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…
Microsoft Build conference is currently running and full of announcements. You can read the in the book of news published by Microsoft to get an overview. One of the most impactful announcements concerns Azure apps. You can now run Azure application services (App Service, Functions, Logic Apps, Event Grid, API Read more…
With CAP, SAP has a nice, modern development model. One of the benefits is that it is using a modern architecture combined with commonly used tools. While the default usage scenario for CAP is focused on SAP and their strategy (Cloud Foundry, HANA, BTP), it’s open architecture allows to run Read more…
“It’s 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it’s dark and we’re wearing sunglasses” Blues Brothers Through a tweet from the SAP Community I came to read a blog from SAP’s Chief Learning Officer Max Wessel. In the blog he lays Read more…
There are many alternatives available to achieve single sign-on to a NetWeaver (ABAP) system. I’ve already demonstrated these at DSAG AK Development as well as documented almost all of them in my blog. For instance, take a look at SAML 2.0, X.509 based logon or OAuth 2.0. All of the Read more…