NW Java Security and User Management

Overview: For some specific scenarios, the official product documentation explicitly asks for a PSE to be created using the ‘sapgenpse’ command-line tool. This is not a common procedure since most SAP systems already provide a dedicated... Read More »

Purpose/Motivation While changing the parameter icm/HTTP/max_request_size_KB , I faced the issue as “SetProcessParameter failed :2 permission denied”.    Troubleshooting   I did a little digging to understand what it is... Read More »

SICF alternative on PI/PO single stack.   In case where customer sends us files on a dual stack, SICF is available to create service and shorten the long technical URLs with various security mechanisms. Which means something like... Read More »

I hope that this message already arrived at all places where SAP IDM 7.2 is still in use: the mainstream maintenance of SAP Identity Management version 7.2 will end at the end of this year (2018). See here the snipped from the official PAM (product... Read More »

Motivation Operating software like SAP IdM will increase the security of your it infrastructure, but can bring also dangers when implemented poorly/incorrectly. One of the biggest issues on this topic is the transport-security of the JDBC-layer;... Read More »

INTRODUCTION User account and authentication(UAA) is the process by which an application identifies a user, verifies his/her identity and then checks if he/she has the required permissions to access the application. This process is essential in... Read More »

Security Code Scan Assessment: To identify security threats, vulnerabilities in partners’ products and gain insight into the security of the partner software, SAP Integration and Certification Center (SAP ICC) together with the third party vendor... Read More »

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. – Hamlet, Hamlet to Horatio At Las Vegas TechEd 2017, the topic of cloud computing was center stage. For the enterprise and the SAP landscape, there... Read More »

By the end of 2018 SAP Identity Management 7.2 will run out of maintenance. And upgrading from 7.2 to 8.0 is more than just running several executables and you’re done. SAP highly recommends to plan your upgrade project right now due to several... Read More »

With all the ongoing changes in the business system environments of our customers, and SAP’s aspiration to become THE cloud company, it is good to know that SAP is constantly developing enhancements for our on-premise products as well. We in the... Read More »