SAP Netweaver AS ABAP 7.52 (dev install) How to update license with SAP* locked and license expired

[luis_pinho]

Hi all,

I usually "manage" our local SAP system that is being used for testing some integration scenarios.

Every several months I update the license using the slicense transaction.

Unfortunately, I've been away from my company for several months and they reported that the SAP was down.

I checked and the license expired, the usual solution is to login with SAP* user and do the same as always.

But, it seems that someone from my team, while trying to help, locked the SAP* user because he was sure that the password was Download (instead of Down1oad), so, I'm stuck 😞 and all the SAP integration tests are also stuck.

Is there any way to work around this?

- Reset the number of failed login attempts for SAP* user using a command line?

- Run sql script against sybase db to reset something?

- Another special user that doesn't require a license check (besides SAP*)

- Other solution that doesn't involve having to do a new installation...

Summary:

How to update the license when:

- License is expired

- SAP * is locked due to an excessive number of failed logins

Thank you for your time and patience,

Luís Pinho

[luis_pinho · Accepted solution]

Hi S Sriram,

We are unable to access the database, we don't have the password, I also tried that (isql).

After several hours of trying different solutions, a user on reddit was able to send me in the correct direction (saplikey), then a random page online, told me the final hint (I have to set the pf parameter in order of this to work).

So this was the solution (I only had 1 license so "*" is ok):

saplikey pf=NPL -delete "*" "*" "*"

Followed by:

saplikey pf=NPL -install npl.txt

Thanks,

Luís Pinho

[Sriram2009]

Hi Luis

1. Unlock the SAP* user-id at the database level, you have to share the details of DB?

2. Once the user id is unlocked other steps known to you

Regards

SS