Advantages:

• Number of cash journal business transactions can be created as a part of customizing. Hence it is easy, smooth and fast to make entries in the cash journal.
• In a two-step procedure, you save the entries in the cash journal before they are transferred to Financial Accounting.
• If you have the appropriate authorization, you can delete cash journal entries that have been saved.
• The cash journal is a single-screen transaction. This means that you can enter, display, and change cash journal documents on one screen.
• Cash journal entry (receipt, payment) can be printed easily. Also cash journal printing is possible.
• The system automatically calculates and displays the opening and closing balances, and the receipts and payments totals.
• Cash journal ensures that cash balance cannot go in negative.
• All cash transactions are available at one place.
• Cash position can be viewed at any point of time.
• Cash transactions (receipts, payments) can be easily analysed on daily / weekly / monthly basis.
• Configuration time is also very less.

Notes:

• Separate cash journal has to be created for each currency petty cash.
• Branch-wise separate cash journal can be maintained.

Configuration:

SPRO > Financial Accounting > Bank Accounting > Business Transactions > Cash Journal

• FS00 – Create G/L Account for Cash Journal: Ensure post automatically is on, so that posting can take place automatically.
• OBA7 – Define Document Types for Cash Journal Documents: Standard document type delivered by SAP is SK. New can be created suggest to copy the SK.
• FBCJC0 – Set Up Cash Journal: Give a Cash Journal Code, GL account, currency, document types.
• FBCJC1 – Define Number Range Intervals for Cash Journal Documents
• FBCJC2 – Create, Change, Delete Business Transactions: Enter business transactions based on frequently used postings. E.g. business transaction for Conveyance Expenses. Enter company code, transaction serial number (like 1 or 2). It can be used while posting cash journal transactions in FBCJ. For vendors & Customers GL account need not be given.
• FBCJC3 – Set up print parameters for cash journal: Enter company code, programme RFCASH**, Variant CASH**, Correspondence SAP18

Valuable thoughts / suggestions are always acceptable.

SAP S/4 HANA, on-premise edition 1511 has been released on November 11 and SAP ICC offers the following certification scenarios:

• S/4-ABAP 1511
• S/4-HCM-LOC 1511
• S/4-B2B-OCI 1.0
• S/4-HR-PDC 1.0
• S/4-LE-IDW 1.0
• S/4-PP-PDC 1.0
• S/4-QM-IDI 1.0
• S/4-TAX-US 1.0
• S/4-WM-LSR 1.0

The functional scope and the pricing for the certification service will remain the same as for the corresponding scenario offered for SAP Business Suite. To learn more about this just visit the corresponding scenario page, like HR-PDC for S/4-HR-PDC. You can get an overview of all scenarios here.

Scenarios which require a SAP NetWeaver standalone installation only, are not affected. Here re-certification is only required if an integration scenario has been changed from SAP NetWeaver 7.40 to 7.50

Because SAP S/4HANA is a brand new product, no existing application specific certification will be valid for S/4HANA, so a re-certification will be required for the above mentioned scenarios.

SAP S/4HANA is SAPs next-generation business suite, it is not a legal successor of any SAP Business Suite product. It is a new product completely built on one of the most advanced in-memory platform today - SAP HANA - and modern design principles with the SAP Fiori user experience (UX). SAP S/4HANA delivers massive simplifications (customer adoption, data model, user experience, decision making, business processes, and models) and innovations (Internet of Things, Big Data, business networks, and mobile-first) to help businesses Run Simple in the digital economy.

In the approach to build SAP S/4HANA, SAP is re-architecting its solution for modern business processes demanded by an increasing digitization of the world. Re-architecting a solution that has been growing over the past 25 years means and sometimes evolved into different data structures and architectures means as well that we have to decide on one data structure and architecture moving forward. This is the only way how we can prepare the solution for more simplicity and faster innovation cycles.

To learn what this new product is about and how you can benefit from the special introductory offer, please watch our special webinar session below. You will get first insight and helpful information about the Certification Options for SAP S/4HANA, on-premise edition 1511.This exclusive webinar contains the following topics:

• Introduction into SAP S/4HANA
• Changes with SAP S/4HANA, relevant for integrated third-party products
• Certification options with SAP S/4HANA, on-premise edition 1511
• Q&A

More detailed information on these changes can be found here:

- http://help.sap.com/s4hana_op_1511, then go to Simplification List

- How to analyze and adjust Custom code for S/4HANA

- SAP S4/HANA Extensibility for Customers and Partners Whitepaper

Certified products will get the following logo:

If you are looking for more information or are already interested in obtaining a S/4HANA integration certification service please contact us: ICC

SAP Community Network (SCN) is a dynamic, diverse community. Being part of this vibrant, passionate community is like being part of a family. As you become active on SCN, you will grow your knowledge, build an expert reputation and make friends.

Regular participation is important for getting the most out of your engagement within the community. Not only do you receive ongoing feedback and interactive discussions, but being active on SCN is also a rewarding experience. To support the experience, we have established a reputation program with game mechanics to measure activity, thank you for contributions, help you establish credibility and visibility as a leader in the community -- while having fun.

Building Your Reputation: Points and Status

Once you’ve become a member of SCN, you start accumulating lifetime points. These points never expire and are displayed at the top of page next to your name.  SCN awards points to you when you contribute, or when you complete "missions."

You receive additional points when community members recognize the value of your quality contributions by "liking" or giving good ratings to your content.  If you regularly contribute, you will increase your chances of reaching the leaderboard of your Topic Space (based on the points in the last twelve months).

Note that you are able to contribute in your “Personal Space” as well. However, that area does not earn you points and will not show up in search. SCN assigns points for discussion messages marked as correct or helpful answers, blog posts, documents and wiki contributions. More detailed information can be found in the SCN Reputation Program FAQ.

Levels

All SCN members receive a level status based on their lifetime points. As you participate and accumulate points, you have a chance to celebrate achieving a higher-level status. There are ten levels: they begin with Glass (0-4 points) and continue to Diamond (15,000+ points).

Missions

A "mission" is like a virtual scavenger hunt, assigning you with one or more activities to complete that earn points and badges. These activities range from providing feedback on content to writing a blog post, or answering a question, or being recognized as an influencer and thought leader. Completion of a mission can result in points with a badge, points only, or a badge only. Examples of missions include the “I Was Here” mission, the “I Blogged!” mission, the “Answer Hero Plus” mission, and more.

Review SCN missions: List of SCN Missions and Previous/Retired SCN Missions.

Badges

Badges are icons you earn once you’ve completed a mission. These symbols give you an opportunity to display where you have been during your SCN journey, as wel as which accomplishments you’ve achieved.

Increased Visibility

Visibility in the community is key. Whether you are an SAP customer, partner or employee, you should take advantage of the opportunity to build your reputation within the community. Showcasing your expertise has its benefits in terms of career growth, networking, and overall personal reputation. The biggest influencers -- known by their actions, expertise and helpfulness -- are sponsored as SAP Mentors, receiving free admission to SAP events.

So how can you increase your visibility?

The first step is to maintain your user profile. Your user profile provides other members valuable information about your experience, recently created content, the people and places you follow. The reputation tab will be the place where you shine, highlighting recent contribution points, missions and badges earned, topic expertise, and ranking among the community and your connections.

The second step is to give back by contributing high-quality content to SCN. The SCN platform is social and you will be recognized for your actions. The best content is prominently featured on the site. You may be recognized formally as “Member of the Month," or your peers may nominate you to become an SAP Mentor.

Additionally, SCN Moderators are always on the hunt for subject-matter experts with strong community spirit to join their ranks. Display those characteristics and you, too, may be nominated for the role!

Category: Fiori Technology

This is a collaborative document to share lessons learned content for the SAP Fiori Overview Page in the community SAP Fiori.

Please feel free to insert the link of your document or blog by selecting the edit button from Actions.  You can also search information and open a discussion if you can't find required information. Please don't forget to put the tag fiori.

SAP Fiori Overview Page (OVP) provides a new interaction within SAP Fiori UX. The OVP can be seen as a step between the basic information on the SAP Fiori launchpad and the full blown information within the SAP Fiori applications. While simultaneously presenting the big picture in a glance, business users can focus on the most important tasks enabling faster decision making as well as immediate action.

New and Updated:

• YYYY-MM-DD Please share your documents and blogs.
• 2016-02-05 How to make your OData entities work with the Fiori Overview Page and Cards leveraging the new SAP Web IDE annotation modeler by Frank Schuler
• 2016-01-29 Steps to Create Analytic card on overview page using northwind odata service (V3) in web ide.   by  abhishek lohiya
• 2016-01-11 SAP Overview Page List Cards Examples by Dusan Sacha
• 2015-12-17 SAP Fiori Overview Page - Frequently Asked Questions
• 2015-11-16 SAP Fiori Overview Page - What's Available with the First Release?
• 2015-10-25 Introducing SAP Fiori Overview Page: Card-based Information Visualization by Raz Korn
• 2015-10-19 Customer Influence: Enroll to SAP Fiori Overview Page CEI
• 2015-10-15 The SAP Fiori Overview Page has been added to the UX Explorer! by Raz Korn

Introduction Video:

Getting Started with SAP Fiori Overview Page:

• SAP Fiori Overview Page - Frequently Asked Questions
• SAP Fiori Overview Page online help
• SAP Fiori Overview Page Web IDE plugin online help
  • Prerequisite: HCP account with SAP Web IDE - For more information: SAP Web IDE - Enablement

SAP Documents:

• SAP Fiori Overview Page - Frequently Asked Questions
• Introducing SAP Fiori Overview Page: Card-based Information Visualization
• UX Explorer: SAP Fiori Overview Page
• SAP Fiori Overview Page for Developers - Architecture Overview

How to Guides:

• How to setup the SAP Fiori Overview Page
• SAP Overview Page List Cards Examples by Dusan Sacha
• Steps to Create Analytic card on overview page using northwind odata service (V3) in web ide. by abhishek lohiya
• How to make your OData entities work with the Fiori Overview Page and Cards leveraging the new SAP Web IDE annotation modeler by Frank Schuler

Learning:

• SAP Fiori Overview Page Overview

The information on this page is valid for all SAP applications which agree with the General Support Statement for Virtual Environments (see SAP Note 1492000).

For support information on SAP HANA and SAP HANA-related applications with VMware vSphere, see the page SAP HANA on VMware vSphere.

News

• SAP released SAP HANA Multi-VM and Scale-Out support on vSphere 5.5. HANA Multi-VM and Scale-Out have been in a CA (Controlled Availability) program for about 8 months and had over 120 customers in it. More details see the page SAP HANA on VMware vSphere
• New SAP Note 2266266 on Key Monitoring Metrics for SAP on VMware vSphere (version 5.5 u3 and higher)
• VMware vSphere 6.0 with SAP HANA SPS 09 (or later releases) is supported now for non-production use cases. Please read SAP Note 1788665 for more details.
• vSphere 6.0 SAP support got recently released for all SAP applications which agree with the General Support Statement for Virtual Environments (see SAP Note 1492000). vSphere 6.0 can now get used to virtualize these production and non-production SAP applications running on Windows and Linux OS. For details check out SAP Note 1409608 and 1122388.

Support Information

• VMware vSphere 5.5 U3 and 6.0: Known Issues
  When operating your SAP software with VMware vSphere, check SAP Notes 2229228 and SAP Note 2237937 for the required patches.
• We have lately seen some issues with VMs freezing intermittently under heavy I/O load. We strongly recommend to read VMware KB 2088157 and to proactively apply the recommended vSphere patch available for your version.

SAP Notes Related to VMware

For a list of SAP Notes that are related to the use of SAP applications on VMware products, see SAP Notes Related to VMware.

For all Windows on VMware vSphere specific notes, see SAP Notes for Windows in Virtual Environments and for a list of SAP Notes related to Linux, see SAP Notes for Linux in Virtual Environments.

Supported SAP Applications

With the General Support Statement for Virtual Environments (SAP Note 1492000), SAP supports almost all its applications on a proven stack of virtualization solution, operating system and database.

Therefore all SAP applications - except the following - are supported on the stack of VMware vSphere, guest OS and database versions listed on this page:

• BWA
• SAP HANA and SAP HANA-related applications (for support, check SAP HANA on VMware vSphere)
• SAP ITS 6.20

Supported Guest Operating Systems by SAP

The table below provides a short overview on supported guest operating systems. For prerequisites and configuration details for support, check SAP Note 1409608 on Windows and SAP Note 1122387 on Linux.

For a detailed list of supported guest operating systems on VMware vSphere, please read the Guest OS Compatibility Guide.

Supported Databases

The table below provides a short overview on supported databases. For detailed information on support of your database product, check the relevant SAP Notes listed below.

(*1) only for specified DB, VMware and guest OS versions listed in SAP Note 1130801 and http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/wikis/display/im/DB2+Virtualization+Support
(*2) see SAP Note 1142243

(*3) Restricted Oracle support, only for specified DB, VMware and guest OS versions listed in SAP Note 1173954. For details on Oracle Support and Licensing on VMware, see Video.

(*4) released as of SAP ASE version 15.7; see SAP Note 1706801

(*5) released as of SAP IQ version 15.4, see VMware document SAP Sybase IQ on VMware vSphere

(*6) For support information on SAP HANA and SAP HANA-related applications with VMware vSphere, see the page SAP HANA on VMware vSphere.

Frequently Asked Questions

For a list of frequently asked questions for the operation on SAP applications with VMware vSphere, check Frequently Asked Questions: VMware vSphere.

Getting Started and VMware Documents regarding SAP Products

• SAP VMware Alliance webpage, see SAP Virtualization and VMware: Run SAP Virtual
• For the operation of SAP software with VMware, see VMware documents regarding SAP products
• For high availability with VMware, see High Availability Solutions for SAP on VMware
• For Customer Case Studies with SAP on VMware, see http://www.vmware.com/business-critical-apps/sap-virtualization/customer-success.html.
• For consulting services with VMware, see Joint consulting services from SAP and VMware
• Blog: VMware - Business Critical Applications - SAP

This document summarizes the support status, roadmap and offerings of SAP HANA on VMware vSphere.

SAP released SAP HANA Multi-VM and Scale-Out support on vSphere 5.5

As stated in SCN article:SAP HANA virtualized - Overview, the multi-VM and Scale-out scenarios on vSphere 5.5 have moved into General Availability after a more than a year-long testing period and after the defined KPIs for the number of live customers have been met.  Also see SAP Note 2024433 and SAP Note 2157587. Customers can now deploy all GA supported SAP HANA deployment options and scenarios as it would be on bare metal.

SAP supports now SAP HANA on vSphere 6 for non-production use cases.

Since October 2015 VMware vSphere 6.0 with SAP HANA SPS 09 (or later releases) is supported now for non-production use cases. Please read SAP Note 1788665 for more details.

SAP Support for SAP HANA Scale-Out Configurations.

For details please see SAP Notes 1788665 - "SAP HANA Support for virtualized / partitioned (multi-tenant) environments" and the Best Practices and Recommendations for Scale-Out Deployments of SAP HANA on VMware vSphere guide: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/sap-hana-scale-out-deployments-on-vsphere.pdf

VCE  and VMware recently performed a virtualized SAP HANA BW-EML benchmark with a 3,000,000,000 records SAP HANA Scale-Out database, Number: 2015016. The benchmark demonstrates that SAP HANA can achieve robust application performance in virtualized environments, as well as provide customers with additional options to help lower datacenter TCO.

Compared to a similar natively running benchmark with a result of 128,650 DS/hr., the virtual result with 124,570 DS/hr. was only 3.2% less than native!

The benchmark was performed on Intel Westmere based server systems to allow a direct comparison between natively running systems with virtualized SAP HANA systems. At the time this benchmark got performed, the only public available 3 billion record Scale-Out SAP HANA BW-EML benchmark with 4 SAP HANA Scale-Out hosts was benchmark number 2013037, which got selected for this comparison. Focus of this benchmark was to gain SAP support for SAP HANA Scale-Out configurations on vSphere by proofing that a virtualized SAP HANA Scale-Out system meets the requirements SAP has defined for virtual SAP HANA systems.

Source:

Native benchmark: http://global.sap.com/solutions/benchmark/pdf/Cert13037.pdf

Virtual benchmark: http://global.sap.com/solutions/benchmark/pdf/Cert15016.pdf

SAP HANA Storage Connector API Validated Vendors:

Protecting a VMware virtualized SAP HANA system with VMware HA provides already very high system availability. Customers that want to use the Host Auto-Failover solution to failover to a Standby VM can do this with selected storage vendors that have validated their SAP HANA Storage Connector implementation in a vSphere virtualized environment.

Virtualizing SAP HANA with VMware vSphere does not limit the customers freedom of choice how they want to protect their SAP HANA environment and works currently with some storage HW vendors to validate their SAP HANA Standby VM solution in vSphere environments.

Note: The SAP HANA Storage Connector API is not needed nor utilized for a standard SAP HANA Scale-Out configuration that leverages VMware datastores, VMDK disks and VMware HA. It is only required if a customer wants to implement the Standby Host/VM solution, which normally is not required when running a virtualized SAP HANA system.

Validated vendors that have tested their SAP HANA Standby VM solution in vSphere environments will get listed in this table:

SAP HANA Support Summary as of Februar 2016

• General supportfor SAP HANA on VMware vSphere 5.1 in non-production
• General support for SAP HANA on VMware vSphere 6.0 in non-production
• General supportfor single SAP HANA VMs on VMware vSphere 5.5 in production and non-production
• General supportfor multi-VM and BW on HANA scale-out scenarios on VMware vSphere 5.5 in production

On Roadmap:

• Support of larger VMs (up to 4 TB) and 8-socket hardware with VMware vSphere 6

Remark: This table is a summary of SAP note 1788665. Please check out this note for the latest, official support status, the table below may be outdated.

SAP HANA Relevant vSphere Maximums*

*as of today vSphere 6 for non-production use cases only ** with selected server OEM partners only

SAP HANA on vSphere Best Practices Overview

SAP HANA on vSphere – It just Runs!

For the most part SAP HANA follows general published vSphere Best Practices for databases:

• Set Memory Reservations for SAP HANA Virtual Machines
• Configuring Paravirtual SCSI Controllers and Network Adapters
• Right sizing of HANA VMs to ensure local NUMA node memory access and high 2nd level cache hit ratios
• No NUMA node sharing for production SAP HANA VMs
• Enable Hyper Threading on the ESXi host
• Use dedicated networks for vMotion, management and client network
• Use vMotion and VMware snapshots during non peak times
  

SAP HANA on vSphere Best Practices Guide and more:

• www.vmware/go/sap-hana
• http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/SAP_HANA_on_vmware_vSphere_best_practices_guide.pdf
• Best Practices and Recommendations for Scale-Out Deployments of SAP HANA on VMware vSphere: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/sap-hana-scale-out-deployments-on-vsphere.pdf

Summary: Physical SAP HANA” vs. virtual SAP HANA as of Februar 2016

* vSphere 6 for non-prod. use cases **vRAM configuration is not allowed to exceed installed memory of a physciclal server system and must follow SAP HANA sizing guidelines. ***Some SAP HANA HW vendors offer VMware vSphere as part of their SAP HANA appliance system. This is not required and optional. The customer can choose between a pre-installed appliance or the certified server configuration and may perform the installation of vSphere on its own.

VMware SAP HANA  System Health Check

VMware offers on demand a free SAP HANA PoC System Health Check.

This offering is limited to SAP HANA on vSphere configurations that are currently not in GA status and includes following services:

1. Pre-Call to discuss the PoC, goals, timeline and success factors (SAP, HW Partner, Customer and VMware)
2. Architecture review and introduction to the SAP HANA on vSphere Configuration Guidelines and Requirements
3. Introduction to SAP HANA Hardware Check Configuration Utility and its KPIs
4. 90 Min online review session to check following (after customer has prepared the environment) components:
   1. Host including storage and network configuration
   2. VM configuration
   3. Linux OS configuration
5. After successful review the customer can proceed with the HANA installation
6. PoC calls and meetings as needed to discuss status
7. Final review of PoC and planning of next steps

For details and availability of this service in your region please get in contact with your local VMware contact.

Beside this, SAP and VMware are offering joint services to help you design, deploy, and implement your virtual SAP HANA platform.

For more information on SAP Consulting and VMware Professional Services, visit vmware.com/consulting

Here you find the links to step-by-step tutorials that explain how to implement and configure secure applications on SAP HANA Cloud Platform. The key topics covered by the tutorials are Single Sign-On (SSO) and Identity Federation with the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) 2.0 and web API protection with the Open Authorization (OAuth) Framework 2.0. All tutorials follow the same scenario: A leave request application in the Cloud will be enabled for Single Sign-On (SSO) so that employees can seamlessly access the application from a desktop or mobile device. The tutorials on SSO with SAML demonstrate how to integrate with a wide range of existing identity and access management (IAM) systems in the corporate network, e.g. ADFS, OpenSSO and SAP NetWeaver SSO.

Introduction To CTS+ Transport Organizer In PI

• CTS+ Transport Organizer: you can transport the objects from SAP Net Weaver PI or SAP PO with CTS + tool.

• ESR objects

• Integration  Directory Objects

• Developed Objects can be moved from Development environment to Quality, Staging, and Production Environment.

• Create TR and export objects from ESR and ID level to the created TR and release it into Quality and other Environments.

• Please refer to below screen shots.

1)  ESR or ID level -->Tools-->Open CTS Transport Organizer

2)      Provide User Id and Password

3)      To create Transport Request Number

          Click on “Create Request”

4)      Give “Description” about Interface and select “Preselect Request for Owner”.

5)       As shown below transport request number is created.

6)      Now go to ESR and right click on the objects and click on “EXPORT”.

7)       Give name and description about transport objects and click on “CONTINUE”.

8)       Select the objects which to be moved into TR and click on “Continue”.

9)      Crosscheck Transport number and click on Continue and lastly click on Finish.

  10)  The exported objects can be seen in object list in CTS + window.

11)  Now click on “Release” to release the TR from your end and Basis Team move this TR to Quality.

12)  In the same way move Integration Directory Objects using CTS+ Tool.

The SAP Product Security Response Team thanks all researchers and security IT professionals that helped with discovering and solving security vulnerabilities. Their findings have helped SAP to maintain the security and safety of its customers' and partners' SAP systems.

Our acknowledgements page lists those professionals we have worked with successfully in the past. We thank all security researchers for their excellent work and hope to continue the fruitful relationship between security professionals and SAP.

For the current month's acknowledgments, visit theacknowledgments homepage.

For acknowledgements previous to 2014, visit theacknowledgments archive (2011 to 2013)page

January 2016

Dipen Bharat Patel

ERPScan, Mathieu Geli, Vahagn Vardanyan

ERPSecurity, Joris van de Vis

Hyundai AutoEver Europe GmbH, Ashar Javed

Maads Security, Muhammad Shahmeer Amir

Onapsis, Juan Perez-Etchegoyen, Nahuel D. Sánchez

Positive Research Center, Dmitry Sklyarov, Dmitry Gutsko, Vyacheslav Mavlyanov

Werth IT, Thomas Werth

December 2015

2NS - Second Nature Security, Juho Nurminen

ERPScan, Alexander Polyakov, Mathieu Geli, Vahagn Vardanyan

Hyundai AutoEver Europe GmbH, Ashar Javed

Khair Alhamad

NCC Group,Soroush Dalili

Onapsis, Alejandro Gabriel Burzyn, Juan Perez-Etchegoyen, Nahuel D. Sánchez, Sergio Abraham, Will Vandevanter

Portcullis Advisories, Sam Barltrop

Rui Silva

Trustwave, Martin Rakhmanov

ZDI Disclosures, Steven Seeley

November 2015

Blackroot Technologies, Pflash Punk, Virender C Nishad

ERPScan, Alexander Polyakov, Mathieu Geli

Hyundai AutoEver Europe GmbH, Ashar Javed

Martin Maruskin

Muhammad Zeeshan

Onapsis, Fernando Russ, Pablo Artuso, Sergio Abraham

Pradeep Kumar

Shawar Khan

Virtual Forge, Agnes Six, Andreas Wiegenstein, Horst Bartmann, Thomas Kastner

FH Muenster, Damian Poddebniak, Prof. Dr. Sebastian Schinzel

October 2015

ERPScan, Mathieu GELI

Center for Computing Technologies at the Universität Bremen (TZI), Karsten Sohr

Mehmet Nurcan

NCC Group, Soroush Dalili

netizen 01k

Onapsis, Alejandro Gabriel Burzyn, Fernando Russ, Jordan Santarsieri, Juan Perez-Etchegoyen, Nahuel D. Sánchez, Pablo Artuso, Pabio Muller, Sergio Abraham

Pavan Paidy

Tayyab Qadir

ZDI Disclosures, Steven Seeley

September 2015

54H00, Sumit Sahoo

ERPScan, Roman Bezhan, Vahagn Vardanyan

ERPSecurity, Joris van de Vis

Integrity, Tiago Sintra

Novabase, Daniel Garrido

Onapsis, Juan Perez-Etchegoyen, Nahuel D. Sánchez, Sergio Abraham

Syed Daniyal Bin Rashid

August 2015

2NS - Second Nature Security, Juho Nurminen

Bluebanyan Softech Pvt. Ltd, Mohit Sahu

ERPScan, Dmitry Chastuhin,Roman Bezhan, Vahagn Vardanyan

ERPSecurity, Joris van de Vis

Hyundai AutoEver Europe GmbH, Ashar Javed

Onapsis, Fernando Russ,Juan Perez-Etchegoyen, Nahuel D. Sánchez, Pablo Artuso, Sergio Abraham

Weaveability Ltd, Rob Moss

July 2015

Amrita School of Arts and Sciences, Indrajith AN

ERPScan, Alexander Polyakov

ESNC, Ertunga Arsal

Hyundai AutoEver Europe GmbH, Ashar Javed

Onapsis, Juan Perez-Etchegoyen, Sergio Abraham

Subgraph, David Mckinney

Trustwave, Martin Rakhmanov

Werth IT, Thomas Werth

June 2015

Daimler TSS GmbH, Jürgen Bilberger
ERPScan, Diana Grigoreva,Rustem Gazizov, Vahagn Vardanyan

Kamran Saifullah

Onapsis, Pablo Muller, Juan Perez-Etchegoyen, Sergio Abraham

Sogeti, Mark Deiss

May 2015

Alexander Klink

Abdul Wasay

Core Security,Martin Gallo

ERPScan, Dmitry Chastuhin, Vahagn Vardanyan

Pegasus

Onapsis,Juan Perez-Etchegoyen, Nahuel D. Sánchez, Pablo Artuso, Will Vandevanter

Trustwave, Martin Rakhmanov

Virtual Forge, Andreas Wiegenstein

Xiting, Julius Bussche

April 2015

Onapsis,Nahuel D. Sánchez

Onapsis,Fernando Russ

Martijn Sprengers

March 2015

ERPScan,Dmitry Chastuhin, Vahagn Vardanyan

ESNC, Ertunga Arsal

Onapsis,Sergio Abraham

February 2015

ERPScan, Dmitry Chastuhin, Dmitry Evdokimov, George Nosenko, Vahagn Vardanyan

ING Services Polska,Lukasz Miedzinski

Onapsis, Nahuel D. Sánchez, Fernando Russ

Roberto Garcia Amoriz

Virtual Forge, Andreas Wiegenstein

January 2015

ERPScan, Nikolay Mescherin

ESNC, Ertunga Arsal

Gopal Bisht

Gerasimos Panou

Onapsis, Sergio Abraham, Nahuel D. Sánchez, Fernando Russ

Rabiya Batool

Sense of Security, Fatih Ozavci

Trustwave SpiderLabs, Martin Rakhmanov

Virtual Forge, Andreas Wiegenstein

December 2014

Diego Bardalez Plaza

ERPScan, George Nosenko, Vahagn Vardanyan

ESNC, Ertunga Arsal

Genral Motors, Markus Seibel

Mohamed Abdelbaset Elnoby

Sense of Security, Fatih Ozavci

Virtual Forge, Andreas Wiegenstein, Xu Jia

ZDI, John Leitch

November 2014

Emaze Networks S.p.A., Enrico Milanese

ERPScan, Vahagn Vardanyan

ERPSecurity,Joris van de Vis

ESNC, Ertunga Arsal, Mert Suoglu

Kamil Sevi, Kamil Sevi

Portcullis Advisories, Tim Brown

Siemens AG

Subgraph, David Mckinney

Virtual Forge, Andreas Wiegenstein, Xu Jia

October 2014

AKS IT Services, V. Lakshmi Kiran

Core Security, Martin Gallo

ERPScan, Alexey Tyurin,Dmitry Chastuhin, Igor Ilyin, Roman Bazhin, Vahagn Vardanyan

ERPSecurity, Joris van de Vis

Onapsis, Will Vandevanter

Subgraph, David Mckinney

Virtual Forge, Andreas Wiegenstein, Frederik Weidemann, Peter Werner, Xu Jia

September 2014

ERPSecurity,Joris van de Vis, SAP Security Note 2030775

ERPSecurity,Joris van de Vis, SAP Security Note 2043506

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ESNC, Ertunga Arsal, SAP Security Note 1870485

NTT Com Security, Stephen Breen, SAP Security Note 2044175

NTT Com Security, Justin Kennedy, SAP Security Note 2053074

Trustwave, Martin Rakhmanov, SAP Security note 2044220

Virtual Forge, Andreas Wiegenstein & Xu Jia, SAP Security Note 1987773

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ZDI, Aniway Anyway, SAP Security Note 1999142

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ERNW, Florian Grunow, SAP Security Note 1988956

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Red-Team, Dave Hewson, SAP Security Note 1962104

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June 2014

Compass Security, Stefan Horlacher, SAP Security Note 1908531

ERPScan, Dmitry Chastuhin, Vahagn Varda SAP Security Note 2014881

Onapsis, Will Vandevanter, SAP Security Note 2015446

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Virtual Forge, Andreas Wiegenstein, SAP Security Note 1987413

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Applies to:

SAP NetWeaver 7.40, SAP Business Suite 7 i2013, SAP ECC 6.0 EhP7

Summary

Since Business Suite 7 Innovations 2010, many UIs provided by SAP are built using Floorplan Manager for Web Dynpro ABAP. These UIs are very flexible and easy to adapt to the needs of individual customers. This document presents an overview of the different options that Floorplan Manager provides for customer adaptations (Configuration, Customizing, and Personalization) and discusses their advantages and drawbacks.

Authors: Simon Hoeg, Christian Günther, Julia Bender

Company: SAP SE

Floorplan Manager for Web Dynpro ABAP

Most of the adaptation concepts used by Floorplan Manager (FPM) are available for Web Dynpro ABAP applications as well, i.e. Configuration, Customizing and Personalization. Figure 1 outlines these concepts.

Figure 1: Web Dynpro ABAP Adaptation Techniques

However, due to the specific way FPM uses Web Dynpro ABAP, special considerations are needed.

What is specific about FPM is the heavy usage of Web Dynpro configurations. So let’s have a look at the typical structure of an FPM-based application.

The entry point you need for starting an application is the application configuration, which is tied to a single Web Dynpro application. The necessary information needed to start the application is divided between these two entities:

• Web Dynpro ABAP Application: Contains information about the main component (the floorplan component in FPM applications, described below) and window of the application
• Web Dynpro ABAP Application Configuration: Contains information about the configuration used for starting the main component

  There are only 3 different main components used in FPM-based applications. Each one corresponds to one of the supported floorplans:

• OVP (Overview Page Floorplan): component FPM_OVP_COMPONENT
• GAF (Guided Activity Floorplan): component FPM_GAF_COMPONENT
• OIF (Object Instance Floorplan):  component FPM_OIF_COMPONENT

  These components implement the common behavior which is required by the SAP UI guidelines for all applications. However, as hundreds of applications share these components, the application-specific settings obviously cannot be part of the components themselves. Therefore, you can think of the components above as templates and all application-specific settings are stored within the configurations that you make of these components.

The configuration of the floorplan component contains information about the structure of the application (e.g. which roadmap steps shall be displayed in GAF, which pages shall be offered in OVP, etc.) and which components shall be embedded in the content areas, which buttons are displayed in the toolbar, name of application-specific controller, etc.

The most important information within the floorplan configuration is the list of the embedded components used for displaying the application data. These are normal Web Dynpro components which implement a specific interface (IF_FPM_UI_BUILDING BLOCK). In order to distinguish them from arbitrary Web Dynpro components, they are called UIBBs (UI Building Blocks). There are two types of UIBBs:

• Freestyle UIBBs: These UIBBs mostly have their own views, which are more or less static and specific for the application they are used for. Configuration is not relevant or of minor importance for this type of UIBB.
• Generic UIBBs (GUIBBs): These UIBBs are provided by the FPM framework (e.g. Form UIBB or List UIBB). These GUIBBs again implement the common behavior defined by the UI Guidelines. However, as with the floorplan component, everything that is application-specific is stored in the GUIBB component’s configuration. The configuration contains the layout information for the UI as well as a link to the feeder class, which is the interface to the backend functionality.

  And where is the application-specific code? So far, an FPM-based application is defined by a set of individual component configurations, but of course, there is specific coding involved in every application.

For the decision on how to adapt an FPM-based application, it is crucial to know what is done by coding and what is defined by configuration. Therefore, a list of places where coding is relevant is necessary:

• Application Controllers: These are used for dynamically changing, at runtime, the settings of the floorplan configuration. For example, the set of UIBBs within the content area might be configured statically within the floorplan configuration, or set at runtime.
• GUIBB Feeder Classes: These are used to provide the data displayed in the GUIBBs. There is no option for feeder classes to modify the configured screen layout (except for disabling or hiding fields). So, in the case of GUIBBs, it is normally quite simple to decide where to adapt.
• Freestyle UIBBs: Freestyle UIBBs must be considered as coding.

To summarize, an FPM-based application can be described as a tree of configurations plus some code, as Figure 2 shows:

Figure 2: Tree of configurations, controllers and feeder classes

In Figure 2, the darker boxes represent the application and component configurations while the lighter boxes represent 'code'. There is always the option to dynamically change configurations at runtime; therefore there is a 'code' box behind each configuration to indicate this. Nevertheless, the configurations have precedence over the code. The Composite UIBB is included in this figure just to demonstrate how 'deep' an application hierarchy can be.

Component Configurations

As outlined in the previous section, an FPM-based application is fundamentally defined by a tree of configurations. A configuration that belongs to a Web Dynpro component is created and edited by developers using Web Dynpro application CONFIGURE_COMPONENT. Like all workbench objects, the component configuration is found in all clients and it can be copied, versioned, enhanced and transported. Furthermore, it consists of an explicit and implicit part:

• The explicit part results from an explicitly-defined, also known as component-defined, configuration context. All the design templates (floorplans, Generic UIBBs) that are included in the Floorplan Manager are based on an explicit configuration context. They can be edited by using a WYSIWYG editor called FLUID (Flexible UI Designer) (see Figure 3
• The implicit part results from a generically created configuration context. UI elements that have been statically created by Web Dynpro can be edited in the Web Dynpro ABAP configuration editor via the View dropdown list option Web Dynpro built-in. Normally, implicit configuration can be ignored when using FPM.

Figure 3: FLUID (Flexible UI Designer) showing Component Configuration FPM_DEMO_PLAYER_OVP

A Detailed Look at the Structure of an FPM-Based Application

In this section we will have a detailed look at the structure of an FPM-based application. As an example, we will use application FPM_DEMO_PLAYER_1 with application configuration FPM_DEMO_PLAYER_1.

When you start the application, the screen looks like that of Figure 4:

Figure 4: Demo Application FPM_DEMO_PLAYER_1

Let’s look at the application’s structure using the Application Hierarchy Browser:

1. Make sure that you have run the demo application with an enabled SET/GET Parameter FPM_CONFIG_EXPERT, see the settings in transaction SU3.
2. Press the button in the header toolbar.
3. You are directed to the Application Hierarchy Browser which has two modes: the Browser Mode and the Deep-Copy Mode. For an overview of the application, we use the Browser Mode.
4. Choose the button ; the screen should look like Figure 5, displaying the application’s structure in a hierarchical way.

Figure 5: Application Hierarchy Browser

Now let’s try to map what you see in this schematic view of the application with the screen of the application.

The root node corresponds to an application configuration named FPM_DEMO_PLAYER_1, which is a configuration for application FPM_DEMO_PLAYER_1. Click on the link in the Configuration ID column; the editor for the application configuration is launched (see Figure 6).

Figure 6: Editor for Application Configuration

Application configuration FPM_DEMO_PLAYER_1 is using component FPM_OVP_COMPONENT as the start component; the one single row corresponds to that component. Here, it is specified that FPM_OVP_COMPONENT will start with component configuration FPM_DEMO_PLAYER_OVP. As component FPM_OVP_COMPONENT is the component providing the floorplan’s functionality and layout, we will use the term 'floorplan component' for it and the term 'floorplan configuration' for the configuration used to start it.

Close this window and go back to the Application Hierarchy Browser. We can see the same information in the second row (Figure 5).

Below the Overview Page Floorplan node there are sub-nodes for each page within the application; the application consists of two pages (Football Player and Tennis Player). Each page consists of a List UIBB in the page’s master area and a Form UIBB within the content area.

The UIBBs can be configurable or non-configurable. In this example we only use configurable UIBBs: a List and a Form UIBB. The list is used for displaying the names of football or tennis players. If an entry is selected in the list, the form displays further details of the selected player.

The UIBBs in this demo application are generic UIBBs (GUIBBs), which have to be configured. Therefore, in the rightmost column of the Application Hierarchy Browser you can find the configuration IDs used for running these UIBBs. For non-configurable UIBBs, this column would be empty.

Figure 7 shows the application at runtime. The colored sections indicate the different component configurations within the application.

Figure 7: Overview Page Floorplan (OVP) with List UIBB and Form UIBB

The root of the configuration hierarchy is the application configuration, which has no direct visual representation in the running application. However, it defines which components and configurations will be embedded directly into the application. This is the OVP with configuration FPM_DEMO_PLAYER_OVP (orange overlay).

Embedded in the OVP are several UIBBs. The two which are currently visible are marked with the blue overlay.

Close the Application Hierarchy Browser.

Which Objects have to be Adapted?

As you can see, an FPM-based application is composed of multiple objects: application, application configurations, component configurations and code (where code may mean feeder classes, application controllers, and Freestyle UIBBs). It is not easy to determine which objects must be adapted in order to achieve the intended changes. Therefore, the following table with a small selection of use-cases is intended to help you:

As you see, there are a lot of use-cases which can be covered by adapting component configurations and there are very powerful options to do this. Nevertheless, there are some adaptation use-cases where it is not enough to adapt only the configurations. The following table details some adaptation use-cases where 'code' must be adapted:

Options for Adaptations - Overview

This section provides an overview of the following adaptation options:

• Copy Application
• Enhancement
• Customizing and Personalization
• Modification
• Context-Based Adaptations (CBA)

Copy Application

The simplest option is to copy a SAP-delivered application. With the help of the Application Hierarchy Browser for Floorplan Manager it is quite simple to copy the whole configuration tree of an FPM application. It is also possible to keep some branches of the original tree and copy only the part you need to adapt.

       Advantages:

• It is easy to understand what is happening and there is absolutely no interference between your copied entities and later deliveries of the original application.

       Drawbacks:

• Corrections and improvements of configurations delivered by SAP which affect the original application will not reach the copied entities of your application.

Enhancement

The general NetWeaver Enhancement Framework works with FPM-based applications too, as all necessary entities can be enhanced (a detailed description of the Enhancement Framework in Web Dynpro ABAP applications can be found in this SAP Help documentation).

       Advantages:

• It is the only option that allows you to combine both code changes and configuration adaptations.
• From SAP NetWeaver 7.31 onwards, the enhancement only contains the changed parts of the application (so called delta-handling). Therefore, later changes or corrections will be applied even to an adapted configuration.

       Drawbacks:

• It is possible to have more than one enhancement per component configuration, and, additionally, the single enhancements may originate in different systems. With these possibilities there is the danger of losing the overall picture.
• For Support Package levels below 12 (NetWeaver 7.40), respectively below 16 (NetWeaver 7.31) some IDs of newly created elements such as pages (Overview Page Floorplan) mainsteps, substeps (Guided Activity Floorplan), main views, sub views (Object Instance Floorplan) contain a cumbersome 32-digit global unique identifier (GUID). See also SAP Note 1917681.
• For Release SAP NetWeaver 7.02: Corrections and improvements done by SAP will not reach the enhanced component configuration, since the enhancement is technically based on a copy of the original (so-called Delegation Enhancement).

Customizing and Personalization

Component configurations can be adapted on the basis of two additional layers:

• Customizing Layer:CUSTOMIZE_COMPONENT) and runtime (URL parameter SAP-CONFIG-MODE = X, plus context menu entry Settings for Current Configuration). For any FPM application that has been started in the Administration Mode (URL parameter SAP-CONFIG-MODE = X) specific buttons appear in the application header that leads you to WD application CUSTOMIZE_COMPONENT either addressing the Floorplan configuration or a GUIBB configuration . The smart thing about customizing is that it only contains the changed parts of the application (so-called delta-handling). At runtime, the original configuration is merged with the changes in the customizing layer.
• Personalization Layer. This contains individual settings for each individual user. A personalization can be made only during the runtime (context menu entry 'User Settings').

Note: This layer is mentioned only for completeness-sake. It is not relevant for the topic of this document and is not discussed further.

Figure 8 compares the different Web Dynpro ABAP adaptation techniques:

Figure 8: Configuration, Customizing and Personalization

       Advantages:

• Only the changed parts of the configuration are stored. Therefore, later changes or corrections to the original base configuration will be applied even to an adapted configuration. No additional effort is required compared to modifying the original object.
• Customizing is the best approach to fine-tuning an FPM application.

       Drawbacks:

• Customizing is restricted to component configurations; there is no way to customize code.
• In contrast to component configurations, it is not possible to create versions or copies as a kind of 'backup'.
• Customizing can be created even if there is no underlying component configuration. This might lead to semantic data inconsistencies during the FPM runtime if a corresponding component configuration is created at a later point.
• If a configuration is deleted, the Customizing delta remains in the database. This could lead to semantic data inconsistencies during the FPM runtime, as the delta might contain only fragments of the information needed to render the FPM application.

Modification

Modifying the original object is another option (changing an SAP-delivered component at configuration level. Modification is mentioned here only for completeness-sake and is not further discussed in this document.

       Advantages:

• Low initial effort and easy to understand.

       Drawbacks:

• After upgrade of the application or a support package, there is the risk that the modification is overwritten and has to be re-implemented.

Context-Based Adaptations (CBA)

Context-Based Adaptations is an adaptation concept that allows you to have adaptations based on the runtime environment. With CBA you have the option to create multiple adaptations of a single application and, at runtime the adaptation chosen is based on the current launch or runtime conditions.

       Advantages:

• Only the changed parts of the configuration are stored. Therefore, later changes or corrections to the original base configuration will be applied even to an adapted configuration. No additional effort is required compared to modifying the original object.
• You can have multiple adaptations in parallel and there is a mechanism to define which adaptation should be chosen at runtime.
• Most suitable for large, global, role-based projects.

       Drawbacks:

• Dynamic CBA (in which the adaptation is only determined at runtime based on the displayed data) normally requires some code adaptations. Therefore, it is often necessary to combine CBA with an enhancement.
• Concept work is required before implementation, e.g. defining a meaningful Adaptation Schema.

Options for Adaptations – Details

In this section, we will go step-by-step through the different adaptation options. We will also make the following simple adaptations to our FPM_DEMO_PLAYER_1 application:

• Simplify the application by removing the Tennis Player page

These changes can be made 'code-free' by adapting the Floorplan configuration FPM_DEMO_PLAYER_OVP

• Rearrange the form layout; put all fields below each other and remove the Previous and Next buttons.

These changes can be made 'code-free' by adapting the Form UIBB configuration FPM_DEMO_PLAYER_FORM_FOOTBALL_1

After the adaptations, the application should look like Figure 9:

Figure 9: Application at Runtime after the Adaptations

Copy Application

The Application Hierarchy Browser allows us to not only analyze the structure of an FPM-based application on different persistence levels (Configuration, Customizing, Context Based Adaptation), but to copy the configuration hierarchy too.

Therefore, let’s start Application Hierarchy Browser again via function and choose the Deep-Copy Mode. This will give you two more columns; the Copy checkbox column allows you to determine whether to copy a configuration or not, and the Target Configuration ID allows you to enter a name for the copied configuration (see Figure 10). Via function Change Affixes you may automatically apply a defined prefix or suffix of three characters.

Figure 10: Application Hierarchy Browser in Deep-Copy Mode

Now choose the Start Deep-Copy button; the system starts to create the new configurations. Provide a Package Name on the transport dialog. Once the deep-copy has been created you will have links in the 'Target Configuration ID' column which will navigate you to the editor environment for these configurations.

You may keep this window open for the rest of this section as we will use it later to launch the configuration editor.

Starting the Application

First, we will start the copied application. In the Application Hierarchy Browser, click the link that refers to the application configuration (in our example Z_FPM_DEMO_PLAYER_1) as shown in Figure 11.

Figure 11: Application Hierarchy Browser after Deep-Copy

Another window will open, displaying the copied application configuration. In the toolbar there is a Test button (see Figure 12 ). Click it to launch the application. It looks exactly like the original one in Figure 4. Close the application window.

Figure 12: Editor for Application Configuration Z_FPM_DEMO_PLAYER_1

Adapting the Floorplan Configuration

  Now let’s launch FLUID for the floorplan configuration by clicking on the corresponding link (in our example Z_FPM_DEMO_PLAYER_OVP) in the Application Hierarchy Browser (see Figure 11). Here, we want to remove the Tennis Player page. To do this, we make sure that the Navigation panel is visible. Choose the Navigation & Repositories toggle button (see Figure 13). In the Navigation panel, select the Tennis Player page and remove it via function .

Figure 13: Deleting the Tennis Player Page in FLUID

Save and restart the application. The screen looks less cluttered; the Page Selector dropdown listbox is no longer visible as, with only one page, it’s no longer needed. Close the window.

Figure 14: Demo Player Application after deleting the Tennis Player Page

Adapting the Form

To rearrange the form fields, let’s launch FLUID for the form configuration by clicking on the corresponding link (in our example Z_FPM_DEMO_PLAYER_FORM_FOOTBALL_) in the Application Hierarchy Browser (see Figure 11). Our task here is to delete the buttons and to put all fields in one column. We achieve this using Drag & Drop in the Preview panel (see Figure 15):

Figure 15: Form UIBB in FLUID – Rearranging the Fields

Select the row with the Previous and Next buttons and click the Delete button . Then move the fields from the left column by dragging and dropping them below the fields in the left column. Rearrange them so that Last Name field is located directly below the First Name field.

Save the application; we have completed our task. Refresh the application to see the changes as shown in Figure 9.

Customizing

Now let’s do the same adaptations but this time we do it on the Customizing level. Once inside the customizing environment, the required changes are made in the same way.

So let’s start by launching the application in Customizing mode:

1. Go to transaction SE80 and, using the toolbar button Other object… Shift+F5, select WD application configuration FPM_DEMO_PLAYER_1.
2. Start the application by selecting the following menu options in the main toolbar: Web Dynpro Configuration→Test→ Execute in Administration Mode (Shift+F8). The application looks exactly the same as it as it did previously but with two exceptions: there is yellow warning bar telling you that you are in Customizing mode, and there is a Customize Page button in the upper right corner of the application (see Figure 16).
3. Navigate to the Customizing editor (FLUID) by clicking this button.

Figure 16: Demo Player Application launched in Customizing Mode

Note: Alternatively, you can access the Customizing level directly from an application at runtime. Add the parameter sap-config-mode=X to the existing URL in the address bar of the browser window at runtime.

Adapting the Form

Our last task is the adaptation of the form. From the floorplan Customizing you can navigate directly to the form Customizing by selecting the form UIBB in the floorplan schema and clicking the Show Customizable Areas toggle button and jump into FLUID on customizing level with function (see Figure 17).

Figure 17: Navigating into the Form UIBB Editor

As you are using the same configuration editor as for the configuration, you can now execute the same steps as described for Adapting the Form in the previous section.

Enhancement

The third option is enhancement. Again, we will adapt the same configuration FPM_DEMO_PLAYER_OVP and also FPM_DEMO_PLAYER_LIST_FOOTBALL_1.

Before creating enhancements, you should decide whether you want this enhancement switchable or not. Switchable means that you can activate or deactivate it whenever you like. If you want to have it switchable, you should create your own package to put the enhancements in.

When you launch the above mentioned configurations in FLUID, make sure that you switch into the display mode by using the Cancel button. Then follow the menu path Additional Functions→ Enhance (see Figure 18).

Figure 18: Creating an Enhancement in FLUID

While creating the enhancements, the system asks you in which package the enhancement should be put. Enter your switchable package here, if you have created one. Afterwards, you can open the configuration editor for your enhancement and apply the changes in the same way as previously described.

The implemented enhancement corresponds to a workbench object that can be accessed via transaction SE80. This development infrastructure contains the following set of functions (very useful for developers):

• Version Management
• Assigned Switch and Switch Position
• Information about the referenced (enhanced) component configuration
• Changing Package Assignment
• Writing Transport  Entries
• XML that displays the changed parts (deltas) compared to the referenced object

This document is continued in Part 2.

Objective: Create OData from RFC and consume into UI5 application and run into local host of Eclipse.

Author Bio :

Name : Biplab  Ray

Company : TATA Consultancy Services

To achieve the target we should follow the bellow approach.

Step 1: Before we start to create our first OData, we should setup our system configuration.

First we have to set up a RFC connection to do so, execute t-code : SM59 and do the below settings.

Open the node ABAP Connections and create a new RFC connection for our application like below.

And provide required information as below.

And we will get a entry like below under node ABAP connection.

Now execute the t-code : spro and do the below configuration.

And make a entry like below for gateway hub connection.

To manage SAP system alias we have to execute below option of spro.

And we will make an entry like below.

And now execute t-code : sicf and make sure all the below node should be in active status.

Path : default_host -> sap -> opu

Now we are ready to create our first OData.

Step 2: Execute the t-code : segw and we will get screen like below.

Now press the create button to create our first project. And Provide required information.

Now our first project is created as below.

Step 3: Now we have to import our RFC as below.

In the wizard provide the below details:

Step 4: Now expand the SOHEADERDATA node and select the below fields.

Step 5: Now select field SO_ID as a key.

Step 6: Now we are going to create one more entity as above.

In the wizard please provide the below details.

Step 7: Now expand the node SOITEMDATA and select the below fields.

Step 8: Please select the key fields as below. And press Finish button.

Step 9: Now we could see the Entity Sets automatically get created as below.

And provide the name as below of entity set.

Step 10: Now we have to generate the necessary the run time artifacts.

Press the below button and leave the fields of the wizards as it came.

Step 11: Now we have to register and activate the service.

Open the node and select the system GW_HUB and press the register button.

And in the subsequent pop us do not change any configuration. And it would get registered. As above.

Step 12: Now press the button Gateway Client to test the application.

/sap/opu/odata/sap/ZGW100_XX_SO_SRV/$metadata and choose Execute.

Now we have to map our entity sets to our BAPI.

Step 13: Expand the node Service Implementation and right - click GetEntitySet(Query) and select Map to Data Source.

And provide the below information in the pop up.

Now we will get screen like below , where we have to do the mapping.

Now we have to do the mapping of the Read Query as above. And do the mapping as below.

In the pop up , please provide the details as below.

Now, we have to do the mapping.

Expand the Header Node and do the below mapping.

In any read operation, we require one input parameter, based on that read query would work.

For this we have to manually add a new line to the mapping screen.

Please click on the selected button and do the below configuration.

Please go to Part II of the document.

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Security researchers who have helped SAP to improve the security and integrity of our customers' IT systems by respecting our disclosure guidelines this month are:

February 2015

Biznet Bilisim, Deniz Cevik

ERPScan, Dmitry Chastuhin, Vahagn Vardanyan

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Hyundai AutoEver Europe GmbH, Ashar Javed

Jay Jani

Lawrence Amer

Onapsis, Emiliano Jose Fausto, Fernando Russ, Pablo Muller

Philips India. Ltd., Makkena Narendra

SaifAllah benMassaoud

Vinoth Kumar

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While performing the steps to install SAP Host Agent on Unix Platforms using the steps outlined in:

How to install the SAP Host Agent on Unix Platforms - Business Intelligence (BusinessObjects) - SCN Wiki
below errors were seen:

Symptoms:

1) Command: SAPCAR* -xvf SAPHOST*.SAR

OR

Command: SAPCAR* -xvf SAPHOSTAGENT207_207-20005731.SAR

Response: -bash: SAPCAR_721-20010450.EXE: command not found

2) Command: ./SAPCAR.sh -xvf SAPHOSTAGENT207_207-20005731.SAR

Response: -bash: ./SAPCAR.sh: Permission denied

3) Command: ./saphostexec -install

Response:

-----

Install service

sh: /usr/sbin/useradd: Permission denied

[Thr 140318646814496] Tue Dec 29 18:02:04 2015

[Thr 140318646814496] *** WARNING => useradd exit with status 126 [OsUtilux.cpp 404]

[ERROR]

Create user sapadm failed

-----

Environment:

• SAP BI Platform Support Tool 2.x
• SAPHOSTAGENT
• Linux

Solution:

1) With reference to the below error message mentioned above:

------

-bash: SAPCAR_721-20010450.EXE: command not found

------

please perform the below step:

1.a) mv SAPCAR_721-20010450.EXE SAPCAR.sh

Thereafter, attempt to execute the below command:

1.b) ./SAPCAR.sh -xvf SAPHOSTAGENT207_207-20005731.SAR

2) With reference to the below error message mentioned above:

------

-bash: ./SAPCAR.sh: Permission denied

------

please ensure that the folder in which SAPCAR.sh and SAPHOSTAGENT207_207-20005731.SAR exists has the read, write and execute permissions for the user who is executing the above mentioned relevant command.

3) With reference to the below error message mentioned above:

------

sh: /usr/sbin/useradd: Permission denied

[Thr 140318646814496] Tue Dec 29 18:02:04 2015

[Thr 140318646814496] *** WARNING => useradd exit with status 126 [OsUtilux.cpp 404]

[ERROR]

Create user sapadm failed

------

This error is indicative that you are not using root to install the agent or have not used sudo to get root access.  It is a one time requirement to install the SAP Host Agent with root access.  Post-install, the agent will run under the sapadm account (not as root)

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While trying to create a Workflow Rule which Sends Email Notifications that includes Surveys for Tickets and could see that there is no Place holder for Survey and in order to include a relevant field for the placeholder Survey, there are no relevant options.

Ideally to overcome this situation we can go ahead by following the below mentioned steps

1. In Fine Tuning, Create a Survey Category, e.g. “Customer Satisfaction”, of Type Satisfaction
   
   
2. Create a Survey of Category “Customer Satisfaction” and take note of the Survey ID.
   
3. Create a Workflow rule of Type EMail
   Define the condition (on save or scheduled) so that the email is sent when you prefer ( Example : 3days after the ticket is Completed)
   
   
4. Create an HTML EMail template, with a placeholder with the format #SURVEYID#
   Eg . #SURVEY2744#, if the ID of the customer satisfaction survey was 2744
   
   
5. In the Placeholder Mapping, map #SURVEY2744# to anything, it does not matter
   For e.g. you can map it to “Ticket ID” or “External ID” because the code will recognize the placeholder and replace it with a link
   
   

6. Now once the EMail is sent to the Customer , the system

• Generates an Instance of the Survey
• Generate the External Link
• Uses the generated link to replace the Place holder

7. You can use a href tag in your HTML template file  and replace the link with some generic Place holder

NOTE : This only works for Emails but not for Notifications

We have to install MDM in my company but when i have a look on documentation bout command to start and stop script, i see :

So I am not very happy with this

So i have devellop one :

mdmadm> ksh mdm_master help

usage: mdm_master action [option1] [option2]

action can be start, stop, status, repair, backup

#### start ####

if "mdm_master  start" without option, it will ask you confirmation before starting/mounting each repository.

if "mdm_master start ALL", it will start everything without asking confirmation.

if "mdm_master start ALL MOUNT", it will start everything and just mount repositories (no start on them).

#### stop ####

if "mdm_master  stop" without option, it will ask you confirmation before stopping/unmounting each repository.

if "mdm_master stop ALL", it will stop everything without asking confirmation.

if "mdm_master stop ALL MOUNT", it will just stop repositories and let them mounted.

#### repair ####

if "mdm_master  repair" without option, it will ask you confirmation before checking/repairing each repository.

if "mdm_master repair ALL", it will check/repair everything without asking confirmation.

#### backup ####

  if "mdm_master backup" without option, it will  backup of each repository without confirmation.

You need to configure config file for get some variable setup :

ORACLE_USER=
ORACLE_PASSWORD=
ADMIN_PASS_REPO=
DBHOST=
DBPORT=
ORACLE_HOME=
ORACLE_SID=
OS_USER=
OS_PASSWORD=
SYS_NUMBER_MDS=
SYS_NUMBER_MDIS=
SID_MDM=
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/sap/${SID_MDM}/MDS${SYS_NUMBER_MDS}/exe:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/sap/${SID_MDM}/MDIS${SYS_NUMBER_MDIS}/exe
LOGICAL_HOSTNAME=

As you can see, even if you have several repositories, script need only one password. In fact, if the Admin's password is not the password define in config file, script will setup it to the password define in the config file with clix repEmergencyAdminUserSetPassword command.

Please find config file and script  here :

mathieugravil-coding/shell/SAP/MDM at master · mathieugravil/mathieugravil-coding · GitHub

Some example :

mdmadm> ksh mdm_master start

ZJ2 is UP

SAP service /usr/sap/MDM/MDS10/exe/sapstartsrv is UP

SAP service /usr/sap/MDM/MDIS11/exe/sapstartsrv is UP

mds.sapMDM_MDS10 is UP

mdis.sapMDM_MDIS11 is UP

Used ports: 2015 2016 2017 2012 2013 2014 2009 2010 2011 2006 2007 2008 2003 2004 2005 2000 2001 2002

Repo to be mounted:

Repo already mounted but to be started: SRM_MDMTEST_REP SRM_MDM_DEV01_MAIN_MAS SRM_MDM_DEV_SRM7_MAS SRM_MDM_FIORI_DEV SRM_MDM_FIORI_QUAL TEST_TEMP

SRM_MDMTEST_REP SRM_MDM_DEV01_MAIN_MAS SRM_MDM_DEV_SRM7_MAS SRM_MDM_FIORI_DEV SRM_MDM_FIORI_QUAL TEST_TEMP

o Starting of repository :

Are you sure you want to start SRM_MDMTEST_REP  (yes/no)?yes

o I will try to start SRM_MDMTEST_REP :

  OK: repStart is done on SRM_MDMTEST_REP

Are you sure you want to start SRM_MDM_DEV01_MAIN_MAS  (yes/no)?no

Nothing done

Are you sure you want to start SRM_MDM_DEV_SRM7_MAS  (yes/no)?no

Nothing done

Are you sure you want to start SRM_MDM_FIORI_DEV  (yes/no)?no

Nothing done

Are you sure you want to start SRM_MDM_FIORI_QUAL  (yes/no)?no

Nothing done

Are you sure you want to start TEST_TEMP  (yes/no)?no

Nothing done

mdmadm> ksh mdm_master status

o STATUS OF DB :

ZJ2 is UP

o STATUS OF SAPSERVICES :

SAP service /usr/sap/MDM/MDS10/exe/sapstartsrv is UP

SAP service /usr/sap/MDM/MDIS11/exe/sapstartsrv is UP

o STATUS OF MDM SERVER  :

mds.sapMDM_MDS10 is UP

o STATUS OF MDM IMPORT SERVER  :

mdis.sapMDM_MDIS11 is UP

o STATUS OF REPOSITORIES  :

SRM_MDMTEST_REP # has status #STOPPED# and it use port #2000#.

SRM_MDM_DEV01_MAIN_MAS # has status #STOPPED# and it use port #2003#.

SRM_MDM_DEV_SRM7_MAS # has status #STOPPED# and it use port #2006#.

SRM_MDM_FIORI_DEV # has status #STOPPED# and it use port #2009#.

SRM_MDM_FIORI_QUAL # has status #STOPPED# and it use port #2012#.

TEST_TEMP # has status #STOPPED# and it use port #2015#.

mdmadm>  ksh mdm_master backup

BACKUP

o WARNING : Doing  backup on STARTED repo, could be not a good idea, but i will try to do it  for SRM_MDMTEST_REP :

o I will try to backup SRM_MDMTEST_REP in /usr/sap/MDM/MDS10/mdm/archives/SRM_MDMTEST_REP_160209.a2a :

  OK: cpyArchive is done on SRM_MDMTEST_REP

o I will try to backup SRM_MDM_DEV01_MAIN_MAS in /usr/sap/MDM/MDS10/mdm/archives/SRM_MDM_DEV01_MAIN_MAS_160209.a2a :

  OK: cpyArchive is done on SRM_MDM_DEV01_MAIN_MAS

o I will try to backup SRM_MDM_DEV_SRM7_MAS in /usr/sap/MDM/MDS10/mdm/archives/SRM_MDM_DEV_SRM7_MAS_160209.a2a :

  OK: cpyArchive is done on SRM_MDM_DEV_SRM7_MAS

o I will try to backup SRM_MDM_FIORI_DEV in /usr/sap/MDM/MDS10/mdm/archives/SRM_MDM_FIORI_DEV_160209.a2a :

  OK: cpyArchive is done on SRM_MDM_FIORI_DEV

o I will try to backup SRM_MDM_FIORI_QUAL in /usr/sap/MDM/MDS10/mdm/archives/SRM_MDM_FIORI_QUAL_160209.a2a :

  OK: cpyArchive is done on SRM_MDM_FIORI_QUAL

o I will try to backup TEST_TEMP in /usr/sap/MDM/MDS10/mdm/archives/TEST_TEMP_160209.a2a :

  OK: cpyArchive is done on TEST_TEMP

Enjoy !!!

Don't hesitate to make remarks !!