I love the way SAP designed the data model for the SAP Data Services database. As you can read in this blog the tables and fields are quite easy to understand and the relation between tables is quite clear. I’m telling you this because there are times when you have to modify data without using SAP […]
GDPR and SAP Systems
The GDPR (https://www.eugdpr.org/) is almost here! For those of you who doesn’t know about the GDPR let me give you a quick description: The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a regulation approved by the EU Parliament on 14th April 2016. The GDPR intention is to enforce, strengthen and unify data protection for all individuals within the […]
Checking the SAP Java key phrase and more
The last weeks I have been working on a project migrating SAP system to new hosts on Azure. Lot of the tasks of this project involve system installation and system copy from the old infrastructure to the new one. So it should be no surprise that I have to do a system copy of a […]
SAP GUI: Performance issues with Windows 1709
Since a two months ago I’ve noticed that the performance on SAP GUI 7.50 is getting worse. When I restart my computer everything works correctly but after a couple of days working the SAP GUI becomes unusable. I tried a lot of different things to fix this: Reinstalled completely the SAP GUI, even in a […]
Detailed system information on Linux with sapsysinfo
You probably are familiar with this topic if you had a problem related to a SAP system running on Linux operating system. SAP released long time ago the SAP Note 618104 – “sapsysinfo” – Compiling system information on Linux. This SAP note contains a script for Linux named sapsysinfo that gather a lot of information of the […]
Tuning SAP Applications for SLES with SAPTUNE
If you have installed any SAP product before and if you did it right you probably read some documents and SAP Notes before starting. Many of those SAP Notes are related to OS and DB tuning. I can’t stress hard enough how important is to read the available documents before starting a system installation. Lot […]
SAP Lumira 2.X: Upgrading and migrating documents
I know that the topic of the month is Meltdown and Spectre. I am currently working on a post related to both vulnerabilities and how they affect SAP but for the moment I bring you some news about SAP Lumira. If you now SAP BusinessObjects is almost impossible that you don’t know about SAP Lumira. […]
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SAP BI Semantic Layer: Changes and errors on SAP BO 4.2 SP4
It’s been a long time since the last time I posted on the Blog. A lot of things have changed during this month and a half. Anyway, I wanted to write about a problem I had during the last few days while programming a Java application for working with a SAP BusinessObjects system using the […]
WPA2 encryption protocol cracked by KRACK Attack
Today’s most import new in the IT field could be the one related to the break of the WPA2 protocol for the Wi-Fi networks using the KRACK Attack. I’m pretty sure you already read about it on newspaper, social media or news website but I always thing is important to spread this kind of news […]