If you start me up If you start me up I’ll never stop Start me up – Rolling Stones Remember Windows 95 and the start me up commercials? Fast forward a few decades and we have now Windows 11 (maybe Microsoft is using obscure imperial measures for counting?). And SAP Read more…
After SAP decided last year on their own to not only moving away from their mobile hybrid SDK Kapsel, but to also end the Fiori Mobile Client (FMC), their mobile customers were not profusely grateful. While for FMC, SAP moved away from their decision and considered customer demands, the problem Read more…
The SAP NetWeaver ABAP Developer Edition needs a valid NetWeaver license (a license can be obtained from www.sap.com/minisap). The 7.5x Dev Edition on ASE is provided with a developer user. While renewing the license is easy, you have to follow exactly the steps outlined in Julie Plummer’s blog: “IMPORTANT: To Read more…
Recently I developed a standalone OpenUI5 app. An app that is accessed without a Fiori Launchpad and has its own index.html on the web server. Of course, I develop the app using a pipeline. And of course, one of the steps is to get the source code analyzed for issues. Read more…
Problem The HANA indexserver fails to start. ./HDB start You get the error message that the index server failed to start. You can try to start the indexserver manually. cd /usr/sap/HDB/HDB02/exe ./hdbindexserver Indexserver is still failing to start, however now shows a more detailed error description (ignore the DBNAME part). Read more…
A developer creates a new OData service (code, definition, implementation) in the backend and adds everything to a transport package. After transporting an OData service from DEV to QA in the backend, the service is not usable in QA as the system alias for the OData service is missing. While Read more…
Event information Location: ReCAP 2021, online Date: 19.10.2019 Site: Event website Title: CAP outside SAP Presentation: PDF Additional information CAP is open in terms of its architecture. It can run on any platform that meets the runtime requirements like Node.js. For the database, an open source driver cds-pg is available. Read more…
First week of SAPPHIRE is over and the second one is about to start today. SAP honored us with an opening keynote followed by 4 days focused on topic tracks. As always, an immense amount of information was provided. Luxury problem: find the important pieces of information and do not Read more…
The first week of SAPPHIRE NOW is behind us. Besides a keynote SAP is bringing several topic focused keynotes and sessions to the different regions in the world. I’ll try to cover the keynote(s) and impressions in a later blog. To bridge the time until then, I decided to write Read more…
In case you are following SAP and CAP related topics, you noticed that the CAP enthusiasts are still trying to convince SAP to make CAP available under an open source license. SAP, at the same time, is declining the request. While I’d welcome having CAP as open source very much, Read more…