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One mobile platform to rule them all?

Mobile platforms promise to help creating and running mobile apps. Mobile apps connect to the mobile platform, consume services and backends made available by the platform. They are offered by several vendors. For instance, SAP offers SAP mobile services in the SAP Cloud Platform, Oracle has mobile hub. It’s an Read more…

By Tobias Hofmann, 3 months3 months ago
Mobile SAP

The barcode scanner incident

SAP decided to pull the plug on the hybrid SDK Kapsel for their mobile platform (on premise and cloud). You could see that this would come since 2018, when SAP reduced the support cycles for Kapsel to 2 years. While version 3.0 was supported for 5 years, since then it Read more…

By Tobias Hofmann, 3 months3 months ago
Basis SAP

SAP NetWeaver SNI configuration

To show a correct configuration and to be able to connect to a HTTP service that needs SNI support enabled, I’ll connect my NetWeaver ABAP system to a public OData service. You can read my blogs for more information on SNI in general and SNI with NetWeaver ABAP. Scenario and Read more…

By Tobias Hofmann, 4 months4 months ago
Basis SAP

SAP NetWeaver is not cloud ready

Now that I have your attention with the blog title. The longer version is “SAP NetWeaver is not cloud ready because of default SNI configuration in NW releases that use a kernel prior to version 777.” In case you are wondering how to solve the SNI problem here is the Read more…

By Tobias Hofmann, 4 months4 months ago
SAP

We don’t need no education

Another brick in the wall, pt.2 Pink Floyd (Youtube) One of the more pleasant surprises at SAP TechEd 2020 was the free access to selected learning journeys as a Learning Hub (LH) subscription (*). With this offer, SAP TechEd participants get free access to selected SAP learning material until end Read more…

By Tobias Hofmann, 4 months4 months ago
SAP

No milk today, it wasn’t always so the company was gay, we’d turn night into day

Title taken from the song: “No milk today” – Herman’s Hermits (Youtube) The first ever all virtual SAP TechEd happened from 8 – 10 December and was a 48 hours event. It was a free event, open to everyone and covered a wide range of topics in several sessions and Read more…

By Tobias Hofmann, 4 months4 months ago
SAP

Core values of SCP services

The weeks after I wrote my thoughts down about SAP Cloud Platform (SCP) and what should change were quite interesting. Triggered by the official end of SCP Neo trial I wrote down what I think is missing in SAP’s SCP offering. My two blogs laid out the overall idea: ease Read more…

By Tobias Hofmann, 6 months6 months ago
Basis SAP Security

Troubleshooting SAML 2.0 – Error getting number

Szenario A trust between the SAML 2.0 IdP and SP is created. A user tries to log on for the first time to NetWeaver ABAP and after successfully logging in at the IdP, logging at the SP fails. The SAMLResponse is validated without errors, the NetWeaver ABAP system cannot create Read more…

By Tobias Hofmann, 6 months7 months ago
Basis SAP Security

Troubleshooting SAML 2.0 – Update a federated user

Szenario Users are able to logon to NetWeaver ABAP via SAML 2.0 and get their user created automatically. A user information is now changed in the IdP and the corresponding information in NetWeaver must now be updated the next time the user logs on. Problem Updating the user information in Read more…

By Tobias Hofmann, 7 months7 months ago
Basis SAP Security

Troubleshooting SAML 2.0 – Method create_user_to_federate throws exception

Szenario A trust between the SAML 2.0 IdP and SP is created. A user tries to log on to NetWeaver and after successfully logging in at the IdP, the SP is denying access. Problem An error in the BAdI create_user_to_federate is thrown. Exception type CX_SY_REF_IS_INITIAL. Trace Use the diag tool Read more…

By Tobias Hofmann, 7 months7 months ago

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