Blogs posted July 21, 2011

Welcome at the SAP on IBM i weekly update! This time I’d like to point to our documentation. Installation Guides I am sure you went through this: After having purchased a brand new device you try to get it run. But documentation... Read More »

There seems to be some misunderstanding of what the different types of archiving is. I therefore have decided to create a video where I talk about the differences between them. Hopefully it will clear some of the misunderstanding. I see that there... Read More »

I have been doing SAP Data Archiving the old-fashioned way for quite some time. Submitting a job and watching it run and waiting for it to complete.  It is the equivalent of watching a pot of water and waiting for it to boil – “a... Read More »

Hello all,   If you have a requirement for a Crystal Report to allow the end user to change the grouping interval on a date or datetime field (to intervals like Monthly, Weekly, Quarterly…) then the following 3 steps should... Read More »

Last week I was in our nation’s capital as a tourist (yes, again). Museums, monuments, and meditation were on offer. While I did do quite a bit with the first two, I was not quite ready for the third and hence did not attend the sessions... Read More »

Do you know this problem – you operate several SAP backend systems and you should check in regular intervals that no important background jobs are canceling in the respective backend?! If you don’t use some automated monitoring tool... Read More »

Introduction Descriptions – or “modeling” – of system landscapes are based on some entities called Products, Product Instances, and Software Components. These terms and the model entities they describe, turn up in... Read More »

The chief root cause analysis tool that comes with remote support component is the Wily Introscope Enterprise Manager. Once remote support component and Wily have been installed and configured in the SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 3.1... Read More »

When it comes to staffing, retailers have a difficult task – they must maximize employee utilization, minimize labor costs, and ensure acceptable customer wait times at checkout. Managing employee “supply” while meeting customer... Read More »