" (younger than 10 years) parameters are even not known from RZ10 and reported as an error. Yes, the workaround is easy but it looks so much unprofessional...

I always laugh when I teach to newbie SAP admins how to know the differences between the real and the wrong error messages from RZ10.

If you also enter a very long parameter value on 2 lines, it is very often truncated because RZ10 only keeps the first line.

And even funnier when the truncated parameter is rspo/host_spool/print the SAP ECC6 refuses to start...

Regards,

Olivier

[Former Member]

> A lot of data entry controls for system parameters are completely outdated and a lot are even completely wrong.

> It seems that the controls have been hard coded 15 years ago and so a lot of "new" (younger than 10 years) parameters are even not known from RZ10 and reported as an error. Yes, the workaround is easy but it looks so much unprofessional...

Are you referring to the "internal parameter" trick; the one customers are not meant to know about?

[markus_doehr2]

> It is very good to publish them publicly here because it gives a chance for SAP to remember about them and to correct them.

>

> Example : RZ10

the interesting part is, that on Windows systems much more parameters seems to be known. On any Unix system after a fresh installation I have unknown parameters - created by sapinst.

Markus

[ThomasZloch]

I still remember the times before SNOTE, so that was quite a progress, but yes, why is it still limited to code changes and the big rest must be done manually, especially creation of new objects? You should ask "the real gurus" during the next TechEd sessions

Thomas