With great sadness I had to read that the SAP ABAP Platform, Developer Edition on Docker is dead. SAP removed the version from Docker Hub already in January, and since then, news about it were never promising. And on 13. October 2022, SAP let the ABAP Developer Edition officially die. Read more…
Welcome to the 2000s! Let’s learn something about the latest in enterprise architecture: SOAP! See how easy it is to consume data from a non-SAP system in NetWeaver ABAP. This will bring the internet to SAP and positions your system as a player in the new internet market. Supporting SOAP Read more…
Developing Fiori apps isn’t as easy as it once was. When Fiori was announced, it was a new and simple approach to design enterprise apps. Was, because the approach met reality. Reality regarding customer requirements as well as SAP specific requirements. With a customer base reaching from small to very, 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…
SAP provides a nice trace tool for troubleshooting login errors with SAML 2.0: Sec Diag Tool. It is a WebDynpro ABAP application. Make sure to activate the necessary ICF services first before running the tool. URL: /sap/bc/webdynpro/sap/sec_diag_tool/ In NPL: https://vhcalnplci:44300/sap/bc/webdynpro/sap/sec_diag_tool/ With the tool you can start a SAML2 trace. When Read more…
In the SAML 2.0 SSO logon with automatic user creation scenario, the user is created in the SAP system by a BADI. The user information send by the SAML 2.0 IdP is contained in the SAML response. In my previous blog I have shown how the user profile is configured 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…
I run an SAP NetWeaver ABAP Dev Edition system in a Virtual Box VM. Unfortunately, the update process for this software is to delete and reinstall after the DB license expires. Installing a new NW ABAP version is not overly complex: the SAP provided installer is easy to use and Read more…
This blog is about how to create an oData service from a CDS View. The code and example follow closely SAP Help documentation and the included example on this topic: Develop CDS View Expose as OData service I only cut the documentation overhead and make the information available in a Read more…