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How to round a sum for the swiss currency (francs) in ABAP

here in switzerland our currency is francs and the smallest coin is 5 centimes which is 0.05 francs. what is the best way to round amounts to be payable with our money using the programming language ABAP in a SAP R/3 system? examples: " 4.48 should round to 4.50 " 2746.24 should round to 2746.25 ...

SAP Portal with thirdparty content

Anyone integrated SAP Portal with a third party web content management system (e.g., Vignette)? I don't have too much exposure to SAP Portal, but I know it provides a J2EE App Server and there are something called iViews which I would assume are some sort of fancy JSPs and Servlets etc. Any insight will be helpful. ...

How to decode SAP text from from STXL.CLUSTD ?

I know ! The "proper" way to read STXL.CLUSTD is through SAP ABAP function. But I'm sorry, we are suffering badly from performance problem. We have already make our decision to go directly to the database (Oracle), and we don't have any plan to revert our decision yet since everything goes so much better so far. However, we've came acro...

What is "POSNR" an abreviation or acronym for?

I'm working with some data that's coming out of an SAP system. There's a field named POSNR that appears to be a line item/database identifier of some kind. What is this an abbreviation for? It's not hyper-critical to what I'm doing, but every time I stare at the word it looks like pure gibberish and can be slightly distracting. ...

Helicopterview of ABAP

I don't know a thing about ABAP, apart from it has an OO side, and I would like to have some kind of helicopterview of it before I start to look at it in detail. I know I can find all of this when studying it , but like I said for starters I like to know what I am dealing with. Is it (always) compiled? Typestem : Is it strongly type...

SAP Vendor Invoice

Hi All, I am looking for FM/tables that gives some info about Company, Internal Order, Vendor, Invoice Amount, Invoice Date, Tax Amount, Tax Jurisdiction, G/L Account Affected. Could you please help me with this. Thanks in advance, Raja Chandra Rangineni ...

Integrating Magento with SAP ECC 6.0 Backend

I'm a freshly graduated (read: inexperienced) developer who's been tasked with determining the feasibility of integrating Magento with an SAP-based backend. No developer at our company has any experience working with either SAP or Magento, so I was hoping that the Stack Overflow community may be able to point me in the right direction wi...

Microsoft and SAP

For many years I have used the old "SAP DCOM Connector" to communicate between Microsoft based applications and SAP. Unfortunately this old but good and performant technology is no longer supported by SAP since years. Therefore I want and must migrate to another newer technology. First there is the "SAP Connector for .NET 2.0". At first...

Installing SAP ECC 6.0

Is it possible to install SAP ECC 6.0 on a local dev box? I need to test integrating with with SAP from another application (through BAPIs) and am having a hard time finding any type of developer edition or even a virtual appliance that I can quickly test with. Any pointers? ...

What is a platform independent way to access SBO?

So, is there any direct way to do that (without using a proxy)? ...

Why is KOFAX SAP Function Module Z_DICOM_STORE_USING_FB60_FB65 not being Populated when Run?

We have upgraded our development SAP system from ECC6 SPS3 to ECC6 SPS5. An application external to SAP (KOFAX - a SAP certified product) passes an invoice image and invoice data to the SAP system. It then calls the Function Module Z_DICOM_STORE_USING_FB60_FB65 (supplied by KOFAX) in order to store the image on the SAP Content Server an...

SAP Function Module SCMS_AO_URL_READ Returns a Communications Error when called from the SAP Portal

We have upgraded our development SAP system from (ECC6 and SAP Portal) from SPS3 to SPS5. Now when a user logs onto the SAP Portal and run a bespoke Java Web Dynpro screen (which in turn calls SAP standard Function Module SCMS_AO_URL_READ in order to retrieve a UWL), an exception is returned. When the Function Module SCMS_AO_URL_READ i...

Web Service hosted by SAP and consumed by a .NET Application

I'm trying to setup an SAP Web Service that would be consumed by a .NET application. Thinking it was simple, I had set the Service up in SAP to use HTTP. I right-click on the "Service References" in the .NET Project Tree, and choose "Add Service Reference...", Enter the WSDL URL locally hosted on our servers, and press Go, then select ...

SAP making HTTPS requests to REST service

Is this possible? I'm about to start into a project which requires a call from an SAP instance to a remotely hosted service using XML over HTTPS. Does anyone have sample ABAP code? ...

SAP PI Components vs. Different Stages/ENV

We are in the process of integrating PI to our system landscape. I read in the SAP Best Practices for Naming Conventions that you should include the stage/environment in your Business System Names. ex: BS_SOMEJMS_P (as P for Production) My question is; in different components, such as Receiver Determination, you include the Business ...

How can I use sftp with SAP?

Currently we use FTP, but there is a requirement to use SFTP. According to our Basis guys SFTP will not work. We have a couple of alternatives: Use PI Use a Unix script to move the files However, is there something we are missing that would enable us to use SFTP in a similar way to FTP? Example of code calling FTP: CALL FUNCTIO...

How to save sap IMetaData into file (and then reload it as IMetaData)?

Hi all, I need to save the JCO (sap) IMetadata object in a file, then create the IMetaData object from the file on a different computer. can anyone help me on how to do so? thanks! :) ...

SAP 4.6C and webservices

Is it possible to provide RFCs as webservices with SAP 4.6C ? ...

Business Objects ver 3 Alternate Row/Column Colors not active

I am converting reports from version 2 to version 3. When I select the vertical table in the report, the propeties box appears but any changes I make is not reflected in the table. If I change any attributes at the column or cell level however, the changes are taken. The problem is that some attributes like alternate row coloring are n...

How can I connect to SAP from C# through the SAP NetWeaver RFC Library (sapnwrfc.dll)?

Our software is written in C# and needs to connect to SAP. As some of our customers use older versions of SAP, and others don't have SAP PI, we can't connect through webservices. I tried to connect to SAP through the SAP NetWeaver Remote Function Call Library (sapnwrfc.dll) as follows: Add sapnwrfc.dll and the other dlls from NWRFC_6-...