SAP Change Non-Dialog User to Dialog User Using Function Module
Scenario: The DDIC account is locked in a SAP system.You don’t know the password to DDIC, and to get access as SAP* you would need to bounce the system, which is not acceptable during this period of...
View ArticleSolman 7.1 LMDB vs SMSY Row Count Mismatch
Scenario: From transaction LMDB in Solman 7.1, you can run variaous validation checks against the LMDB.One of these validates the number of logical components in the LMDB versus the old SMSY.When I ran...
View ArticleHowTo: Delete Multiple Workmodes ABAP - Solution Manager 7.1
Scenario: You’ve setup lots of work modes and assigned them to lots of SAP systems and lots of databases.However, you now would like to remove them all.Unfortunately the only method provided by SAP to...
View ArticleSAP Applications – Daylight Saving to Standard Time
On the outset, this seems like something that should have been covered plenty of times before. However, you’d be surprised at the complexity of this simple operation.We’re going to go through the...
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HowTo: Install SAP HANA 2.0 in a VM in less than 30minutes - Part #1
For the original post back in 2014 we used SAP HANA 1.0 sps07 and installed into a Virtual Machine running SUSE Linux 11.Things have moved on since 2014 and we have now seen the arrival of HANA 2.0...
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HowTo: Install SAP HANA 2.0 in a VM in less than 30minutes - Part #2
This is the second part of a three part post on how to install an SAP HANA 2.0 database into a SUSE Linux for SAP 12 SP3 virtual machine.See Part #1 here.During the VM start-up you may be prompted by...
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HowTo: Install SAP HANA 2.0 in a VM in less than 30minutes - Part #3
This is the third part of my (quite large) post on how to install an SAP HANA 2.0 database into a SUSE Linux for SAP 12 SP3 virtual machine.See Part #1 of the post here.See Part #2 of the post here.We...
View ArticleForcefully Prevent HANA Tenant DB From Starting
Scenario: Your HANA system is having some serious memory problems.In the memory you have remaining you can’t get the SYSTEM database to run, so you can’t stop a particular tenant database.Here’s how...
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Downloading SAP Download Basket Contents in the Cloud on Linux
Scenario: You've made the move to the cloud. You are about to install some SAP software on a new Linux server hosted in the cloud and you just need to get the installation media uploaded.Except, you...
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When SLES for SAP is not SLES for SAP
I recently downloaded and installed "SUSE Enterprise Linux for SAP 12 SP3" into a local virtual machine.It seemed to contain everything that I thought it would contain with regards to included SAP...
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Recovery From: Operation start is not allowed on VM since the VM is...
Scenario: In Azure you had a Linux virtual machine. In the Azure portal you clicked the "Capture" button in the Portal view of your Linux virtual machine, now you are unable to start the virtual...
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Blogger Blog: List Posts By Label
If, like me, you have a blog which is hosted on the Google Blogger platform, you may have realised that there's a lot of features missing, which you get on other platforms such as Wordpress.I...
View ArticleSUSE Linux 12 - Kernel 4.4.73 - Boot Hang - BTRFS Issue
I had a VMWare guest running SUSE Linux 12 SP3 64bit (kernel 4.4.73).One day after a power outage, the VM failed to boot.It would arrive at the SUSE Linux "lizard" splash screen and then just hang.I...
View ArticleDB2 10.1 fp4 ICC Error
Scenario: After applying DB2 10.1 fp4 and trying to backup the database, we were seeing an ICC Error in the log:2014-11-03-15.31.41.864652+000 I15689A2279 LEVEL: Error PID : 18481304 TID : 1 PROC :...
View ArticleSAP ABAP Tools in Eclipse - ACM_UNEXPECTED_VALUE
Scenario: You've installed the SAP ABAP Tools in Eclipse and you're trying to browse the catalog in a SAP Netweaver system.You keep getting an error prompt which contains the error...
View ArticlePassword-less SAP ASE Database Access
Like most companies you will have the need to automate specific database tasks directly in the database.As an example, frequent database backups.Within SAP ASE databases, if you have an attached ABAP...
View ArticleGenerate HMAC for Azure Storage from KSH
Generating an Azure HMAC Signature for calling Azure Storage Services from KSHWhile custom writing an Azure Storage Service blob deletion script, I experienced a problem using the OpenSSL method for...
View ArticlePowershell PSCredential - Exception calling .ctor with 2 arguments
Scenario: You are using Powershell with "System.Management.Automation.PSCredential" to capture credentials to an encrypted file using "ConvertFrom-SecureString".You are then trying to read those...
View ArticleKorn Shell vs Powershell and the New AZ Module
Do you know Korn and are thinking about learning Powershell?Look at this:function What-am-I { echo "Korn or powershell?"}what-am-iecho $?Looks like Korn, but it also looks like Powershell.In actual...
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New - SAP Notes Dependency Browser
Speed up SAP note implementation analysis using this new feature.It's difficult analysing a myriad of SAP notes for implementation.You always end up deep in multiple SAP note dependency levels, and...
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