SAP is ending the SAP Cloud Platform Neo (SCP Neo) Trial and for everyone to learn and try out SCP services, the SCP Cloud Foundry (SCP CF) Trial is the only offering left. I wrote down my thoughts on this and why I think that the free trial approach is Read more…
SAP Help In the previous blog I detailed the BADI provided by SAP for creating and updating a user that logs on via SAML 2.0 and what to take care of. In this blog I’ll detail how to implement the BADI. The implementation means that some ABAP coding is needed. Read more…
The BADI you have to extend to be able to create or update a user in the SAP NW system based on the SAML 2.0 information is BADI_SAML20_USER_CREATE_UPDATE. It offers two methods, one for creating a new user, one for updating an existing user. Keep in mind that the SAP Read more…
SAP decided to end SAP Cloud Platform (SCP) Neo trial some time ago and now also communicated the date when they will plug the plug: 13th November 2020. SAP announced long ago that they are investing in the SCP cloud foundry stack (SCP CF), and that Neo is out of Read more…
In letzter Zeit habe ich mein home office etwas “besser” eingerichtet. Will sagen: ich habe damit angefangen es einzurichten. Vor Corona war es nur das Arbeitslaptop. Ich habe jetzt einen Drucker (Farblaser), einen zweiten Monitor, Kopfhörer sowie ein Mikrofon. Und einen separaten Schreibtisch! Zum Mikrofon eines gleich vorweg: hier muss Read more…
Proxmox is for running VMs. It offers support for Linux Containers, but there is no build in support for Docker containers. This does not mean that you cannot run Docker on Proxmox. You won’t get native integration into Proxmox, which means that you need to use a different software to Read more…
Assume that you use SAP WebIDE for developing an application and that you have to consume an OData service from an on-premise NetWeaver ABAP system. In SCP, the destination is configured, and SAP Cloud Connector is working. For principal propagation, X.509 is used. Problem When you select the OData service Read more…
SSO logon with an X.509 certificate offers some benefits. In this blog, I’ll cover the main benefits, problems and attention areas when using X.509 for SSO. As a practical example the X.509 logon with NetWeaver ABAP is shown. To access an ICM service on a NetWeaver ABAP system (NW ABAP), Read more…
Die Corona Warn App (CWA) ist seit einiger Zeit verfügbar. Die Benutzung ist freiwillig, wer will und kann darf die App verwenden. Da die Entwicklung öffentlich in GitHub erfolgte kann der Quellcode eingesehen werden. So weit wie SAP und die Telekom das ermöglicht haben. Die ersten Entwicklungen erfolgten erst intern Read more…
I’ll show how to obtain a valid letsencrypt certificate for Apache on AWS EC2 Linux AMI and Namecheap as DNS provider. Running a private web server on AWS EC2 is easy. Managing it is not so easy. Having a valid TLS web server certificate from letsencrypt is one of the Read more…