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Below the detail briefing of each step in SUM process for ABAP system. 1 Extraction Phase name Brief details CHECK4NOTES_TOOL phase: SUM asks to implement some necessary SAP Notes CHECKPROF_INI phase: SUM checks the system profiles for problems CHECKSYSSTATUS phase: SUM reads the profiles and checks the state of the running instances CONFCHK_IMP phase: In […]

Here are the brief description of kernel executable files. Kenel Files  Description R3check The tool will check Cluster-Tables for errors R3ldctl The tool for exporting all table structures to the file system during an OS/DB-Migration. R3load The table import & export tool of SAP during Installation, Upgrade and Migration. R3szchk The tool for determine the […]

Below are the exit codes in JAVA and its possible reason. Also, for some of the return code you can refer to the snote mentioned with the exit code: #Common exit codes: 0    =Normal exit. 11  =Cannot initialize xml parser (Service Manager) or error reading properties (likeyinst tool). 666=Out of memory. #Engine exitcodes: 1   = […]

Below is few basic terminology that used in SAP. Client: Clients are additional installable programs or tools. They reside either on local front-end PCs accessed by users or on back-end systems where they act as client programs within an SAP NetWeaver system landscape. Functional Unit: A configured and activated unit of SAP NetWeaver that provides […]

An environment variable is a variable whose value is set outside the program, typically through functionality built into the operating system or microservice. An environment variable is made up of a name/value pair, and any number may be created and available for reference at a point in time. The environment variable helps in pointing out […]

 SAP Memory Concepts Roll Memory –>The roll area holds the user environment information needed by work processes when executing dialog steps. Extended Memory –> Specifies how much of the SAP extended memory was requested by this user. Heap memory–> Private memory (heap memory) requested by the user. Swap Memory –> SAP swap area is only used for a limited number of ABAP commands.   […]

Below is the list of few Unix/Linux command that are helpful for SAP Basis Purpose. Command Details dpmon or dpmon pf= <Instance profile path> ABAP Dispatcher queue monitor jsmon pf=<instance profile path> Java Server monitoring ps -ef Running work process ps –eaf|grep dw sap Process overview ps –eaf|grep ora To check oracle service is running kill -9 <PID> Kill work process […]

Sometimes it happens when few user process/program/transactions utilized maximum all SM12 lock entry, which may lead temporary bottle neck in system. Also, its lead to ABAP dump of LOCK_TABLE_OVERFLOW in many situations. Note: ** The size of the lock table limits the maximum number of lock entries, the maximum number of elementary lock names, and […]

Critical tasks: Check that the R/3System is up –> Log onto the R/3 System Check that daily backup executed without errors –> DB12 Check database backup from DB02 or another backup tool. Log backup –> Log backup is completing successfully and adequate log area is there. Network Issue –> verify there is any network issue […]

Error: In ST22, we can notice that  ABAP dump TSV_TNEW_PAGE_ALLOC_FAILED in 000 client is coming for standard program  SAPLSTUW , like below. Reason/Solution: On Solution end as per  SAP Note  “2597255 – CDMC Statistic collection job failing due to dump in function module SWNC_GET_WORKLOAD_STATISTIC” which suggest this program error and can be corrected by applying this note or […]

Few suggestion/checks regarding this slow running SAPCONNECT email job (program RSCONN01) in SAP ABAP system. Usually this email jobs finishes in few second/min, but rarely we noticed its taking 1000+ second to complete the job and many 1000+ entries waits to process in SOST, also there is no error log in SM37, SOST tcode, related […]

We usually find in EWA report or in other SAP reports that high response time or performance issue shown related to tcode/report COOIS / COOISPI / PPIO_ENTRY. Also in some cases the short dumps TIME_OUT, MEMORY_NO_MORE_PAGING or TSV_TNEW_PAGE_ALLOC_FAILED may also be observed. To check or troubleshoot more on this, below few points need to check. […]

The database side the table TST03 can appear to be very large and to confirm this the size of the table needs to be compared with the actual data stored in the TemSe. This is only for Oracle database system. Below the step to check the size difference To compare: The size of the table […]

Email configuration in BO system Please follow below steps to perform the changes: 1–> Login in to CMC portal of the BO system through your credential 2–> Click on server (marked in yellow) 3–> click on server list 4–> Select Server Adaptive server Job server, after that right click and select Destination option (marked in […]

Below is the steps to open Download manager in Linux Prerequisite: Make sure you have Java installed on your server and Internet is enabled to download software from SMP 1) First you need vncserver installed on server and vncviewer installed on jump server/workstation Login with root access and execute vncserver command It will create a […]

Issue: Table history is not visible in DB02 tcode, see below. Reason: This statistic data is gathered from below data collector, if they inactive then it stop collecting data and will not show their relevant data in DB02. Here Database is Oracle. In this scenario, total 72 connector is there and in which the inactive […]

Steps to done the ADS configuration on ABAP system and AS JAVA system. The ADS component will already be there in the system we only need to make the configuration settings. Please check SAP note 2029940 (Required Additional RPM packages for ADS on Linux) and make sure all the rpm’s are installed if you are […]

Error/Warning: In  SM21- below log is coming on regular basis related to “Audit event recording was stopped (reason = MAXSIZE)” If we check SM21 log, above log is coming on regular basis in our SAP system, like above screenshot. Reason/Solution: On further checking , the max size of the audit file is filled, that’s why […]

SAP Router Installation on windows: Pre-checks: Check with Network/Firewall team 3299 port is open for both outgoing and incoming from server where we going to install saprouter. Raise a Public IP request for SAP router server. Once you get the public IP we have raised below OSS message in XX-SER-NET-NEW  component to register public IP […]

In SAP there are various types of upgrades. SP upgrade EHP upgrade NetWeaver version upgrade Before performing any upgrade, there are pre-requisites you should perform and need to co-ordinate with respective teams Requirement gathering: All team Stack xml generation and patch download: Basis Team Database backup and checks : DB Team Perform upgrade activity: Basis […]