Blogs posted November 2006

LATEST NEWS: This blog was replaced by the ABAP for Newbies page. Please use it for reading. ABAP’s history in brief When you program with ABAP on the application server, you profit from a range of services, which in other languages would... Read More »

Introduction I always felt excited when I read about new ABAP related tools. One of the first such tool I fell in love was the Code Inspector. Around in 2001-2002 we were on 46C, and in one for the Code inspector presentation I saw a note about,... Read More »

When I came across this thread  (lookup soap inside udf) on the XI forum, initially I thought that it would not be possible to call a Webservice from an user Defined Function. But then I started digging deep and voila I realized that SOAP... Read More »

1. INTRODUCTION TO ALE DEVELOPMENT Developing a new custom ALE scenario comprises 5 steps: Design and develop the custom IDoc with it’s segments and a new message type Configure the ALE environment with the new IDoc and message type (customer... Read More »

Execute conversion of logical system names (BDLS) in short time and in parallel – Intermediate During Homogeneous system copy from PROD to QAS environment, the most important step is to “convert logical system (LOGSYS) names” using... Read More »

Before we start, recommended read – Fault Message Type from SAP Help document. In this blog we will see how to configure a fault message for an asynchronous scenario and how it can be used in monitoring of the message flow. Note : An Extract... Read More »

With new SAP applications we get many standard ABAP proxy interfaces. These of course may not always suit all our needs for at least a few reasons: – they may include too many fields – they may not include some additional fields that... Read More »

Objective: In this Blog I would like to bring your attention to an excellent piece of work by Glenn Cheung and Ramond Leenders of www.vnsg.nl which will give a crash understanding of the LO cockpit. I will be covering the delta mechanism explained... Read More »

Another historic community moment… Chip Rodgers just posted the Video Blog of SAP TechEd ’06 Bangalore on SDN!! Yes from today you can  directly download video blogs here on the Community Network. Everyone can video blog. Just send us... Read More »

Many times I heard these questions: “How I can delete some selective data from my cube in my data load chain?” “How I can remove all the data from the source from which I’m loading data? I want to refresh and substitute... Read More »