Use of SAP license mechanism is no longer mandatory

Partner-developed add-ons are no longer required to use the SAP license mechanism. Although the SAP license mechanism is still available to those partners who would like to use it, the use of the mechanism is no longer required. Partners who wish to use their own license mechanism instead of SAPu2019s are welcome to do so. Partners developing any add-on solution are strongly encouraged to apply for a namespace from SAP, which helps prevent conflicts between partner products.

Hello,
I am software developer working for a small company that uses SAP BO 2005A in the finance and sales department.
I recently discovered the SAP SDK installed on our machines (server and PC's), and after some research and looking at people's sample code here, I have successfully written a small Visual Basic application that could create Sales Orders automatically, saving the company time not having to do the manual entry.
Would anyone know if I would be breaking any SAP contract or agreement if I was to run my little application ?
Do I need to be accredited to use the SDK?
Much appreciated.
Ed Roman
Melbourne - Australia

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I want to develop a license mechanism for my addon as like as SAP license (can assign license to specific user). Anyone knows how can I start or where can I find the guidence or any web site that explain about how to create license for .net application?
Appreciate if you can give me the link or advice on how to create license like SAP license mechanism.

Dear Mat
In the SDN Business One page: SAP Business One - SAP Developer Network
Click on the "SAP Business One eLearning" link (on the right side)
Than click on the "Packaging and Licensing" link
Than click on the "SAP Business One Licensing" link
An eLearning presentation will be displayed.
I hope it would be helpful.
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Hello ,
How to get information whether the system SAP License has expired or not .So that if expired then the addon will not work .
By using which function i cen get that information .
Thanks,
Amit

Amit,
If you are looking to find this information out via code ... you should review this blog ...
/people/lisa.mulchinock/blog/2009/05/08/sap-business-one-license-api
Other than via code, I believe you would get a warning when the user tried to log in that the license expired.
Eddy

Why does BR*Tools return with the error, No Valid SAP license?

We are using BRTools 640 on HPUX and Oracle 9.2 Now we use BRTools on the other systems where Oracle resides, but when they got installed on this new system it creates the error: Invalid SAP license.
There is no SAP installed on any of the systems. I am coming into the middle of this and have sratched my head over it until I am now balder than I was before.
The ora<SID> user is there and so is the <SID>adm. The directories are ok with the correct rights and permissions. So what am I missing? I know it has to be something that I am missing. Any help out there?
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Hi Ravinder,
No this did not resolve the issue. Here is what happen.
Implemented note 586618 and then completed the semophore part. That worked as is it should. Then tired a simple BRARCHIVE and this is what I got:
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BR0006I Start of offline redo log processing: adsweyuy.svd 2006-06-19 14.30.40
BR0925I Public synonym SAP_SDBAH created successfully for table SAPBIX.SDBAH
BR0925I Public synonym SAP_SDBAD created successfully for table SAPBIX.SDBAD
BR0925I Public synonym SAP_MLICHECK created successfully for table SAPBIX.MLICHECK
BR0602E No valid SAP license found - please contact SAP
BR0280I BRARCHIVE time stamp: 2006-06-19 14.30.41
BR0301W SQL error -980 at location BraDbLogOpen-5
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BR0324W Insertion of database log header failed
BR0007I End of offline redo log processing: adsweyuy.svd 2006-06-19 14.30.41
BR0280I BRARCHIVE time stamp: 2006-06-19 14.30.41
BR0005I BRARCHIVE terminated with errors
This is somewhat irritating because as you I though and you probably did also, note 584418 should have fixed it.
I have searched the OSS, but to no avail..so if you have any suggestions it would be appreciated. The really weird thing is it works on other systems. I think something is just missing and I am just too blind right now to see it.
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SAP license key error: no valid license found: cannot log into SAP GUI

I deleted temp license from slicense on SM box, since I had already installed new digital license from SAP. Well, later I tried to log in again and was locked out. After some research, I found "sap license check failed" in the log files, java will not come up, and the hardware key has changed on me, so the valid license that was active before is not showing up now.
I applied for a new license with new hardware key and attempted to install from cmd prompt, using saplicense -install ifile=c:license.txt, but it gets an error. I put a trace on it and appears it cannot read license file key. I also tried to install another temp license, but that failed since no other previous valid license was found. At this point, I'm thinking I need to manually insert the license key into the database, but not sure what table or exactly how. SAP has not provided a solution yet.
I believe the hardware key changed due to renaming the server (we took out a hyphen in name) and had also reinstalled afterwards.
Has anyone else run into this issue?

Yes, I wish it were that simple, but I cannot even bring up the logon screen. SAP GUI returns a message, resource temporarily unavailable. I looked in SAP MMC syslog and found several entries, "SAP-Basis System: No license found for hardware ID DLIC_HWIDKE"
I tried to install temp license from cmd prompt, but it says refuses and says no old or expired license found. I also tried to install the new license I applied for from SAP with new hardware key using saplicense -install ifile=license.txt and that failed as well.
For NW2004s, is it even possible to install a digital license using cmd prompt?
Ben

JNI - How to use the error reporting mechanism?

I've developed a C++ DLL which is loaded from a commercial Win32 application (not written by me) as a plug-in for external calculations. On its initialization the C++ DLL launches the Java VM via the JNI invocation interface. When the DLL functions are called by the application, they forward the calls to Java objects inside the Java VM, again via JNI invocation interface.
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All the calls between C++ and Java go ALWAYS in the direction from C++ code to Java. Unfortunately, there is no special JRE version with extensive logging capabilities to facilitate debugging. And the problem is not easily reproducible either.
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Read SAP table data outside of SAP, without a SAP license

Hello all,
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We have hundreds of user on our production system, and several developer user and have been go live several years ago (SAP R/3) and proceed license audit annualy.
Typically, license audit is calculated by the number of user on your production system and the number of developer user on your (development) system. Hence, the number of usual user (which is not developer user) on your test system should not be brought into SAP license audit calculation.
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