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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Groups are collections of users who share the same account privileges. Therefore, you may create groups that are based on department, role, or location. Groups enable you to change the rights for users in one place (a group) instead of modifying the rights for each user account individually. Also, you can assign object rights to […]

Error Handling in RFC Server Programs. This article will help is describing the common Netweaver RFC SDK return codes and error groups and their overview with solutions. Return Code: 1) RFC_OK –> A function call was processed successfully. 2) RFC_COMMUNICATION_FAILURE –>The connection broke down while processing the function call. No response has been sent to […]

This section only lists few sapcontrol commands . You can find a detailed list of all SAPControl options and features in the command line help, which you can call as follows: UNIX: /usr/sap/hostctrl/exe/sapcontrol –help Windows: %ProgramFiles%\SAP\hostctrl\exe\sapcontrol.exe –help Below is the few sapcontrol command, 00 is represent <instance number> as an example in below, you can […]

Possible SM51 status shown in ABAP system: In sm51 screen what are the possibilities for status field? If the status is active, then we can double click on the instance name to go to its work process over view screen(sm50). but if the application server is down, will it still be displayed in the sm51 […]

Meaning of the return codes  while importing TR through STMS : 0: Transport successful. 4: Warnings occurred. All the objects were transported successfully. Peculiarities occurred for certain objects. These might not have been intentional. Example: A warning is given during a transport if the request contains an object deletion. 6: Post-processing required The transport request […]