Blogs posted February 2007

I am going to present a quick guide to replicate material master from backend system to SRM 5.0, including all the BASIS(BC) activities, I would like to highlight that the system has the latest patch level and support packages installed, so here we... Read More »

The Part I of Workflows Introduction gives the basic details about the workflow usage as a tool and the features involved. In Part II, the details about the workflow builder will be covered. In the subsequent parts, more details about the runtime... Read More »

Java Message Service(JMS) defines a standard message API (Java API) for reliable and robust Enterprise Messaging. In other words, JMS facilitates a simple, yet very powerful communication between different software components or applications. ... Read More »

SAP Solution Manager Development has received many customer requests to add new object types to the tabs of transactions SOLAR01, SOLAR02 and SOLMAN_DIRECTORY. Although we have added some new object types, we could not satisfy all requests, because... Read More »

Imagine the following situation: An important customer had been using your program without complaints until last week, when he had to process a very large contract with 20.000 positions. The customer was very disappointed, because this contract took... Read More »

The use of the PayloadZipBean is tricky. I will show you a scenario where an XI message goes to a receiver file adapter. Here the payload is converted to a flat structure and the codepage is changed to ISO-8859-1 and then zipped. With using... Read More »

My Statistical Records Part 1: Inside STAD [1] introduced the statistical records of an ABAP application server. This time I would like to talk about the internal structure of the statistical records. As an example the RFC records are introduced.... Read More »

Many people on the XI forum are asking about the command line utility (which is available with some adapters – like File/FTP adapter for example). In this weblog I’m going to present two very simple scenarios with which using command... Read More »

In some cases, when releasing the WL, the task to be executed (mass retirement, mass transfer or mass substitution) is not completed and no errors are displayed indicating the cause of the problem. This makes it hard to identify the correction... Read More »

Maximize Return on SAP Investment by reducing TCO – Use SAP TCO Models  Introduction:   In today’s world of reduced budgets, the demand to control cost must be balanced with the imperative to be responsive to business... Read More »