Updating a system with SUM is as easy as walking into Mordor. Upgrading a SPS needs you to have a stack XML and when you put SCAs that are signed into a folder, you still have to ensure that SUM can verify the validity of the files. To do so, SUM Read more…
NWDS 7.3/7.4 uses the update site concept of Eclipse. This makes it easier to update NWDS as an updated component only needs to be updated at the central update site. No need to distribute a whole NWDS installation package to the developers. The NWDS update site even includes a zip Read more…
2 intense days at SITSL and DKOM São Leopoldo, and still: I feel happy. DKOM happened on 31.3 and 1.4 2015, with SAP Inside Track São Leopoldo co-hosted on 1.4. Why on 1.4? Wednesday was the open day. Partners and clients were allowed to participate. Thanks to Fabio Serrano for Read more…
Partiu galera! SAP has this awesome global developer focused internal event named DKOM. This is my 1st year as an SAP employee and it will be the first time I attend DKOM in real life. Being an SAP Mentor I had the chance to participate in previous DKOM events, but Read more…
Today I came across a strange error when logging in to NWBC, or to be accurate, trying to log on to NWBC. The IE developer toolbar showed me that the JS failed, caused by an error message: “The system cannot find the path specified”. This error only occurred with Internet Read more…
To run SAP Portal on the standard web ports 80 and 443 you should use Web Dispatcher. In that case, WD runs on the privileged ports and SAP Portal / NetWeaver Java / ICM continue to run on their usual 5nnXX ports. Changing the ports directly on ICM of NetWeaver Read more…
To test a hybrid app for SUP 2.x or SMP 2.x on the emulator, you need to have the HWC app installed. The app is part of the SDK and delivered in source code and as a installable APK file. Creating a new emulator is easy, but how to install Read more…
SAP Web Dispatcher (WD) is the entry point of your users that access your web enabled applications. These can be any HTML service or app you have running on NetWeaver, or other systems like HANA XS. For over a decade WD offers reverse proxy functionality for SAP systems, and while Read more…
This document explains how to install and configure an environment for analyzing SAP Web Dispatcher (WD) logs with logstash, elasticsearch and Kibana under Linux. Kibana 3 needs a running web server. The example shown here is using nginx, but won’t detail how to set up nginx. Components referred to in Read more…
SMP 3 connects to a authentication provider using SSL. For SMP 3 to be able to connect successfully to the SSL enabled backend service, the server certificate of that backend must be installed in SMP 3. This means to install the certificate into the keystore used by SMP 3. The Read more…