During an upgrade or the import of a Support Package, existing objects of the SAP standard are overwritten with the objects redelivered. To help it to retain the changes to SAP objects done in a previous release, SAP provides transactions SPAU and SPDD. These transactions allow to enter their modifications into the corresponding new objects […]
Concept of SPAU and SPDD in SAP System
Customer/Custom defined objects are developed in customer namespace and are thus not affected or overwritten by upgrades. In the case of SAP objects, as part of an upgrade or Support Package import, SAP may provide new versions of existing SAP objects. If customer have modified SAP objects in a previous release, so it’s necessary to […]
SUM UI hangs with message “Process execution in progress”
During the upgrade of a SAP NetWeaver system, the SUM UI hangs with the message “Process execution in progress” and SUM logs are not updated: The SAP Host Agent sapstartsrv.log file shows the following error: [Thr 140008373823232] *** ERROR => Permission denied: user <SID>adm has no permission for operation 020752A5173A1EDA9EE2A825F74ECFF1 [OperationPlu 326] [Thr 140008373823232] *** […]
HDBLCM Web-UI suddenly freezes
When we use HDBLCM (SAP HANA Platform Lifecycle Management) Web-UI suddenly freezes when clicking “Update System and Components” Solutions: check the file /usr/sap/hostctrl/work/sapstartsrv.log and in that we geeting such below Wrning/Error Messages. [Thr 140632085706496] *** WARNING => Invalid file ‘runnings.commands/8CDC7192A4B21EDL08943072739590N1_0_22683_9’ [PersistentOp 343] [Thr 140632085706496] *** ERROR => Permission denied: user xyzadm has no permission to […]
Import using the SPAM/SAINT throws error “Currently runs an update process started by the SUM”
Sometime we face below error while running an import from SAPM/SAINT Issue: When attempting an import using the SPAM/SAINT an error occurs or While defining the import queue an error message is displayed and from this point SPAM/SAINT import cannot be continued. “Currently runs an update process started by the Software Update manager (SUM)” and […]
HANA DB License Management
License management in HANA License keys are required to use SAP HANA databases. You can install, and delete license keys using the SAP HANA studio, HANA cockpit, the SAP HANA HDBSQL command line tool, and SQL. License keys are required to use SAP HANA. SAP HANA supports two kinds of license key: temporary license keys […]
SMLG: ABAP and RFC Logon group concept and how it work.
A Logon Group is a group of servers that belongs to one SAP system. It is maintained in transaction SMLG. Logon groups are used to automatically distribute user logons to individual instances or to groups of SAP instances (Applications Server). Group “SPACE” is maintained automatically with all active servers. It is possible to manually overwritten […]
Logon Load balancing checkpoint in SAP system
Point to check Logon Load balancing is configured correctly in SAP ABAP system. 1) Check/verify count distribution through AL08 or AL08_OLD. We can start transaction AL08_OLD or AL08 to get an overview of the distribution of your logged on users and how they are spread over the application servers, it will show data like no […]
User and password are repeatedly asked when starting SUM
When we use the latest SL Common UI by entering the http or https URL in browser, we are asked to input the OS user and password to start the SUM. This user should be <sid>adm by default. But even if we enter the correct user and password of <sid>adm, the browser still pops up […]
SUM is restarted after a stop and shows Start option
The Software Update Manager (SUM) is restarted after a stop, and the SUM screen with “Start options” is displayed. Explanation of this behavior: –> By default, the SL Common UI starts the Software Update Manager without any special parameters, and you can skip the field Start Options. If you want to start the Software Update […]
SUM options to change entered parameters during upgrade
In Upgrades or Support Packages updates using the Software Update Manager (SUM) tool, several system parameters are defined during PREPARE. Quite often there is a need to change one or more parameters, due to errors, poor performance or miss configured options. Most common errors derived from incorrect parameters are: *Wrong SAP SYSTEM HOST *DDIC/DB password […]
Checklist for Performance problem in SAP Oracle Database
Below is the standard recommended checklist from SAP related to Oracle database performance for SAP application. It mentioned through below point wise with related SAP Note in details. 1) Install latest Bundle Patch. The most recent Bundle Patch of SBP and an actual Bundle Patch of GI,EXA,ODA is always located on Marketplace or listed in […]
Parallelism in the Upgrades and Support Packages
This article helps to understand the parallelism import mechanisms and its working in SUM and SPAM tools respectively. Here, “parallelism” means: 1) the import of more than one package or more than one object of a package at the same time by the transport tools (tp and R3trans); 2) the execution of more than one […]
How to change the location of Data Services log files/folder/directory
Below article describe how to change the location of Log folder / directory and logging file for Data services. Data Services logs are created in the %DS_COMMON_DIR%\log folder on Windows or $LINK_DIR/log directory on Unix/Linux (LINK_DIR being the name of the environment variable pointing to the DS install folder/directory). Below are detail steps: 1.Stop the […]
How to change log location in Data Services
Sometime we need to change the job log location because of the disk drive containing the log directory has run out of space or other organizational reasons.For this we must change the logging directory for every jobserver. But to remember as best practice is to create the logs on the same drive where the application […]
List of HTTP status code in SAP
During our day to day activities we see many HTTP status code, so below is the List of common HTTP status code we see in SAP. HTTP Response Status Codes Every HTTP request that is received by a server is responded to with a 3-digit HTTP status code. They are grouped into five classes. The […]
No delivery to RECIPIENT due to problems with system Resources
In SAP system, we can see some email gets failed with message with system resources in SOST tcode. Below is in detail about error and solution of that Error message: Some emails cannot be sent from the system In SOST these emails have error status ‘XS838 – No delivery to RECIPIENT due to problems with […]
Starting or stopping the Job servers in DataServices
The SAP Data Services service (AL_JobService) is a daemon associated with $LINK_DIR that starts locally configured Job Servers and Access Servers and then monitors them and attempts to restart them if they are not running. Below is the sequence to start/stop Job Services on Linux/Unix servers. 1. Run the Server Manager. $ ./svrcfg *Note The […]
Data Services CMC application settings
Below is the list of few parameter setting that can be changed on the CMC for DataServices application. History Retention Period: Number of days to retain the job execution history. Default value: 30 ● If you enter 0, then the software does not retain job history. ● If you enter a negative number, then the […]
Setting the Job Server Log Retention Period in Data Services
The Job Server Log Retention Period provides an automatic way to delete the Job Server log files such as the server_event*.logs. You can view currently stored Job Server log files in the Data Services Management Console using the Administrator application. Below is the way to check the retention value in DataServices. 1. Log in the […]