Meaning of SAP

What are Systems, Applications and Products in SAP?
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Santhosh

The original SAP idea was to provide customers with the ability to interact with a common corporate database for a comprehensive range of applications. Gradually, the applications have been assembled and today many corporations, including IBM and Microsoft, are using SAP products to run their own businesses.
SAP applications, built around their latest R/3 system, provide the capability to manage financial, asset, and cost accounting, production operations and materials, personnel, plants, and archived documents. The R/3 system runs on a number of platforms including Windows 2000 and uses the client/server model. The latest version of R/3 includes a comprehensive Internet-enabled package.

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Meaning of SAP's 4GL-ABAP/4

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I want to know the meaning of SAP's 4GL-ABAP/4.
Thanks
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Hi,
A fourth-generation programming language (abbreviated 4GL) is a descriptive term used for programming languages and environments designed with a specific purpose in mind, such as the development of commercial business software. In the evolution of computing (see programming language generations), the 4GL followed the 3GL in an upward trend toward higher abstraction and statement power. The 4GL was followed by efforts to define and use a 5GL.
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Plz: meaning of this sentence : MDM works out of box with sap BI component

hi
please explain me what is the meaning of :
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Message was edited by:
akhil k

Hi akhil,
In lines to what Simona has said, I would like to mention that SAP MDM is a different tool altogether and functions out of the box with SABP BI.
Talking a bit about the integration scenarios, SAP MDM SP04 is integrated with SAP BI 3.5 as two different tools where MDM behaves as a different tool altogether and imports the data from BI and cleanses it and then syndicates it back to BI.
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Hi!
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Example: p:CN=SAP/[email protected]
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Important: All users use group entries in the SAP Logon (saplogin.ini). Means, for SAP logon the SNC name can not be manually configured on the SAP Front End. With group logons, the application server's SNC name is dynamically requested by the message server each time a SAP GUI connection is started. The SNC Name is greyed out in this case as dynamically obtained from the applications servers profile parameter snc/identity/as.
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Replacing the SNC Library on the AS ABAP
The Secure Login Library 2.0 (SP3) has been installed on one of the ABAP systems and the SNC Client Encryption SNC Library (which is based on SSO 1.0) is no longer used, thus we changed the parameter snc/gssapi_lib to point to the new SNC library. We removed the old PSE.ZIP containing the keytab and created the new SAPSNCSKERB.PSE incl. the keytab and proper credentials. To ensure parallel operation, we kept the snc/identity/as value as is = p:CN=SAP/[email protected].
After restarting the system with initialized Secure Login Library 2.0, still the SNC client encryption works fine for existing users.
The problem
We created on the Secure Login Server an SNC certificate for the AS ABAP which has the following X.509 Distinguised Name Fomat: CN=SAP/[email protected] This is to avoid having to change the snc/identity/as to an "real" X.509 DN which would lead to non-working SNC Client Encryption for all the other users using SAP GUI and logon groups.
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Regards,
Carsten

Hi all,
we was able to fix the issue. It was an issue with the customers cluster configuration and the $SECUDIR variable. This tricky issue leads to non working or sporadic working SNC Client Encryption...
This was how the configuration looks before:
Environment variable $SECUDIR is defined:
"/ABCDEF<SID>/usr/sap/<SID>/DVEBMGSxx/sec“
sapgenpse seclogin -l -v
running seclogin with USER="<SID>adm"
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0 (LPS:OFF):
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1 (LPS:OFF):
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Thread closed hope this helps someone
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Data transfer b/w SAP to Java using IDOC and Interface SAP Jco

Dear Experts,
The challenging requirement we are having is, we need to create the interface for data transfer between SAP system and the Java system. The data will be transferred from SAP to java and similarly once some processing done in Java again the details needs to be transferred from Java to SAP.
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Warm Regards,
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Hi All,
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Upgrade SAP from ECC 6.0 EHP4 to ECC 6.0 EHP7

Dear all,
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Hello
The nightmare is going on... this point has been discussed a year ago (Re: Comapatability between EHP7 and SAP Netweaver BI 7.0 EHP1) and the conclusion was that you only need to upgrade HUB satellite systems... and a BW system is not an HUB.
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Did not find any information on the necessity to upgrade the CRM, so I think you should keep it as it is.
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Best regards
Strategy beyond SAP Business Suite 7 Innovations 2011 - Landscape Governance - SCN Wiki
1388258 - Version Interoperability within the SAP Business Suite
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Connect a legacy system to SAP by ALE

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I have a legacy system in VB for venodor details, I wish to integrate it with SAP. but don know the procedure... i feel ALE can help in this regards as i am looking for it in real time rather uploading the data by batch upload. please explain me the process of it.. i know the configuration of ALE but don know the receiving part from the outside of SAP... please help in this regards..any article.. process, will be great help of mine..
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Naim,
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Issue in SAP GUI 7.0 for ECC6 (ABAP Editor not working)

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We have installed SAP ECC6.0 EHP4.We have installed SAP GUI 7.0 in our clients machine but in some machines the ABAP Editor i.e Tcode SE38 is not working properly.When our Client selects any transaction for editing the system gets HANG.
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Dear Manoj
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I dont know weather this issue has to be posted here or in WAS or GUI.
Is there any way to do the Integrates Windows Authentication to SAP R/3. Once the Users logs in to the Network domain adn then to SAP GUI, the User should not prompt for User id and should directlt take in to the Role Menu.
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Sumath,
there are various variants to do so:
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Queries related to ABAP Programs migration to SAP ECC 6.0

We are planning to re-implement SAP using SAP ECC 6.0 We are currently using SAP R3 Version 4.7
Regarding migration of existing ABAP Programs and data, I have some queries which may kindly be answered by any of the experts of this forum.
1. I have heard that SAP ECC 6.0 or SAP Netweaver 7.0 will never support BDC programs. To upload data into SAP, BAPI is the preferred option. Is that true?
2. In ABAP Programming, relational operator < (less than), > (greater than), <= (less than or equal to) etc are not supported by SAP Netweaver 7.0. In stead, operator contants LT, GT, LE etc must be used. Other wise, SAP reports syntax error. Is thar true?
3. Screens (Dynpros) have been fully programmed in ABAP Objects in almost all programs related to functional modules (SD,MM,PP,FI/CO etc) in SAP ECC 6.0. Is that true?
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I request you to kindly reply for these four queries at the earliest.
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Coming to relational operators u can use both of them but preferred is operator contants LT, GT, LE.
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Hi,
Yes I know that http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/SAPsite/download.html used to work, but it does not exist any more and now redirects to http://java.com/en/javaforbusiness/sap_download.jsp.
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