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Activating the ClickJacking-Framing-Protection service

By Tobias Hofmann February 8, 2018 Posted in SAP

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When you start the transaction SAML2 in your SAP NetWeaver ABAP system, you might geht the error message:

ERROR: ICF-Service für ClickJacking-Framing-Protection ist inaktiv (termination: ERROR_MESSAGE_STATE)

/sap/bc/webdynpro/sap/saml2?sap-client=xxx

The solution can be found in SAP Note 2389051 🔗. Activate the ICF node UICS and its child whitelist: /sap/public/bc/uics

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Activate the node with sub nodes.

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This will activate both services.

Go back to your browser with the HTTP 500 error and reload the page. Now the SAML 2.0 configuration wizard will launch.

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Alternative activation option

You may also activate this ICF node using an alternative approach. Instead of activating it in the SICF transaction, you can use a transaction for activating special ICF services. More information at SAP Help 🔗.

Transaction SICF_INST
Technical name: UICS_BASIC

When you run this transaction with the technical name UICS_BASIC, the ICF node will be activated.

Result: