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Any room for improvement for this query? Explain Plan attached.

Is there any room for improvement for this query? Table stats are up-to-date. Any suggestions Query rewrite, addition of indexes,...etc ??
select sum(CONF
             when (cd.actl_qty - cd.total_alloc_qty - lsd.Q < 0) then
              0
             else
              cd.actl_qty - cd.total_alloc_qty - lsd.Q
           end)
from (select sum(reqd_qty) as Q, ITEM_ID as ITEM
          from SHIP_DTL SD
         where exists (select 1
                  from CONF_dtl
                 where CONF_nbr = '1'
                   and ITEM_id = SD.ITEM_id)
         group by ITEM_id) lsd,
       CONF_dtl cd
where lsd.ITEM = cd.ITEM_id
   and cd.CONF_nbr = '1'Total number of rows in the tables involved
select count(*) from CONF_DTL;
COUNT(*)
   1785889
select count(*) from shp_dtl;
COUNT(*)
    286675
Explain Plan
PLAN_TABLE_OUTPUT
Plan hash value: 2325658044
| Id | Operation                           | Name               | Rows | Bytes | Cost (%CPU)| Time     |
|   0 | SELECT STATEMENT                    |                    |     1 |    39 |     4 (25)| 00:00:01 |
|   1 | SORT AGGREGATE                     |                    |     1 |    39 |            |          |
|   2 |   VIEW                              |                    |     1 |    39 |     4 (25)| 00:00:01 |
|   3 |    HASH GROUP BY                    |                    |     1 |   117 |     4 (25)| 00:00:01 |
|   4 |     TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID     | SHIP_DTL           |     1 |    15 |     1   (0)| 00:00:01
|   5 |      NESTED LOOPS                   |                    |     1 |   117 |     3   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|   6 |       MERGE JOIN CARTESIAN          |                    |     1 |   102 |     2   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|   7 |        TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID | CONF_DTL           |     1 |    70 |     1   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|* 8 |         INDEX RANGE SCAN            | PK_CONF_DTL        |     1 |       |     1   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|   9 |        BUFFER SORT                  |                    |     1 |    32 |     1   (0)| 00:00:01 |
| 10 |         SORT UNIQUE                 |                    |     1 |    32 |     1   (0)| 00:00:01 |
| 11 |          TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID| CONF_DTL           |     1 |    32 |     1   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|* 12 |           INDEX RANGE SCAN          | PK_CONF_DTL        |     1 |       |     1   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|* 13 |       INDEX RANGE SCAN              | SHIP_DTL_IND_6 |     1 |       |     1   (0)| 00:00:01 |
Predicate Information (identified by operation id):
   8 - access("CD"."CONF_NBR"='1')
12 - access("CONF_NBR"='1')
13 - access("ITEM_ID"="SD"."ITEM_ID")
       filter("ITEM_ID"="CD"."ITEM_ID")

Citizen_2 wrote:
Is there any room for improvement for this query? Table stats are up-to-date. Any suggestions Query rewrite, addition of indexes,...etc ??You say that the table stats are up-to-date, but is the following assumption of the optimizer correct:
select count(*)
from CONF_dtl
where CONF_nbr = '1';Does this query return a count of 1? I doubt that, but that's what Oracle estimates in the EXPLAIN PLAN output. Based on that assumption you get a cartesian join between the two CONF_DTL table instances, and the result - which is still expected to be one row at most - is then joined to the SHIP_DTL table using a NESTED LOOP.
If above assumption is incorrect, the number of rows generated by the cartesian join can be tremendous rendering the NESTED LOOP operation quite inefficient.
You can verify this by using the DBMS_XPLAN.DISPLAY_CURSOR function together with the GATHER_PLAN_STATISTICS hint, if you're already on 10g or later.
For more information regarding the DISPLAY_CURSOR function, see e.g. here: http://jonathanlewis.wordpress.com/2006/11/09/dbms_xplan-in-10g/
It will show you the actual cardinalities compared to the estimated cardinalities.
If the estimate of the optimizer is incorrect, you should find out why. There still might be some issues with the statistics, since this is most obvious reason for incorrect estimates.
Are your index statistics up-to-date?
Regards,
Randolf
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Firefox can't load certain sites; your link for this topic doesn't work. Firefox 4, 5,6-Debian-6

In the last week certain websites won't load. All I get is a blank page. Some of them: www.amazon.com, www.chron.com, www.microsemi.com.
I was able to get on amazon.com by following a link for vendor feedback from an email but nothing else works.
This problem exists with Firefox 4, 5, 6 and the default Debian browser Iceweasel. I am using Debian 6.0.
Your link for this problem results in a page not found error.

Start Firefox in <u>[[Safe Mode]]</u> to check if one of the extensions or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance/Themes).
*Don't make any changes on the Safe mode start window.
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Safe+Mode
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes
Try "Disable the hardware acceleration" in the Flash Player.
*http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/video-playback-issues.html
See also:
* https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Cannot+view+full+screen+Flash+videos
Flash "Display settings" window:
* http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/help01.html

I think its close enough for this topic

All you UK residents finaaaallly going to get your iPhone's tomorrow, what time are you planning to go?
Im still not sure what to do, I have an O2 and CPW store 5 mins from me, and an Apple store 30 mins away. I ideally want to go to the Apple store (partly because there will be more of an 'event' there, partly because its in a mall and I dont have to queue in the cold!) but Im thinking it will be sooo much busier than the high street O2/CPW stores.
I don't want to get to the Apple store to find a 200 strong queue and find out my friend went into my hometown and walked straight into an O2 store at 6.
Hmmmm decisions.

Just so this won't influence your decision: in the US you don't actually get your phone service set up when you buy. You do it online. I bought mine at the Apple Store, but on a recent trip to ATT, they were telling customers they had to do it online as well.
The process only takes a few minutes and (in the US at least) includes porting over your current number. Not sure how it will be handled in GB.
Another thing to factor in: I am assuming that the Apple Store will have 200 extra employees on duty for the event, while the O2 store will be understaffed as cell phone stores usually are.
Enjoy your new phone.

Which LayoutManager for this topic

Hi there!
I'm trying to arrange 3 JPanels in a JFrame like this:
+------------------------+----------+
| panel1                | panel2   |
+------------------------+----------+
|                                   |
| panel3                           |
|                                   |
|                                   |
+-----------------------------------+On a resize, I want to maintain the relative size of the single panels, e.g.:
panel1.height = 1/4 of frame.height
panel3.height = 3/4 of frame.height
and the same for the widths of panel1 and panel2.
What layoutmanager would you recommend?

package gui1;
* LayoutDemo.java
import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;
public class LayoutDemo extends JFrame {
    private JPanel jPanel1, jPanel2, jPanel3, jPanel4;
    public LayoutDemo() {
        super("Layout Demo");
        setDefaultCloseOperation(WindowConstants.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        setSize(400,300);
        setLocationRelativeTo(null);
        GridBagConstraints gridBagConstraints;
        jPanel1 = new JPanel();
        jPanel2 = new JPanel();
        jPanel3 = new JPanel();
        jPanel4 = new JPanel();
        jPanel1.setLayout(new GridBagLayout());
        jPanel2.setBackground(new Color(255, 255, 204));
        gridBagConstraints = new GridBagConstraints();
        gridBagConstraints.gridwidth = 2;
        gridBagConstraints.fill = GridBagConstraints.BOTH;
        gridBagConstraints.weightx = 2.0;
        gridBagConstraints.weighty = 1.0;
        jPanel1.add(jPanel2, gridBagConstraints);
        jPanel3.setBackground(new Color(204, 204, 255));
        gridBagConstraints = new GridBagConstraints();
        gridBagConstraints.fill = GridBagConstraints.BOTH;
        gridBagConstraints.weightx = 1.0;
        gridBagConstraints.weighty = 1.0;
        jPanel1.add(jPanel3, gridBagConstraints);
        jPanel4.setBackground(new Color(255, 204, 204));
        gridBagConstraints = new GridBagConstraints();
        gridBagConstraints.gridx = 0;
        gridBagConstraints.gridy = 1;
        gridBagConstraints.gridwidth = 3;
        gridBagConstraints.gridheight = 3;
        gridBagConstraints.fill = GridBagConstraints.BOTH;
        gridBagConstraints.weightx = 3.0;
        gridBagConstraints.weighty = 3.0;
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        getContentPane().add(jPanel1, BorderLayout.CENTER);
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}Message was edited by:
Andre_Uhres

What licensing do I need for this use ?

Lets say Im planning an application which does nothing but
allows the user to upload Adobe PDF documents to our server. Then
once on the server, parse the values from forms on the PDF's and
extract the data. We wont be distributing Acrobat reader or any
other Adobe product, but will provide a link where they can
download the reader.
Also, the PDF's would be created by someone with a copy of
Acrobat pro. These PDF's will need digital signature capability.
Can Acrobat reader handle signatures ?
Here are my questions:
- What licensing do I need, if any, in the above scenario,
other than that for a copy of Acrobat ?
- What are my options for capturing digitical signatures
within a PDF and will the publicly available version of Acrobat
reader allow the end user to sign the documents, provided they
install the extra requirements for handling the signatures ?

This isn't the correct forum for this topic, but I may be
able to get you started...
The licensing restrictions on gathering form data from PDFs
is outlined in the EULA for Reader, I believe there is a limit of
500 copies, but I could be wrong ... you should look at the EULA to
be sure.
Beyond that, try posting to the
Acrobat
Forums or contacting a sales rep at Adobe, they may be able to
advise you further.

What i have to do for this exception and i am running my struts applicatio

ValidatorResources not found in application scope under key "org.apache.commons.validator.VALIDATOR_RESOURCES"
this is coding for ur reference
<%@taglib uri="/WEB-INF/struts-html.tld" prefix="html"%>
<%@taglib uri="/WEB-INF/struts-bean.tld" prefix="bean"%>
<html>
<head>
<html:javascript formName="action2" dynamicJavascript="true" staticJavascript="true" />
<%-- <SCRIPT>
function set(target) {
document.forms[0].dispatch.value=target;
</SCRIPT>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title>JSP Page</title>
<html:hidden property="dispatch" value="error"/>
<html:submit onclick="set('save');">SAVE</html:submit>
<html:submit onclick="set('create');">SAVE AS NEW</html:submit>
<Zhtml:submit onclick="set('delete);">DELETE</html:submit>
--%>
</head>
<body>
<h1>JSP Page</h1>
<html:errors/>
<html:form>
config such as
<form-beans>
<form-bean name="dispform" type="org.apache.struts.validator.DynaValidatorActionForm">
<form-property name="name" type="java.lang.String"/>
<form-property name="password" type="java.lang.String"/>
<form-property name="submit" type="java.lang.String"/>
</form-bean>
</form-beans>
<action-mappings>
<action input="/index.jsp" parameter="submit" name="dispform" path="/action1" scope="request" type="com.myapp.struts.dispatchaction">
<forward name="save" path="/save.jsp"/>
<forward name="delete" path="/delete.jsp"/>
<forward name="modify" path="/modify.jsp"/>
</action>

</action-mappings>
validation.xml file is
<form name="action2">
<field
property="name"
depends="required">
<arg0 key="logonForm.username"/>
</field>
<field
property="password"
depends="required">
<arg0 key="logonForm.password"/>
<var>
<var-name>mask</var-name>
<var-value>^[0-9a-zA-Z]*$</var-value>
</var>
</field>
</form>
-----plz help me for this..................

hey, I hope my experience will help for this topic: i use resin 2.1.17 and struts 1.2.9. the first problem i've found was in the the struts.jar, the class
org.apache.struts.validator.ValidatorPlugIn
didn't load the "pathnames" for the validator-rules.xml and validation.xml, to solve temporary the problem i addedin in the ValidationPlugin:
protected void initResources()
throws IOException, ServletException
if(pathnames == null || pathnames.length() <= 0)
// it was
// return;
// now is
pathnames = "WEB-INF/validator-rules.xml,WEB-INF/validation.xml";
etc...
then the common-digester failed his job: the digester-rules.dtd file in the package org.apache.commons.digester.xmlrules has some dirty character not in UTF-8 encode. The method init () of the ValidatorPlugin class don't arise the SAXException that org.apache.commons.validator.ValidatorResources of common-validator.jar and org.apache.commons.digester.xmlrules.DigesterLoader classes throw because the dtd parsing fails.
After this changes, my client side Struts validation wors, but i'm still working on it. I will write later more tips.
ciao
thomas

How to improve performace for this program

Hi,
I want to improve performance for this program.Pls help me.Here is the code.
Thanks
kumar
--# SCCS: @(#)nscdprpt_rpt_fam_fweq_detail_aggr_dml.sql     2.1 08/17/05 12:16:11
--# Location: /appl/dpdm/src/sql/SCCS/s.nscdprpt_rpt_fam_fweq_detail_aggr_dml.sql
-- =============================================================================
-- Purpose:
-- DML Script to calculate aggregate rows from table NSCDPRPT.RPT_FAM_FWEQ_DETAIL
-- inserts one (1) monthly total row for each comparison type (6 of them)
-- Modification History
-- Date Version Who What
-- 28-Jun-05 V1.00 J. Myers Initial Version
-- 17-Aug-05 gzuerc Replaced UNION ALL code with INSERT's to avoid
-- Oracle error out of undo tablespace.
-- ============================================================================
-- NOTES:
-- This process pulls data from RPT_FAM_FWEQ_DETAIL table.
-- The target table RPT_FAM_FWEQ_DETAIL_AGGR is truncated by plan_ctry and loaded daily;
-- it is the data used in the Forecast Accuracy Measurements Report.
-- The input data is 'wide' (6 quantities), and this script outputs a single
-- row for each quantity as a 'thin' table (single column F1_QTY and F2_QTY shared by all quantities), and
-- with a ROW_TYPE = 'TOTAL'
-- Two (2) other scripts add additional rows to this table as follows:
-- 1) nscdprpt_rpt_fam_FWEQ_detail_aggr_sesn_avg_dml.sql => calculates the
-- total quantities F1_QTY, F2_QTY and AE for each LEVEL_VALUE
-- 2) nscdprpt_rpt_fam_FWEQ_detail_aggr_pct_swg_dml.sql => calculates the
-- percent swing in quantities between DISP_EVENTS for each grouping
-- of PLAN_CTRY, DIVISION, SEASON and TRG_EVENT_NUM for only LEVEL_TYPE = 'SUB_CAT'
-- =============================================================================
-- The result set from joining RPT_FAM_FWEQ_DETAIL rows with comparison types
-- is inserted into the table RPT_FAM_FWEQ_DETAIL_AGGR
INSERT INTO rpt_fam_FWEQ_detail_aggr
SELECT plan_ctry,
division,
season,
monthly_seq,
     bucket_month_date,
tier_num,
level_num,
tier_volume,
trg_event_num,
disp_event_num,
max_event_num,
compare_name,
first_display_event_num,
level_type,
level_value,
'TOTAL' AS row_type,
material,
key_material,
sap_cat_cd,
sap_cat_desc,
sap_sub_cat_cd,
sap_sub_cat_desc,
sty_colr_sdesc,
sty_grp_nbr,
sty_grp_desc,
matl_typ,
sap_prod_typ_grp, -- 'Type Group' in Brio
typ_grp_desc, -- 'Type Group' in Brio
curr_prod_i2_life_cyc_cd,
NULL AS promo_ind, -- for future use
-- Each RPT_FAM_FWEQ_DETAIL row's eight (8) quantity columns are broken down
-- into F1_QTY from DISP_aaaa_QTY, F2_QTY from TRG_aaaa_QTY and
     -- AE from aaaa_AE where 'aaaa' is equal to one of the COMPARE_TYPEs below:
-- F1_QTY
CASE WHEN compare_type = 'DELIVERY_PLAN' THEN
disp_dlvry_plan_qty
WHEN compare_type = 'NET' THEN
disp_net_qty
WHEN compare_type = 'NET_AO' THEN
disp_ao_qty
WHEN compare_type = 'NET_FTRS' THEN
disp_futr_qty
WHEN compare_type = 'NET_REPLENS' THEN
disp_replen_qty
WHEN compare_type = 'AUTH_FTRS' THEN
disp_auth_futr_qty
END as f1_qty,
-- F2_QTY
CASE WHEN compare_type = 'DELIVERY_PLAN' THEN
trg_dlvry_plan_qty
WHEN compare_type = 'NET' THEN
trg_net_qty
WHEN compare_type = 'NET_AO' THEN
trg_ao_qty
WHEN compare_type = 'NET_FTRS' THEN
trg_futr_qty
WHEN compare_type = 'NET_REPLENS' THEN
trg_replen_qty
WHEN compare_type = 'AUTH_FTRS' THEN
trg_auth_futures_qty
END as f2_qty,
-- AE
CASE WHEN compare_type = 'DELIVERY_PLAN' THEN
abs(disp_dlvry_plan_qty - trg_dlvry_plan_qty)
WHEN compare_type = 'NET' THEN
abs(disp_net_qty - trg_net_qty)
WHEN compare_type = 'NET_AO' THEN
abs(disp_ao_qty - trg_ao_qty)
WHEN compare_type = 'NET_FTRS' THEN
abs(disp_futr_qty - trg_futr_qty)
WHEN compare_type = 'NET_REPLENS' THEN
abs(disp_replen_qty - trg_replen_qty)
WHEN compare_type = 'AUTH_FTRS' THEN
abs(disp_auth_futr_qty - trg_auth_futures_qty)
END as ae,
SYSDATE AS zz_insert_tmst
FROM
-- The following in-line view provides three (3) result sets from the RPT_FAM_FWEQ_DETAIL table
     -- This in-line view returns only LEVEL_NUM = 1 or LEVEL_TYPE = 'SUB_CAT' data
     SELECT plan_ctry,
     division,
     season,
     monthly_seq,
          bucket_month_date,
     tier_num,
     level_num,
     tier_volume,
     trg_event_num,
     trg_event_type,
     disp_event_num,
     max_event_num,
     first_display_event_num,
     level_type,
     level_value,
     -- The following NULL'd columns' values cannot be saved due to aggregation
     NULL AS material,
     NULL AS key_material,
     sap_cat_cd,
     sap_cat_desc,
     sap_sub_cat_cd,
     sap_sub_cat_desc,
     NULL AS sty_colr_sdesc,
     NULL AS sty_grp_nbr,
     NULL AS sty_grp_desc,
     NULL AS matl_typ,
     sap_prod_typ_grp, -- 'Type Group' in Brio
     typ_grp_desc, -- 'Type Group' in Brio
     NULL AS curr_prod_i2_life_cyc_cd,
     sum(disp_net_qty) AS disp_net_qty,
          sum(trg_net_qty) AS trg_net_qty,
     -- ABS(sum(trg_net_qty) - sum(disp_net_qty)) AS net_AE,
     sum(disp_dlvry_plan_qty) AS disp_dlvry_plan_qty,
          sum(trg_dlvry_plan_qty) AS trg_dlvry_plan_qty,
     -- ABS(sum(trg_dlvry_plan_qty) - sum(disp_dlvry_plan_qty)) AS dlvry_plan_AE,
     sum(disp_futr_qty) AS disp_futr_qty,
          sum(trg_futr_qty) AS trg_futr_qty,
     -- ABS(sum(trg_futr_qty) - sum(disp_futr_qty)) AS futr_AE,
     sum(disp_ao_qty) AS disp_ao_qty,
          sum(trg_ao_qty) AS trg_ao_qty,
     -- ABS(sum(trg_ao_qty) - sum(disp_ao_qty)) AS ao_AE,
     sum(disp_replen_qty) AS disp_replen_qty,
          sum(trg_replen_qty) AS trg_replen_qty,
     -- ABS(sum(trg_replen_qty) - sum(disp_replen_qty)) AS replen_AE,
     sum(disp_futr_qty) AS disp_auth_futr_qty,
          sum(trg_auth_futures_qty) AS trg_auth_futures_qty --,
     -- ABS(sum(trg_auth_futures_qty) - sum(disp_futr_qty)) AS auth_futures_AE
     FROM rpt_fam_FWEQ_detail
     WHERE plan_ctry &where_plan_ctry
     and level_num = 1 -- 'SUB-CAT'
     -- AND (promo_ind <> 'Y' OR promo_ind IS null)
     GROUP BY plan_ctry,
     division,
     season,
     monthly_seq,
          bucket_month_date,
     tier_num,
     level_num,
     tier_volume,
     trg_event_num,
     trg_event_type,
     disp_event_num,
     max_event_num,
     first_display_event_num,
     level_type,
     level_value,
     sap_cat_cd,
     sap_cat_desc,
     sap_sub_cat_cd,
     sap_sub_cat_desc,
     sap_prod_typ_grp, -- 'Type Group' in Brio
     typ_grp_desc -- 'Type Group' in Brio
     ) dtl,
     -- The following in-line view returns all of the different combinations
     -- of comparison types in the RPT_FAM_FWEQ_DETAIL table
     -- This select returns the pairing of all forecast types
     SELECT event_type, compare_type, compare_name
     from
     (SELECT event_type, compare_type, compare_type_description || ' to ' || compare_type_description AS compare_name
     FROM rpt_fam_compare_types
     WHERE event_type = 'FCST'
     UNION
     -- This select returns the pairing of all bookings types with forecast types
     SELECT bkng.event_type, fcst.compare_type, bkng.compare_type_description || ' to ' || fcst.compare_type_description AS compare_name
     FROM rpt_fam_compare_types fcst,
     rpt_fam_compare_types bkng
     WHERE fcst.event_type = 'FCST'
     AND bkng.event_type = 'BKNG'
     AND fcst.compare_type = bkng.compare_type
     WHERE event_type || ' ' || compare_type <> 'FCST AUTH_FTRS'
     AND compare_type NOT IN ('NET_SHIP', 'SHIP_NET_FTRS', 'NET_ETS', 'GROSS_FTRS')
     ) cmpr
-- The two (2) in-line views are joined by EVENT_TYPE (i.e. 'FCST' and 'BKNG')
-- to form a product of all RPT_FAM_FWEQ_DETAIL rows with comparison types
WHERE dtl.trg_event_type = cmpr.event_type
ORDER BY plan_ctry,
division,
season,
monthly_seq,
tier_num,
level_num,
tier_volume,
trg_event_num,
disp_event_num,
max_event_num,
first_display_event_num,
level_type,
level_value
COMMIT
INSERT INTO rpt_fam_FWEQ_detail_aggr
SELECT plan_ctry,
division,
season,
monthly_seq,
     bucket_month_date,
tier_num,
level_num,
tier_volume,
trg_event_num,
disp_event_num,
max_event_num,
compare_name,
first_display_event_num,
level_type,
level_value,
'TOTAL' AS row_type,
material,
key_material,
sap_cat_cd,
sap_cat_desc,
sap_sub_cat_cd,
sap_sub_cat_desc,
sty_colr_sdesc,
sty_grp_nbr,
sty_grp_desc,
matl_typ,
sap_prod_typ_grp, -- 'Type Group' in Brio
typ_grp_desc, -- 'Type Group' in Brio
curr_prod_i2_life_cyc_cd,
NULL AS promo_ind, -- for future use
-- Each RPT_FAM_FWEQ_DETAIL row's eight (8) quantity columns are broken down
-- into F1_QTY from DISP_aaaa_QTY, F2_QTY from TRG_aaaa_QTY and
     -- AE from aaaa_AE where 'aaaa' is equal to one of the COMPARE_TYPEs below:
-- F1_QTY
CASE WHEN compare_type = 'DELIVERY_PLAN' THEN
disp_dlvry_plan_qty
WHEN compare_type = 'NET' THEN
disp_net_qty
WHEN compare_type = 'NET_AO' THEN
disp_ao_qty
WHEN compare_type = 'NET_FTRS' THEN
disp_futr_qty
WHEN compare_type = 'NET_REPLENS' THEN
disp_replen_qty
WHEN compare_type = 'AUTH_FTRS' THEN
disp_auth_futr_qty
END as f1_qty,
-- F2_QTY
CASE WHEN compare_type = 'DELIVERY_PLAN' THEN
trg_dlvry_plan_qty
WHEN compare_type = 'NET' THEN
trg_net_qty
WHEN compare_type = 'NET_AO' THEN
trg_ao_qty
WHEN compare_type = 'NET_FTRS' THEN
trg_futr_qty
WHEN compare_type = 'NET_REPLENS' THEN
trg_replen_qty
WHEN compare_type = 'AUTH_FTRS' THEN
trg_auth_futures_qty
END as f2_qty,
-- AE
CASE WHEN compare_type = 'DELIVERY_PLAN' THEN
abs(disp_dlvry_plan_qty - trg_dlvry_plan_qty)
WHEN compare_type = 'NET' THEN
abs(disp_net_qty - trg_net_qty)
WHEN compare_type = 'NET_AO' THEN
abs(disp_ao_qty - trg_ao_qty)
WHEN compare_type = 'NET_FTRS' THEN
abs(disp_futr_qty - trg_futr_qty)
WHEN compare_type = 'NET_REPLENS' THEN
abs(disp_replen_qty - trg_replen_qty)
WHEN compare_type = 'AUTH_FTRS' THEN
abs(disp_auth_futr_qty - trg_auth_futures_qty)
END as ae,
SYSDATE AS zz_insert_tmst
FROM
     -- This in-line view returns only LEVEL_NUM = 2 or LEVEL_TYPE = 'STYLE_GROUP' data
     (SELECT plan_ctry,
     division,
     season,
     monthly_seq,
          bucket_month_date,
     tier_num,
     level_num,
     tier_volume,
     trg_event_num,
     trg_event_type,
     disp_event_num,
     max_event_num,
     first_display_event_num,
     level_type,
     level_value,
     -- The following NULL'd columns' values cannot be saved due to aggregation
     NULL AS material,
     NULL AS key_material,
     sap_cat_cd,
     sap_cat_desc,
     sap_sub_cat_cd,
     sap_sub_cat_desc,
     NULL AS sty_colr_sdesc,
     sty_grp_nbr,
     sty_grp_desc,
     NULL AS matl_typ,
     sap_prod_typ_grp, -- 'Type Group' in Brio
     typ_grp_desc, -- 'Type Group' in Brio
     NULL AS curr_prod_i2_life_cyc_cd,
     sum(disp_net_qty) AS disp_net_qty,
          sum(trg_net_qty) AS trg_net_qty,
     -- ABS(sum(trg_net_qty) - sum(disp_net_qty)) AS net_AE,
     sum(disp_dlvry_plan_qty) AS disp_dlvry_plan_qty,
          sum(trg_dlvry_plan_qty) AS trg_dlvry_plan_qty,
     -- ABS(sum(trg_dlvry_plan_qty) - sum(disp_dlvry_plan_qty)) AS dlvry_plan_AE,
     sum(disp_futr_qty) AS disp_futr_qty,
          sum(trg_futr_qty) AS trg_futr_qty,
     -- ABS(sum(trg_futr_qty) - sum(disp_futr_qty)) AS futr_AE,
     sum(disp_ao_qty) AS disp_ao_qty,
          sum(trg_ao_qty) AS trg_ao_qty,
     -- ABS(sum(trg_ao_qty) - sum(disp_ao_qty)) AS ao_AE,
     sum(disp_replen_qty) AS disp_replen_qty,
          sum(trg_replen_qty) AS trg_replen_qty,
     -- ABS(sum(trg_replen_qty) - sum(disp_replen_qty)) AS replen_AE,
     sum(disp_futr_qty) AS disp_auth_futr_qty,
          sum(trg_auth_futures_qty) AS trg_auth_futures_qty --,
     -- ABS(sum(trg_auth_futures_qty) - sum(disp_futr_qty)) AS auth_futures_AE
     FROM rpt_fam_FWEQ_detail
     WHERE plan_ctry &where_plan_ctry
     and level_num = 2 -- 'STYLE-GRP' or 'STYLE'
     -- AND (promo_ind <> 'Y' OR promo_ind IS null)
     GROUP BY plan_ctry,
     division,
     season,
     monthly_seq,
          bucket_month_date,
     tier_num,
     level_num,
     tier_volume,
     trg_event_num,
     trg_event_type,
     disp_event_num,
     max_event_num,
     first_display_event_num,
     level_type,
     level_value,
     sap_cat_cd,
     sap_cat_desc,
     sap_sub_cat_cd,
     sap_sub_cat_desc,
     sty_grp_nbr,
     sty_grp_desc,
     sap_prod_typ_grp, -- 'Type Group' in Brio
     typ_grp_desc -- 'Type Group' in Brio
     ) dtl,
     -- The following in-line view returns all of the different combinations
     -- of comparison types in the RPT_FAM_FWEQ_DETAIL table
     -- This select returns the pairing of all forecast types
     SELECT event_type, compare_type, compare_name
     from
     (SELECT event_type, compare_type, compare_type_description || ' to ' || compare_type_description AS compare_name
     FROM rpt_fam_compare_types
     WHERE event_type = 'FCST'
     UNION
     -- This select returns the pairing of all bookings types with forecast types
     SELECT bkng.event_type, fcst.compare_type, bkng.compare_type_description || ' to ' || fcst.compare_type_description AS compare_name
     FROM rpt_fam_compare_types fcst,
     rpt_fam_compare_types bkng
     WHERE fcst.event_type = 'FCST'
     AND bkng.event_type = 'BKNG'
     AND fcst.compare_type = bkng.compare_type
     WHERE event_type || ' ' || compare_type <> 'FCST AUTH_FTRS'
     AND compare_type NOT IN ('NET_SHIP', 'SHIP_NET_FTRS', 'NET_ETS', 'GROSS_FTRS')
     ) cmpr
-- The two (2) in-line views are joined by EVENT_TYPE (i.e. 'FCST' and 'BKNG')
-- to form a product of all RPT_FAM_FWEQ_DETAIL rows with comparison types
WHERE dtl.trg_event_type = cmpr.event_type
ORDER BY plan_ctry,
division,
season,
monthly_seq,
tier_num,
level_num,
tier_volume,
trg_event_num,
disp_event_num,
max_event_num,
first_display_event_num,
level_type,
level_value
COMMIT
INSERT INTO rpt_fam_FWEQ_detail_aggr
SELECT plan_ctry,
division,
season,
monthly_seq,
     bucket_month_date,
tier_num,
level_num,
tier_volume,
trg_event_num,
disp_event_num,
max_event_num,
compare_name,
first_display_event_num,
level_type,
level_value,
'TOTAL' AS row_type,
material,
key_material,
sap_cat_cd,
sap_cat_desc,
sap_sub_cat_cd,
sap_sub_cat_desc,
sty_colr_sdesc,
sty_grp_nbr,
sty_grp_desc,
matl_typ,
sap_prod_typ_grp, -- 'Type Group' in Brio
typ_grp_desc, -- 'Type Group' in Brio
curr_prod_i2_life_cyc_cd,
NULL AS promo_ind, -- for future use
-- Each RPT_FAM_FWEQ_DETAIL row's eight (8) quantity columns are broken down
-- into F1_QTY from DISP_aaaa_QTY, F2_QTY from TRG_aaaa_QTY and
     -- AE from aaaa_AE where 'aaaa' is equal to one of the COMPARE_TYPEs below:
-- F1_QTY
CASE WHEN compare_type = 'DELIVERY_PLAN' THEN
disp_dlvry_plan_qty
WHEN compare_type = 'NET' THEN
disp_net_qty
WHEN compare_type = 'NET_AO' THEN
disp_ao_qty
WHEN compare_type = 'NET_FTRS' THEN
disp_futr_qty
WHEN compare_type = 'NET_REPLENS' THEN
disp_replen_qty
WHEN compare_type = 'AUTH_FTRS' THEN
disp_auth_futr_qty
END as f1_qty,
-- F2_QTY
CASE WHEN compare_type = 'DELIVERY_PLAN' THEN
trg_dlvry_plan_qty
WHEN compare_type = 'NET' THEN
trg_net_qty
WHEN compare_type = 'NET_AO' THEN
trg_ao_qty
WHEN compare_type = 'NET_FTRS' THEN
trg_futr_qty
WHEN compare_type = 'NET_REPLENS' THEN
trg_replen_qty
WHEN compare_type = 'AUTH_FTRS' THEN
trg_auth_futures_qty
END as f2_qty,
-- AE
CASE WHEN compare_type = 'DELIVERY_PLAN' THEN
abs(disp_dlvry_plan_qty - trg_dlvry_plan_qty)
WHEN compare_type = 'NET' THEN
abs(disp_net_qty - trg_net_qty)
WHEN compare_type = 'NET_AO' THEN
abs(disp_ao_qty - trg_ao_qty)
WHEN compare_type = 'NET_FTRS' THEN
abs(disp_futr_qty - trg_futr_qty)
WHEN compare_type = 'NET_REPLENS' THEN
abs(disp_replen_qty - trg_replen_qty)
WHEN compare_type = 'AUTH_FTRS' THEN
abs(disp_auth_futr_qty - trg_auth_futures_qty)
END as ae,
SYSDATE AS zz_insert_tmst
FROM
     -- This in-line view returns only LEVEL_NUM = 3 or LEVEL_TYPE = 'MATL' data
     (SELECT plan_ctry,
     division,
     season,
     monthly_seq,
          bucket_month_date,
     tier_num,
     level_num,
     tier_volume,
     trg_event_num,
     trg_event_type,
     disp_event_num,
     max_event_num,
     first_display_event_num,
     level_type,
     level_value,
     material,
     key_material,
     sap_cat_cd,
     sap_cat_desc,
     sap_sub_cat_cd,
     sap_sub_cat_desc,
     sty_colr_sdesc,
     sty_grp_nbr,
     sty_grp_desc,
     matl_typ,
     sap_prod_typ_grp, -- 'Type Group' in Brio
     typ_grp_desc, -- 'Type Group' in Brio
     curr_prod_i2_life_cyc_cd,
     sum(disp_net_qty) AS disp_net_qty,
          sum(trg_net_qty) AS trg_net_qty,
     -- ABS(sum(trg_net_qty) - sum(disp_net_qty)) AS net_AE,
     sum(disp_dlvry_plan_qty) AS disp_dlvry_plan_qty,
          sum(trg_dlvry_plan_qty) AS trg_dlvry_plan_qty,
     -- ABS(sum(trg_dlvry_plan_qty) - sum(disp_dlvry_plan_qty)) AS dlvry_plan_AE,
     sum(disp_futr_qty) AS disp_futr_qty,
          sum(trg_futr_qty) AS trg_futr_qty,
     -- ABS(sum(trg_futr_qty) - sum(disp_futr_qty)) AS futr_AE,
     sum(disp_ao_qty) AS disp_ao_qty,
          sum(trg_ao_qty) AS trg_ao_qty,
     -- ABS(sum(trg_ao_qty) - sum(disp_ao_qty)) AS ao_AE,
     sum(disp_replen_qty) AS disp_replen_qty,
          sum(trg_replen_qty) AS trg_replen_qty,
     -- ABS(sum(trg_replen_qty) - sum(disp_replen_qty)) AS replen_AE,
     sum(disp_futr_qty) AS disp_auth_futr_qty,
          sum(trg_auth_futures_qty) AS trg_auth_futures_qty --,
     -- ABS(sum(trg_auth_futures_qty) - sum(disp_futr_qty)) AS auth_futures_AE
     FROM rpt_fam_FWEQ_detail
     WHERE plan_ctry &where_plan_ctry
     and level_num = 3 -- 'MATERIAL'
     -- AND promo_ind <> 'Y'
     GROUP BY plan_ctry,
     division,
     season,
     monthly_seq,
          bucket_month_date,
     tier_num,
     level_num,
     tier_volume,
     trg_event_num,
     trg_event_type,
     disp_event_num,
     max_event_num,
     first_display_event_num,
     level_type,
     level_value,
     material,
     key_material,
     sap_cat_cd,
     sap_cat_desc,
     sap_sub_cat_cd,
     sap_sub_cat_desc,
     sty_colr_sdesc,
     sty_grp_nbr,
     sty_grp_desc,
     matl_typ,
     sap_prod_typ_grp, -- 'Type Group' in Brio
     typ_grp_desc, -- 'Type Group' in Brio
     curr_prod_i2_life_cyc_cd
     ) dtl,
     -- The following in-line view returns all of the different combinations
     -- of comparison types in the RPT_FAM_FWEQ_DETAIL table
     -- This select returns the pairing of all forecast types
     SELECT event_type, compare_type, compare_name
     from
     (SELECT event_type, compare_type, compare_type_description || ' to ' || compare_type_description AS compare_name
     FROM rpt_fam_compare_types
     WHERE event_type = 'FCST'
     UNION
     -- This select returns the pairing of all bookings types with forecast types
     SELECT bkng.event_type, fcst.compare_type, bkng.compare_type_description || ' to ' || fcst.compare_type_description AS compare_name
     FROM rpt_fam_compare_types fcst,
     rpt_fam_compare_types bkng
     WHERE fcst.event_type = 'FCST'
     AND bkng.event_type = 'BKNG'
     AND fcst.compare_type = bkng.compare_type
     WHERE event_type || ' ' || compare_type <> 'FCST AUTH_FTRS'
     AND compare_type NOT IN ('NET_SHIP', 'SHIP_NET_FTRS', 'NET_ETS', 'GROSS_FTRS')
     ) cmpr
-- The two (2) in-line views are joined by EVENT_TYPE (i.e. 'FCST' and 'BKNG')
-- to form a product of all RPT_FAM_FWEQ_DETAIL rows with comparison types
WHERE dtl.trg_event_type = cmpr.event_type
ORDER BY plan_ctry,
division,
season,
monthly_seq,
tier_num,
level_num,
tier_volume,
trg_event_num,
disp_event_num,
max_event_num,
first_display_event_num,
level_type,
level_value
COMMIT
/

I agree.
SELECT ticket_no,name_of_the_passenger..
FROM ticket_master
WHERE ticket_no NOT IN
(SELECT Ticket_no
FROM ticket_cancellations
WHERE trip_id = my_trip_id);
This involves creating a little temp table for each record in ticket_no. Then full scanning it.
Change it to
SELECT ticket_no,name_of_the_passenger..
FROM ticket_master B
WHERE ticket_no NOT EXISTS
(SELECT null
FROM ticket_cancellations A
WHERE A.ticket_no = B.ticket_no
AND trip_id = my_trip_id);
Then you get an index hit in both cases.

What is the topic for this month?

Hi,
Has the 'topic of the month' feature, in SDN, been discontinued... It is nowhere seen in the home page.
Just curious ..
Thanks and Regards,
- anto.

I think that was a great idea to devote each month for a topic. So that we see some interesting contributions.
Forget the double points.
I believe we had some good blogs due to this before, both from the RIG teams as well as the community as a whole..
I did search for it, but couldn't find anywhere either.
Thanks and Regards,
- anto.

HT3743 Hi dear, please can you help because when I do restoring for my iphone 3g 16gb it still gives an erorr (1015). I am still confused regarding to this topic

Hi dear, please can you help because when I do restoring for my iphone 3g 16gb it still gives an erorr (1015). I am still confused regarding to this topic

i need to fix error code 1015 for my iphone3G 16gb

Hi, i am having an issue with a basic motion scroll effect. I already watched and read every tutorial out there regarding this topic and even tried the adobe chat support, but the guy on the other end of the line disconnected me-, probably he didn't unde

Hi, i am having an issue with a basic motion scroll effect.
I already watched and read every tutorial out there regarding this topic and even tried the adobe chat support, but the guy on the other end of the line disconnected me…, probably he didn't understand what i wanted from him because english is not my native language, so a will try to be very, very clear about this one..
please note, that i am new to muse, this is my first project ever.
my idea is as following:
when the customer comes to our companies site, he just sees our logo on a white Background. the logo consists of, say, four elements. when the customer scrolls down, the logo starts to disassamble: first the first part of the logo flies out the left side of the site, then the second part of the logo vanishes down, then the third part of the logo flies to the right, then the fourth part of the logo flies to the top and out of the customers view. given what i have seen, it is possible to do that….
so…..
now i have the four parts of my logo imported as png files into muse and assembled them in design view to build our companies logo. I select every one of the four parts and go into the scroll effects tab left beside the layers tab. first i enter the same values for every one of the four parts: initial motion: 0x and 0x again for the left and right motion; key position ( t-handle) : 0px; final motion: 0x and 0x again for the left and right value.
now i hit "preview".: the logo is "pinned" at the correct position, i can scroll but the logo stays where it is. so far so good….
now i select all the four elements again and go to the scroll effecs tab. at "final motion", i click the down arrows and enter 1x. I hit Preview…
when i am scrolling down the WHOLE logo goes down…. so far so good.
NOW i want the first part of the logo to go down, THEN the second part to go left, THEN the third part to go up, THEN the fourth part to go right.
so i select ONLY the first part, go to the scroll motion tab, at "final motion" i click the left arrows, then i enter 1x.( the up-down value, i set to 0 again).. i hit Preview…
the first part of the logo goes left as soon as i start scrolling, the other three parts still go down at the same time…
NOW i want the second part of the logo to start moving, when the first part has left the scene, not at the same time as the first part.
SO I SELECT THE SECOND PART AND DRAG ITS T-HANDLE (KEY POSITION) DOWN TO, LETS SAY, 200PX. SO IT STARTS MOVING ONLY AFTER THE CUSTOMER HAS REACHED THAT POINT, RIGHT?
BUT WHEN I PREVIEW THAT ****, THE LOGO IS NOT TOGETHER ANYMORE, THE SECOND PART IS FLOATING ANYWHERE ELSE BUT WHERE IT SHOULD BE…..WTFF????
short: when i move the t handle, the initial position of the object changes. thats what i said to the adobe employee, but he said, that thats the expected behavior….
but if thats so, how can i have my four parts correctly together, so they form my logo, but with different t handles, so that they all start to move at different times??
Pleeease help me, i am dying of frustration here…..:( that behavior cant be right, right?
Thanks so much to everyone who actually reads this post and tries to help…….
All the best,
Niki Lapan

Thank you so much for helping,
But i really wonder how you did that. did you always switch between design view and preview view, then change the key position for 2px then switch back, to align the four letters? because i imagine that can get really frustrating, if you have a logo consisting of 58 parts instead of 4!:)
Anyway thank you very much for your time and effort!!!!

Where can I find detailed, systematic HELP for advanced topics relating to Thunderbird?

In moving from XP to Windows 7, I opted for Thunderbird as email client in order to bypass Microsoft's hyper-intrusive Windows Live Mail (I used Outlook Express for years).
I have a very complicated email structure, and it's taken me weeks (seriously) to learn how to replicate it in TBird. Now I'm trying to customize TBird further, but none of the TBird articles/forum Q&A's/Google searches address my questions.
There is no live tech support for TBird, and I'm just about ready to leave it for good. However -- one last effort: where can I find detailed, systematic HELP for advanced topics relating to Thunderbird?
Thanks.

I am no expert, but I don't know of any authoritative reference as to what elements of HTML and CSS are supported in Thunderbird. However, as I believe you appreciate, it's more than just what Thunderbird supports, but one must also think about what is likely to work in other email clients. Keep it simple. Avoid ancient deprecated tags that other email clients may not support, and for similar reasons, avoid cutting edge technology. Remember that recipients using tablets or smartphones won't appreciate large fancy email documents.
The only thing ''guaranteed'' to work in email is plain text. ;-)
If you haven't already discovered it, the Stationery add-on is designed specifically to support OE stationery in Thunderbird. Your existing stationery may "just work" in this add-on. It makes switching between various stationery templates much easier, but I'm not confident that it will affect interpretation of your CSS or HTML coding.
Your code is at least clean and minimal. Most times my involvement with troublesome templates and signatures centres on the horrible bloat and mso custom code generated by Word or Outlook.
Having said that, you and I are mortal enemies, as I don't have much patience with what you aspire to achieve. I specifically don't like background images, nor being obliged to suffer other folks' bizarre choice of typefaces and colours (but your simple 12pt black Tahoma is quite inoffensive. ;-) ) I'm of an age where my tolerance and eyesight are easily offended.
Nonetheless, I'm intrigued by how to parse the tag for the background image, as it doesn't look like a legitimate pathname to a graphics file. Does the background image actually appear as required?

App-V 5.0 Sequencing Office 2010 - Cannot verify the License for this Application KMS

Hey Guys,
i already found some Topics about my Problem, but None of the Solutions i have found, help in my case. I hope someone can help...
I Sequenced Office 2010 Professional Plus x86 on an App-V 5.0 Sequencer Client (x64) and streamed it to Windows 7 x64 and Windows Server 2012. While i was sequencing, i followed the Articles at
http://blogs.technet.com/b/office_resource_kit/archive/2011/06/15/sequencing-office-2010-for-app-v-part-1-considerations.aspx and also used the Parameter:
msiexec/i OffVirt.msi ADDLOCAL=Click2runMapi,Click2runOWSSupp,Click2runWDS,OSpp,OSpp_Core PROPLUS=1
In the sequencing Process anything ist working fine, i can start Word, Excel... and Office is activated. When i publish the Application and stream to the Client or RDS, i get the Error message in the Screenshot.
I also tried to create a new Package and type in the KMS Client Key directly to Office, didnt work. In a third Sequencing Process (also new Sequence) i tried with an another Script what i have found: msiexec /i OffVirt.msi PROPLUS=1 KMSSERVICENAME=”SERVERNAME”
KMSSERVICEPORT=1688
Please help!!
Best regards

I am having this same exact issue; however, I have done everything in the App-V 5.0 Sequencing document, and I have enabled Set-AppVClientConfiguration -EnablePackageScripts 1.
The sequencer is on a Win 7 32-bit machine, so I used the following:
msiexec
/i OffVirt.msi ADDLOCAL=OSpp,OSpp_Core PROPLUS=1
KMS is registered in DNS, so I shouldn't have to specify KMS.
As soon as I start Office on a machine, setup screen comes up briefly, and then I see the:
"Microsoft Office cannot verify the license for this application. A repair attempt failed or was canceled by the user. The application will now shut down."
I would use the package accelerator; however, it's a new Pro Plus 2010 build, and it says 12 files are missing from the install (files like the actual OffVirt.msi and manifest files).
This is getting a little frustrating, as I've already tried the package 4 different times. I also tried this version:
msiexec/i OffVirt.msi ADDLOCAL=Click2runMapi,Click2runOWSSupp,Click2runWDS,OSpp,OSpp_Core PROPLUS=1
I am also using the latest SP2 client, Sequencer, and then the AppV 5.0 SP1 server is using the latest hotfix 4 which was released in April 2014.

Why doesn't SAP use SAPUI5 for this and that

This is my personal opinion about this topic! Again and again I stumble about this and now I want to share some of my thoughts about this topic. I want to share this from a point of view, when I was not a SAP Employee - I worked at a SAP Partner company - because this best reflects the view from the outside.
1. SAP "wants" us to use SAPUI5
I don't think that "wants" is the right word - the right word is offers! In terms of: hey now even included in your license and open sourced (because you wanted it so). Look - we build sooo many Fiori apps with it - and put in some great enterprise features (right to left, accessibility, translation, ...) and it is responsive. So if you want to build Fiori-like "apps" - there you go - this is your technology to go! This is what I understood.
I was very very very happy that it was build with open standards. But the main point for me another thing - (because I worked with Sybase Unwired Platform and SAP Mobile Platform) OMG an open data protocol!!! OData FTW! I could use ANY front-end technology and consume SAP data - the protocol is REST based - a dream came true. And so I did - yes I played around with Sencha Touch and OData, I used data.js and used it in a standard HTML5 application. We played around with an iOS application we already had and consumed the data. I feed the data into d3.js. I prototyped around with SAPUI5 and I have build apps with it. Brilliant, so I could choose whatever UI technology I wanted.
I always had the feeling, that SAPUI5 was meant for B2E applications - and building many of that - and they should look and feel the same and I can theme the apps. I can use it when I want to make my applications SAP like - so that the user thinks the apps are all the same and everything fits nicely into the Fiori launchpad - great if you want to build partner apps. In my ex company we won a SAP Pinnacle Award - for a native iOS app, no SAPUI5 in sight - but we have received an award, so SAP did not "want us" to use SAPUI5 ;-)
2. Is it the right UI technology for everything?
At my ex-company I was dealing with mobile applications and web apps. I always knew that I get the best user experience when I write a real native application and if you want it to look like in a very specific way with awesome UI --> you would not do it with a write-once-run-everywhere HTML5 super-styled wrapped (phone gap/cordova) app - you would write the apps for the specific platform and it should feel like it was written for the platform. SAP offered us the SAP Fiori Client that I could enhance the user experience for the Fiori apps, but I was never told to use SAPUI5 it for everything.
The same discussion goes on with: why was the new SAP website not build with SAPUI5, or the UX Explorer (eat your own dog food), or a useful internal app - why Angular, or the other way around why do we even use SAPUI5 and not Angular JS itself. Back to the past - SAP did never tell me to build a website with it, or to build something tiny and small with it (a widget) - or to enhance parts of a website with it - or to build something super-specific with it.
And yes maybe the UI in a mobile app was not SAPUI5 but do you know if it uses Gateway with OData or the SAP Mobile Platform, was the API managed with Apigee, was HCI involved in getting the data from different sources, was it maybe wrapped with SAP Mobile Secure, did it maybe use a HANA backend or some of its features (predictions, text analytics, ...) - are some backend parts maybe hosted on HCP - who knows? So yeah, maybe other SAP technology was involved which you don't see, but in the end it made your life simpler.
Instead of arguing around why this and that was used for this and that - can we save our energy and instead look at the result - which is all what counts - that it was the right UI technology with the right user interface which makes the user happy? I stated something like - does Google use AngularJS for everything? Nope. They offer us something great we can use. Right, maybe AngularJS is not as important for Google like SAPUI5 is for us. But we have something with which we can build our day-to-day business apps with and we do so.
3. We missed great opportunity in not using SAPUI5 for this and that
Let's think about how projects are going: you want something, you look at the costs, you choose most efficient option. Yes this could mean reusing an existing native application which was written long ago and you pimped it up. Or you had outsourced it to a company which wrote a similar app. Or you bought the source code. Or you have some cheap internal staff which could do it (students, trainee), or you could outsource it cheaply. Or all you have is people with experience in this and that technology. Or it must look in a very very specific way (because marketing says so) and you go native. Or it maybe should even differentiate itself and should look NOT like a Fiori app. And no - I don't think - this is my employees view - we are not for example an event app producer. We normally build business applications. And I don't think that we can write an app from scratch "just" for an event in a certain technology. Yes it would be nice if this and that would use SAPUI5, I think if it would be possible in terms of time and costs and UI wishes and hundreds of other factors we would do it with SAPUI5.
Working at the partner SAP showed me over 50 Fiori apps, now hundreds of Fiori apps are released. SAP now showed that SAPUI5 is going big with S/4HANA. We have seen the Simple Finance solution. I was walking around at the CeBIT this year and I was impressed myself which cool apps and screens have been shown with SAPUI5. I used the SAPUI5 app on a Samsung Smart Watch myself. The SAP Web IDE itself is built with SAPUI5 in its heart. I don't need any other "proves" that SAPUI5 is great. I have seen great use cases for it, but I also know myself when I would use other stuff.
4. My conclusion
There is never every anything which can cover all different use cases. One-size-fits-all clothes also does not fit for everyone even if it says so. If someone creates something great don't judge it by the UI technology. Judge it by the experience and the value it creates. There are reasons why this and that was chosen. Use what fits your needs best with your requirements. Make the end user happy!

Hey Denise,
Thanks for pulling this discussion into SCN. Makes it much easier to discuss compared to Twitter. But I also have to apologize in the beginning that my answer now exceeds 140 characters by 50 times.
Let me share my thoughts and personal opinion as well. I will try to look at it from a strategic point of view, as you – as the technical UI5 expert - have already covered the technical perspective.
SAP recommends using SAPUI5 where it fits to customers’ requirements
Let me begin with a clear statement from my perspective: It makes no sense that SAP takes customer decisions.
Of course, customers expect SAP to help them with their strategies and decisions and of course we are helping. But at the end, the decisions have to be taken by the customer who needs to take the specific conditions of the company into account. The most important condition in the context of UX is the end user. But we shouldn't forget the business strategy as the most important influence factor. I’m not saying that technical decisions are completely unimportant, but I would like to point out that other things are more important for a company.
As a result, it wouldn't make a lot of sense if SAP would just want every customer to use SAPUI5. To me, customers need recommendations leading to solutions that satisfy their needs and requirements.
There is not that one UI technology that serves all needs
This headline might be a challenging statement and I can already imagine reactions to it. But in fact I can confirm this sentence easily. You always have to combine different technologies. Some of them are from SAP others not. The selection and combination of these technologies is different from customer to customer because the requirements are different. There are still reasons to use Web Dynpro ABAP and I’m still recommending SAP NetWeaver Business Client, POWL (Power Lists), WDA Chips, FPM based on the given environment of the customer. And obviously there are also reasons for UI5.
SAP already proves the usage of SAPUI5
In general, I see two different use cases here: Developing custom applications vs. adopting applications from SAP.
In the one case, customers want recommendations on development environments and UI technologies that consider their development requirements and existing conditions (e.g. existing skills, given implementations). SAPUI5 is a great UI technology and there are some special aspects that make the decision obviously easy. If I want to create simple business applications that can be connected with my SAP system easily, especially in combination under responsive conditions on multiple devices and targeted for casual and/or occasional users UI5 might be the right choice for many. Exactly this pattern is what many customers are searching for these days. So, the recommendation for UI5 comes quite often.
Whether or not SAP proves the usage of SAPUI5 in their own world is to me more connected to the use case where customers want to adopt SAP applications. And in deed, SAP is using SAPUI5. There are hundreds of SAP Fiori applications that have been built with SAPUI5 and there have been a lot of other applications developed using SAPUI5, too. And again, there is a huge need for applications for casual and/or occasional users, so that’s a big reason for SAP to create such applications.
Websites vs. Business Applications
This discussion was triggered by some statements in twitter, that SAP sites such as sap.com, SAP UX Explorer or the latest mobile conference app are not developed using UI5. Actually I see these to be websites but not business applications. I have never told a customer to build a website in UI5 and I would continue to do so.
Maybe we need to discuss the difference between a website and a business application. I guess it is not easy to find a common understanding here, as the borderlines between several worlds have disappeared in the last years.
Some years ago it was more or less easy to differ between:
Native desktop applications running on a specific desktop OS
Native mobile applications running on a specific mobile OS
Browser-based applications running in specific browsers
Websites, basically running on many browsers
In the first three categories we saw business applications. 1 and 2 were selected especially when specific functions of the device and OS where needed to be accessed (for example the camera of the mobile device, the fast rendering capability of the desktop). 3 was also used for business applications but in most cases on desktop browsers.
Today, one can develop browser-based applications that look like native applications and even can access the devices like native applications. Responsive design breaks the borderlines even more. Now, browser-based content can be rendered perfectly on a desktop browser as well as on a mobile phone and a user might even not be able to judge whether it was originally intended to be developed for the one or the other.
So maybe there is no big difference anymore between websites and browser-based applications. But there is still a difference between browser-based applications and browser-based business applications, where additional requirements such as integration into business systems are drivers. Here I see SAPUI5 as a very cool UI technology.
That’s just my 2 (personal) cents,
JJ

When you update you iOS, have you seen this error message: not eligible for this build? The serial

Dear Mr. Jobs,
My husband has been an avid supporter of Apple, having purchased a great deal from you over the past many years. Personally, I have been an iPhone user since it was introduced a few years ago.
In July 2010, I stood in line at the Apple Store in the Stanford Shopping Center to purchase the iPhone 4. In February of this year, I tried to update the iPhone and got the 'sign of death'. My iPhone turned into a piece of brick and I was not able to make any phone calls, which at that time, was very inconvenient. I remember having to coordinate a pick up at the airport early the next morning and my phone was dead. Apparently, in trying to update the phone, it corrupted the firmware and I could no longer activate that phone. It was a frustrating experience on the eve that I had to go to the airport and I spent hours trying to see if there is anything that I could do to get the phone back in working order.
The following day, I made an appointment with the genius and my husband and I took the iPhone to the Stanford Apple Store to see if there was a problem with the phone. Without hesitation, we were asked if we purchased the phone overseas. Of course, as Asians, they probably thought that we purchased it in the black market in China. After hearing our response, their next question was whether we hacked the phone. Why would they bring up these issues? Rather than immediately delving into the problem, we found it very annoying that the employees would tried to divert Apple's problem to us. After trying to diagnose the problem, they gave us a new phone and activated it using their in-store computer.
We took the phone home, thinking that the problem had been solved. When we got home, we tried to update the iPhone to no avail. The firmware was corrupted and we had to once again, bring the phone back to the Apple Store in the Oakridge Mall in San Jose. The Apple employee told my husband to go to the AT&T store, as there was potentially a SIM problem. My husband went to the AT&T Store and was told that they couldn't help him, as the SIM was fine. They did, however, replace the SIM so that there would be no issue.
In April, when there was an upgrade to the iPhone software, we once again tried to update the software and was unable to. Once again, the firmware was corrupted and we were forced to take the phone back to the Stanford store. Again, they asked us if we purchased the phone overseas. Why? They could have easily looked at the records, but no, your records are so bad that you are unable to pull it up. That afternoon, we spent four hours at the store, updating the OS on the computer as well as updating the iPhone. They assured us that they solved the problem.
This past weekend, as there was another update to the iPhone software, we were once again unable to update it and were forced to take it back to Apple. Again, we were asked, did you buy the phone overseas. It's very frustrating and annoying to repeatedly get asked that question. After a series of back and forth communications between the genius and my husband, we were told that they didn't know what the problem was. This time, we told them that we would not be leaving the store until they solved the problem. We have an Apple computer and an Apple iPhone, so 'Apple' should find the source of the problem and fix it once and for all. The genius then suggested that we migrate the data from my computer to my husband's computer and try to update the phone using my husband's computer. We didn't accept that answer.
Our genius then asked the help of a second genius and after taking his suggestion, they found that the serial number for my iPhone had been assigned to France Telecom. Once again, they asked if we bought the phone overseas. Why? Please train your employees to not accuse the customers of doing this. Many of us are honest and we take offense to this. In fact, we told them that we purchased the phone from the Stanford Store (where we were at). After looking for the record, they said that we must not have purchased it from them. The onus, then, was up to us to prove that the phone was, in fact, purchased from the Stanford Store. Fortunately, my husband saved the email and was able to show the genius that the phone was purchased from them. How could your records be so poor as not to be able to find our purchase?
After two hours at the store, we were told that we, not Apple Stanford, had to call customer care to resolve the problem. Being that this is an Apple problem, I would have expected Apple to follow up on our behalf. Why is it that the customer has to spend additional time to deal with an issue that was caused by Apple.
My husband has been dealing with customer care, who apparently has escalated the problem to other divisions within the organization. It's been two days and the problem still has not been resolved. In fact, the answer remains that they are not sure how to resolve the problem. Why can't you update your system and redo the record so that I can go on in peace. Every time I try to update the software, I'm afraid that I won't have a working phone. Do you blame me?
This has been one of the worst experiences that I have had with an Apple product and it still is not over. Collectively, my husband and I have spent over 25 hours dealing with this issue both at home and at various Apple Stores. It has been a hassle having to go from place to place, having to sync the phone multiple times, having to update the software multiple times on both the computer and iPhone and ultimately, not having it fixed once and for all. Please let me know how you expect to compensate us for this experience and how and when you expect to fix my iPhone issues.
Mr. Jobs, I know that you expect perfection from your team. This has been a tremendous waste of time for my husband and me and has been a less than stellar experience.
Regards,
Lea Anne Ng

With that one, I'd check on your Hosts file on your PC, Lea.
Follow iTunes: Advanced iTunes Store troubleshooting to edit the hosts file or revert to default on Windows. See section "Blocked by configuration: (Mac OS X/Windows) > Rebuild network information".

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