Recently I faced a problem with SAP Business Application Studio. For solving it, I used Google. And I found an SAP Note: 3030549. The note contains a section about the affected products. Of course, it lists SAP Business Application Studio. What I found interesting was that the note also specifies Read more…
Attention: SAP changed the service. To find out if a user is valid, you have to add check at the end. Verify was replaced by check. The url is now: https://core-api.account.sap.com/uid-core/employee/<id>/check In my previous blog post I wrote about my experience regarding SAP Universal ID logon. To my surprise SAP Read more…
Account enumeration For a long time, SAP thought that a user Id should contain a number (and still does). The D, I, C or S-Users are based on a number, and so are the P-Users everyone was able to get by registering at SCN. Enabling attackers to guess a valid Read more…
The series of official SAP events in 2023 ended with TechEd. The AI marketing journey started already Q4 2022. In those 12 months, AI was everywhere. Not because AI was in the news thanks to SAP and their intelligent ERP. The news and expectations regarding AI were driven by others. Read more…
This week I was made aware of a problem someone faced while learning UI5. The person went through the walkthrough tutorial of UI5. Step 30 is about routing and navigation. The person copy & pasted the routing coding and faced a problem: the app stopped working. Running the example directly Read more…
Before you can use ATC to analyze your coding, the simplification DB must be uploaded. If not, ATC will show an error when you try to run a code analysis. The steps needed to obtain and upload the simplification DB are documented at SAP Help and in SAP Note 2241080. Read more…
In case you have the chance to add an S/4HANA migration or implementation project to your CV, you’ll sooner or later hear the words greenfield and brownfield. They describe the approach on how to implement SAP S/4HANA. Greenfield: start with a new S/4HANA system. Everything is new. Apps, code, processes, Read more…
Accessing the SAP development tools site gives you access to a wide range of useful and maintained tools for developers. Private privacy In the header toolbar are some legal links, like legal disclosure or privacy. Clicking the privacy link leads to an access protected page. Without providing credentials, you don’t Read more…
Back to standard is the leading principle* in every S/4HANA project. A common question at meetings is*: can this be achieved using SAP standard? But why? Everybody involved in an SAP project, and mostly customers*, know that it is not possible to continue to use SAP solutions like they were Read more…
When SAP announced their RISE for SAP offering, I a stated that this is a good idea for SAP. It allows SAP to get a seat at the table when their customers are discussing their transformation roadmap with their partners. A scenario where customers define their future landscape and SAP Read more…