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Future of the "SAP Java Connector"

Is the SAP Java Connector still a good way to connect a Java Application with SAP ? Will there be a support and maintenance of the connector in the future (especially in ECC 6.0) or is the one and only good way the usage of the "Enterprise Services" in ECC 6.0 ? ...

What is SAP, and what are it's common applications?

Can someone just give me a quick run through of what SAP is. I googled it but there are too many different versions of it so I'm not sure where exactly to start! ...

How do I know whether an application support OLE2 and which methods & attributes are exposed?

I want to call an ActiveX DLL or OLE2 object from ABAP. I already know the syntax of how to instantiate the object & execute the methods: data: my_object type ole2_object. create object my_object <ole2object>. call method of my_object <objectmethod>. But given a particular application, how do I know if this is supported, what the...

Server Load for SAP Secure Network Connection Encryption

If you turn on encryption in SAP between the client and the server using the Secure Network Connection, then is there a load placed on the server to do all the encryption work? How big a load? Is it equivalent to the difference between HTTP and HTTPS on a web server? ...

Fields in USR02 table in SAP

Prompt please what the difference between fields PWDCHGDATE and BCDA1; PWDLGNDATE and TRDAT table USR02 ? ...

source code of a transaction in SAP

How can you look at the source code of a transaction in SAP? ...

Crazy idea: Connect .NET and SAP with SAP JCo using IKVM.NET

Because the SAP Connector for .NET is no longer maintained by SAP, I am now looking for an alternative to connect the Microsoft world with the SAP world. I know there are third party products like "ERPConnect", but I want to do this with tools from SAP (by the way I cannnot use the Enterprise Services, because the target SAP system is SA...

Update GTS Part Classification in background

I'm looking for a way to update Part Classification data programmatically. This is the data on the Classification tab of transaction /sapsll/product_03. Classification data is stored in table /SAPSLL/PRCTSC. I found function module /SAPSLL/PRCTSC_DB_WRITE but it basically just does a direct table update. I'd like to take advantage of...

USOBT & USOBT_C

What different USOBT from USOBT_C in SAP? ...

Future of the SAP RFC SDK

Is the SAP RFC SDK (wdtfuncs.ocx, wdtlog.ocx respectively Interop.SAPFunctionsOCX.dll, Interop.SAPLogonCtrl.dll) an acceptable / recommended way to connect (Microsoft) applications via RFCs with SAP ? Will there be a support and maintenance of the SDK in the future (especially in ECC 6.0) ? Are there people who use these controls in .NET...

SAP Shortcut file - How to redirect to specific transaction screen in SAP?

Problem : How to redirect the user to a specific executed transaction screen in SAP? Generated the SAP shortcut and able to redirect the user to specific transaction screen. It is also possible to prefill the required input parameters. The corresponding line in the shortcut is- Command=AB12 RIWO00-input1=200001212; where AB12 is the...

Copy / Move One SAP Client From One System to another System

We have one SAP system in the US (lets call it TKIJVPL1), this system has an SAP Client, client 241. We have another SAP system in Germany (lets call it Lockweiler). We need to move this client 241 from our TKIJVPL1 server to this new server. Can I simply use transaction SCC8? It says client export, but when I look at the options it s...

SAP Netweaver JEE AS

Where is it possible to download a trial/community/developer version of SAP Netweaver Java EE Application Server? Thanks a lot! ...

lock users in SAP

How to completely disable the lock users in SAP? What setting controls this (login / failed_user_auto_unlock)? ...

SICF services in SAP

Where stored code SICF services in SAP ? I am interested in the path on the SAP local machine. ...

Usage of WCF RIA Services, where the datasource isn't a classical (relational) database

I want (have) to write a Silverlight and (or) ASP.NET based webapplication with SAP in the backend (in other words, the datasource is no classical database) . The usage of Silverlight and ASP.NET is a precondition. Is it possible to use the WCF RIA Services (and Silverlight) where the data-source are RFCs from SAP ? Makes this sense ? If...

GLAccount Information - Simulate BAPI_INCOMINGINVOICE_CREATE

I am currently working on an application that posts invoices to SAP using Java/JCo. I am using BAPI_INCOMINGINVOICE_CREATE for the purpose and it works perfectly fine. Now I have an additional requirement to preview the GL Account distribution of the gross amount (credits and debits) before confirming the transaction through BAPI_TRANSA...

ABAP: How to combine select max and count?

Hello, I've got this: select ordernr from users having count(ordernr) = ( select max(count(ordernr)) from users where ordernr = ordernr group by ordernr ) group by ordernr to get the most used order-number (ordernr) from all users. How to get it into ABAP SAP System? I've tried this: select SINGLE ordernr from ZDEVXXX...

SAP iDocs in XML

hi there, is there a way to replace the legacy idoc files to XML when dealing with SAP? If so would it be something that is provided by the SAP or we have to use a third party library to do that? Is it a good practice to do it (than using the legacy idoc files), and would it have a adverse performance hit? help appreciated. /BB ...

ABAP HRIQ_UPDATE_INFTY not update hrp1001

HRIQ_UPDATE_INFTY returns sy-subrc=0. But it actually doesn't make any changes to it. Part source code: lt_single_1001 TYPE STANDARD TABLE OF p1001 WITH HEADER LINE, lt_1001 TYPE STANDARD TABLE OF hrp1001 WITH HEADER LINE, SELECT * FROM hrp1001 INTO TABLE lt_1001 WHERE objid = -cs_objid AND sobid = lv_major_i...