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Multiple SAP systems in MSCS with Oracle

Hello,
We are going to install a BI instance in a MSCS cluster in which there is already a SAP system installed and clustered.
The SO is Windows 2008 and Oracle 10.2.0.4.
My problem is about the Oracle sw. In previous SAP releases there was a guide called "Installation of Multiple SAP systems in MSCS: Oracle".
For my release Netweaver 7.0. EHP1 SR1, there is no specific guide. All the references are the installation guide and part related to MSCS installation and a white paper about "new configuration of multiple SAP systems with Windows 2008 Failover Clustering".
In all that documents I haven't found what to do with the database. In the beginning of the installation documents says that Multiple Oracle_home for different database instances are not supported in an MSCS configuration. But in the pages related to the MSCS installation says "if required, set up multiple Oracle Homes".
So, what's the option? Multiple Oracle_homes or MCOD? Be in mind that I already have a SAP system in this cluster, so I already have an Oracle home c:\oracle\<SID>\102
Have you work in this scenario?
Thanks and best regards,
Ana.

Hi,
Officially SAP does not support Multiple SAP Systems in One MCSC Cluster. If such installation & configuration has been done by SAP Global Technology Partner then and then only SAP provide support.
what's the option? Multiple Oracle_homes or MCOD?
GO for multiple oracle_home , in which the same drive letter for oracle_home should be used on local disks in both MCSC cluster nodes. And the same oracle_home should be junctioned to the shared location on shared space.
The Chapter 7 High Availability with Microsoft Cluster Service of [Inst. Guide SAP NetWeaver 7.0 incl. EHP1 SR1|http://service.sap.com/~form/sapnet?_SHORTKEY=01100035870000659894&_OBJECT=011000358700000353072009E] contains all the required information with detail. Refer it.
Regards,
Bhavik G. Shroff

New to sap, play with .rpt reports

Hi,
I have downloaded a trial crystal report 2013 and I would like to play with some reports are running on our system but in order to don't destroy them, I want to know the next points:
How identify the version of the actual file report file .rpt or the crystal report version was made, i would like to keep the original version all the time or during the test process.
some reports are working in our system that i will make a backup for them, the question is if something is wrong with the test report, the restoration to the original state should be replace the test file for the backup file into the original folder? do we need to stop the server first? what important considerations we need take before replace a file or after replacing a file.
For the viewer of reports, do we need an additional software? we have one viewer for the actual reports but I would like to have an additional viewer for the test process, Do we?.
if you need more info about the actual system we have please let me know.
I think for the moment answering the last questions i will be able to select the right version and create a backup before testing reports.
I will appreciate a response for it

Hi Emilio
How identify the version of the actual file report file .rpt or the crystal report version was made, i would like to keep the original version all the time or during the test process.
There is no "out of the box" way of determining what version of CR the report was created in. There are APIs in .NET and Java that will tell you this, but then you'd have to create an app your self. Alternatively, download the attached app created by Don WIlliams. When you open the report in this app, it will tell you what version of the designer the report was created in (note: After you download
the file, unzip it and rename to .exe):
Note 2: You may have to install the 4.0 framework before the above app will run.
some reports are working in our system that i will make a backup for them, the question is if something is wrong with the test report, the restoration to the original state should be replace the test file for the backup file into the original folder? do we need to stop the server first? what important considerations we need take before replace a file or after replacing a file.
I don't understand. If you have a back up, why would you want to do a "restoration"? Note that restoring the report and saving it will save it as version 14.1 and there is no Save as version X.
For the viewer of reports, do we need an additional software? we have one viewer for the actual reports but I would like to have an additional viewer for the test process, Do we?.
There is a number of viewers:
1) There is a viewer in the CR designer.
2) You can download the free viewer that looks much like the viewer in the designer (but it will not let you change db connections or modify the report). Download link:
SAP Crystal Reports viewer | Crystal Solutions| Business Intelligence | SME | SAP
3) You can create your own app in .NET or Java and these SDKs have their own viewers.
4) SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform (BO Enterprise) has it's own viewers.
5) SAP Report Application Server has viewers.
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Problem with Send and Receive Emal In SAP System

Hi gurus!
I have a following quote:
Dear !
I have a problem with send and receive email in SAP system following :
I want to test send and receive email in local network at my company. I
had two server
Server 1 : I setup Exchange Mail Server 2007 with domain controller is
fes.com
Server 2 : I setup SAP ERP ECC 6.0
On Server 1 : I created 2 account ( u1Afes.com and u2Afes.com ) and then I tested send and receive email between u1 and u2 in local network through Microsoft Outlook 2007 -> OK
and then
On Server 2: I had configured send and receive email on SAP system
through tcode SBWP, SCOT and SOST as Note 455140 - "Configuration of
e-mail, fax, paging or SMS using SMTP"
for example :
I logged in SAP system with user Basis01 (with email u1Afes.com ) -> then,using tcode SBWP -> new message -> send to u2Afes.com with Internet Mail type and then status message with green light -> sending ok
and then I have used Microsoft Outlook 2007, I logged with account u2 ->check email -> Ok. I saw message which send from u1
Finally, My problem is how can receive mail in SAP system without using Microsoft Outlook
For example:
Login system SAP with Basis01 account (with u1Afes.com ) -> tcode SBWP ->New Message -> send to u2Afes.com
and then
Login system SAP with Basis02 account (with u2Afes.com ) -> tcode ??? ->
To receive email from Basis01 (with u1Afes.com )
Please help me now
Thanks
I replace "@" with "A" because of banning email of this forum.
This quote is about sending email in local network. And we can't receive any email from the outside email address. Addition if I wanna send email to internal email in Internet (we've just tried with email address in local network) What should I config in SAP and Exchange ?
By the way, Is SAP Server IP added to Relay Agent for sending or receiving mail ?
Regards
An NLP
Edited by: An NLP on Apr 6, 2010 7:03 PM

Hi,
This problem is a classic problem of mail routing via Exchange. Exchange like most mail servers use the domain part of the email address as a means to route mails. So I will make an assumption that your main company mail addrss is "User @ fes.com".
So when you send a mail to the "User @ fes.com mail" address the mail is delivered to your Outlook mail address as this is the default route for company.
(Q) So how do you get your Exchange server to relay the mail into the sending SAP system?
(A) The easiest way would be to setup and unique mail domain for your SAP system. I always recommend "user @ client.sid.company.com" which in your case would be "u1 @ 100.PRD.fes.com". You can then instruct Exchange to send any emails addressed to 100.PRD.fes.com domain to your SAP system. Also using this format of address you can configure multiple mail connections into multiple SAP systems.
(A) Another answer would be to enter the "Full" email address (LOcal and Domain part of address) into the routing rule for Exchange e.g. "U1 @ fes.com" so that all emails addressed to this user will be delivered into SAP. However this method requires a lot of Admin as you will have to update Exchange with ALL email address that need to receive emails. Also if your corporate mail address is "U1 @ fes.com" then all mails will be forwarded to SAP.
I would definitely NOT recommend this method but the decision is up to you.
P.S. The IP address of the SAP system is entered into the mail header of the email. This is standard practice in SMTP relay. You can suppress this header in Exchange
Hope this helps
Michael

System copy from SAP R/3 47x110 with Oracle 10.2 to Oracle 11.2

Hello,
I want to do a system copy from SAP R/3 4.7 Enterprise 47x110 with Oracle 10.2 to a new machine with same SAP version but with oracle 11.2. (After this I will upgrade to ERP 6.0)
I will do this with export/import but I don't find any documentation (manuals or notes).
I only find this:
Note 1499877 - Oracle 11.2 for R/3 Enterprise 4.7 Ext. Set 1.10
but this note is only for a new installation, I don't know if this work with system copy
Note 516246 - INST- System Copy for SAP Systems based on SAP Web AS 6.20
This don't have information about oracle 11.2
I read the manual "Homogeneous and Heterogeneous System Copy for SAP® Systems Based on SAP Web Application Server 6.20" but this also don't say nothing about oracle 11.2
Can you help me? Where can I find this documentation and what DVDs (master and kernel) should I use?
Best regards

Hi Juan,
Thanks for your answer.
That is my doubt, what installation master shoud I use for export oracle 10.2 and import in oracle 11.2?
Note "1499877 - Oracle 11.2 for R/3 Enterprise 4.7 Ext. Set 1.10" say that I can use installation master of R/3 4.7 Set 2 (47x200) to install a new system.
I found this media:
51033746_9 Installation Master 6.20/6.40 Linux on x86_64 64bit
and
51040087_7 NW 04 SR1 Inst. Mst. Linux x86_64 64bit f. Oracle 10.2/11.2
I think this is the note that I need:
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Issue with Chinese characters while sending IDOCs from PI to SAP system

Hi,
We are working on File to IDOC scenario where in some of the fields are having Chinese characters. In SAP system, we noticed that the Chinese characters are getting replaced with # where as in PI output payload we are able to see the correct Chinese characters. The systems involved are PI 7.4 and SAP ECC -6.0.

Like in dual stack where we have an option to choose unicode/ non-unicode, i don't see any option in single stack.
However not sure if it works but you can give a try..
I assume you have created the RFC destination in NWA.
Go to RFC destination ->Specific Data -> Advanced Settings - here we have an option to mention the code page.
You might want to mention the code page for chinese char and see if it helps..
Before doing this, do checkMark's suggestion.

Help File to Be Integrated with Sap System

Dear sir
Please get me how to integrate the help file[ERP 2004 help ] with SAP System. I M Not able to get the help from the system the error it throw is no document available i want the help of .chm file so is there any way to integrate that file with SAP system so that we can cget help from sap system itself
I m Using ECC 5.0
Regards
Ashish

you can place (install) the help files on any machine you want, at least it has a web server on it.
you can then specify the "Server Name" and "Path" in SR13 to this server (e.g. Server Name = mywebserver.mycompany.com:1080, Path = helpdata)
the clients open the associated program to the extension of the files (in case of .chm and .html it would be most likely the Internet Explorer)
kr, achim
check this link: https://websmp106.sap-ag.de/~sapdownload/011000358700002110712004E/SAPLibInstGuide_640_EN.pdf
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Quick Adress System (QAS) integration with SAP

Hi,
Can anybody please let me know how the Quick Address System can be integrated with the SAP.
It iwll be great if any of you [please forward me the documentation or installation guide for this integration.
Also, after proper integration of QAS, how can i acces it in SAP system. Is there any t.code or something like this? Plz provide any of the solution on it asap.
Best regards
Gaurav

Hi Gaurav
I'm the developer of the SAP QuickAddress Solution.
There are 2 main categories of SAP QuickAddress integration these being
SAP Certified Solution (GUI)
Non-Certified soultion (GUI)
The SAP Certified version hooks in via the BADI ADDRESS_CHECK, there is no need to change any SAP standard code or screen. Simply go into any address screen (eg BP) try and modify an address and you should get a popup if the address was invalid or incorrectly formated.
The non-certified version is similar to the certified but you would have to change code and screen, the advantage of this version is that it can integrate into any screen.
When you buy this software QAS normally come out on site and install and demo the software, I assume they haven't done this. If you want documentation give them a call (www.qas.com).
All QAS objects (ie transactions, tables, etc) are under the namespace /QAS/, search under this and you should find what you want.
NB: There will also be a ABAP Webdynpro version of this software available soon
Regards
Muntazir Khan

App.server load balancing for SAP System with 1 PS

Hi,
In SAP CPS 7.0 (Build M26.12) I have a SAP system with Central Instance + 10 App.servers, but all instances are managed by 1 ProcessServer.
After activating the "App.server load balancing" setting in SAP system definition the application servers are becoming visible in CPS with their load factors (number of BGD wp's on app.servers) and load numbers (number of active jobs on app.servers).
This is so far fine, but the additional functionality is not working as I would expect, I have issues with 2 functionalities:
1. Based on documentation after activating also the XAL connection the CPS should submit the job on app.server with best performance based on XAL monitoring data filling the TARGET_SERVER parameter.
This functionality is not working for me at all
2. A useful functionality after activating the "App.server load balancing" setting is that the ProcessServer is going to "Overloaded" status when all BGD wp's of SAP system are occupied, thus restricting submitting new jobs during overload situation. But I had an issue also with this functionality, after SAP system recovery from overload situation, the CPS still remained in Overload status (so no new jobs were submitted).
As a workaround I had increased the treshold values for loads on all app.servers for this SAP system, what was fine for several days, but after a while I believe this was a reason of unexpected performance issues in CPS, therefore I have deactivated the 'App.server load balancing" setting at all for this ProcessServer.
I would appreciate your feedbacks with this functionality.
Thanks and Regards,
Ernest Liczki

Hi Preetish,
This connect string option is to loadbalance RFC connections. These are balanced upon login, once you are connected to a particular application server (AS) you stay on that server until you reconnect.
Since CPS uses multiple RFC connections, this will result in the connections being distributed over the available AS resources which is fine as long as they are generally evenly loaded. If you have certain AS hosts that are continuosly more loaded than the rest, then you probably don't want the CPS RFC connections to end up on these servers.
The original question is about loadbalancing of batch jobs over the available AS resources, and this is done independent of the RFC connection load balancing. Even if all CPS RFC connections are pinned to the DB/CI host, you can still loadbalance jobs over the available SAP AS hosts, either by using SAPs builtin balancing, or the CPS algorithm by activating the checkbox as indicated in the first entry in this thread.
Finally, to reply to Ernest's question: I believe there are some fixes on the app load balancing in the latest release, M26.17 should be available on the SWDC now.
Regards,
Anton.
Edited by: Anton Goselink on May 29, 2009 9:06 PM

Multiple SAP Systems with one Unique ID

Hi,
SAP recommend to have <sidadm> and <sapserviceSID> user account for each system.
Currently we create domain users for each SAP System. We are installing many test servers and trying to see if I can avoid creating domain user account for each system and use only one account to administer all test sap systems.
Just wanted to know if there is any way to have one domain SIDADM user id and one domain SAPService user account to run multiple test SAP systems?
Thanks,

Hi,
Multiple test system you have different SID. so you must use different SAPserviceSID user. But you can use one SIDADM user with the proper permission with other test systems.
I have used in OS400 environment with single SIDADM user id.
please check with users with permission sap notes or document.
But SAP not recommanded this.
Thanks and Regards,
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Fall back systemwhen multiple SAP systems trying to acheive SSO with BOEXI

Friends,
I need a small clarification on ' SSO between BOE XI 3.1 and SAP BI 7' Scenario,
Say when multiple users log on through their SAP EP Portals or Netwever Portals, they use their tokens generated by their respective EP portals which are passed through the 'Web application server' hosting BOE environment.
1) When its a Single EP portal , we can have have a fall back system. when we register its logical name in the CMC of BOE Environment , a typical SNC.But what's the fall back system for multiple SAP systems?
2) Also Whether there are any pit falls via token method when more than one SAP system communicating to BOE?
3) Do we have any documentation for this?
Thanks ,
Sivakanth.

Hi Sivakanth,
the normal scenario for SSO is the following:
When you said ''back end system ', i did not get it.
Enterprise Portal -
(iView)-------> BOE -
> SAP BI <- This is your backend system
Well Could I define more than one logical name there in SNC tab of CMC.?
I assume you have the following situation:
(EP1, EP2, EP3) -
> BOE -
> (SAP BI 1, SAP BI 2, SAP BI n)
You can define more than one entitlement systems in the BOE CMC and also configure for each one of them for SNC. Please note that we are talking about server trust and NOT client trust here. It is all about letting your sap system and the boe system trust each other. If you have your portal with client SNC configured (ie. the user logs using a certificate and an SAP logon ticket is created) it is NOT necessary to configure SNC in the CMC (Please refer to the section "Configuring SAP Server-Side Trust" in the installation guide for the integration kit for SAP) side.
Back to the SSO scenario now: When a user connects from an enterprise portal on the BOE system the logon ticket, generated from the portal, is forwarded to the back-end system, which is defined in the portal iView the user is currently navigating through. If it is a Crystal Enterprise iView then you just have to select the appropriate system alias of your back-end system in the System drop down menu when creating the iView. For URL iViews you must utilize the relevant openDocument parameters. If you do not define anything at all when creating the iView then BOE tries to authenticate the logon ticket against the SAP BI system you selected to be the default one in the "Authentication->SAP->Options" tab of the CMC.
If what you want is just to distribute the load between your SAP back-end systems then you should consider utilizing an SAP cluster for your pursposes. As explained before BOE will not distribute the requests evenly on the back-end systems. It will try to contact either the system defined in the request (iView) or the default system. To be honest I am not sure what happens if the explicitely defined system is not available but I think that an error message is what you should expect then. I do not think that in this case the BOE system tries to use the system defined as default.
Another part is what kind of security is defined in BEX querys..as i read from SAP IK guide, we can import all the roles which are defined at ABAB level.
Will there be any security threats to SAP data via this method.
It is true that you can import all roles in your BOE system. But keep the following four things in mind:
1) You can restrict on the BOE side the users which are authorized to logon in the CMC and import the roles (normally only the BOE administrator is authorized to do this)
2) Importing a role means that an SAP user can try to logon the BOE. Still the logon process can only be succesfull only if the SAP user has special authorization on the SAP side (Please check the Appendix "Authorizations" in the installation guide of the integration Kit for SAP.
3) You can restrict the access to data by assigning authorizations only for specific infoareas/infoproviders. In order to partially restrict data access in a given infoprovider (e.g infocube or multiprovider) you can utilize authorization variables in your BW query.
4) You can further restrict access on specific reports either on the BOE side or on the portal side (by rstricting access to the defined iViews).
For sure you must invest some time to define and implement your security concept.
More over could you please answer other 2 questions in my original question.
2) Also Whether there are any pit falls via token method when more than one SAP system communicating to BOE?
3) Do we have any documentation for this?
2) As long as your portals, the back-end systems and your BOE system are configured correctly for SSO this should not be a problem. Well just a tip based on my experience: be sure to use full qualified domain names for your systems in the iView definitions. And do not forget SSO works only if all systems are in the same domain.
3) As said in my previous posting the netweaver documentation regadring SSO setup maybe interesting for you. As far as I know the multiple systems scenario is not contained explicitely in any official BOBJ documentation. I assume that you already went through the installation guide for the integration kit for SAP.
Please tell me if you have a completely different scenario in mind
Regards,
Stratos
Edited by: Efstratios Karaivazoglou on Mar 22, 2009 12:27 AM

Using same Wildcard certificate on multiple SAP systems with same domain name.

Hello All,
Need urgent help.
I have a WILDCARD SSL certificate in pfx format. I also have individual root certificate , primary certificate in text form.
The certificate mentioned above is already active in one of our portal.
We want the same certificate on ECC Production.
What are the steps to import this certificate in STRUST?
I believe no certificate response needs to be imported.
I have a certificate response provided by Verisign. But STRUST says- cannot import certificate response'
Please help.

Hi,
This is what i did for installing wildcard certificates:
On the OS of the sap server, log in with the sapadm account.
Open a command prompt:
make a backup of your sec directory in drive:\usr\sap\<SID>DVEBMGS00\ (just to be sure)
cd to drive:\usr\sap\<SID>DVEBMGS00\exe
>sapgenpse.exe import_p12 =p SAPSSLS.PSE location\to\the\certfile.pfx
It will ask you for the pin, and to overwrite the file, answer yes.
Now copy the new SAPSSLS.PSE to a desktop that has sapgui
Login with the sapgui and run transaction strust
Select import from the PSE menu and open the SAPSSLS.PSE
Then again goto PSE menu and select Save As
I saved it twice, once in System PSE and then again in SSL Server
For me SSL is now working without problems on a couple of servers.
-small update-
You can check internal servers using the certificate utility from digicert https://www.digicert.com/util/
It has the option to specify port numbers, usefull for internal web services.
Regards,
Rolf

Sending e-mails between different SAP-Systems with SMTP

Hello,
I want to send e-mails between two different internal SAP-Systems. I already configured SMTP in both systems but ist not possible to send an e-mail from system A to system B. I've got following error message:
Cannot process message; no node determined for <sapuser>:
Thanks in advance & best regards,
Christoph

Hi Christoph,
but it is possible that the email for user from System B is also available in the system itself(transaction so01) and not only in his outlook inbox?
As the email is sent from System A. It will be available under SOST of system A.
As user in System B is receiving the email, it will be appearing in users inbox.
Check with Mail server administrator on where to enable SMTP relaying for IP address of SAP server.
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I have an ipad mini 1st gen 64 gb (wifi only) and i have problem with some of my apps. These apps have lags when you play with them for a few seconds the apps are having lags are call of duty strike team, gta San Andreas and nfs most wanted.pleas help me

I have an ipad mini 1st gen 64 gb (wifi only) and i have problem with some of my apps. These apps have lags when you play with them for a few seconds the apps are having lags are call of duty strike team, gta San Andreas and nfs most wanted.pleas help me

I'm going to guess videos buffer for a while also...
Two possibilities, one is you should close apps on the iPad, the other is your internet speed is not able to handle the demands of a high speed device.
To close apps: Double click home button, swipe up to close the apps.
To solve internet problem, contact your provider. Basic internet is not enough for video games and movies. Your router may be old and slow.

Error while executing SAP E-Commerce Application with UME system

When attempting to login to the B2B application (http://hostname:port/b2b/init.do), we receive the following error:
Error while executing SAP E-Commerce Application with UME system; try again to log on. If the problem persists, call our hotline.
I checked the defaultTrace log and every time the login page is called the following messages are displayed:
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#System.err#sap.com/crm~b2b#System.err#Guest#0##n/a##70cf2ba0756b11df86050003ba827311#SAPEngine_Application_Thread[impl:3]_0##0#0#Error##Plain### at com.sap.engine.services.servlets_jsp.server.runtime.RequestDispatcherImpl.forward(RequestDispatcherImpl.java:354)#
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I have modified the userid and hostname in the above trace output.
Does anyone know how we can debug this issue further?
Thanks,
Setu

Hi,
Are you using UME login type for your B2B Scenario?
In your B2B XCM setting have you selected UME related login type?
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