Max Titov IV @ TechSplice

SAP: Enterprise Portal related Business Packages

A list of packages can be found and downloaded by following below reference links:

1. Go to service.sap.com
2. Select SAP Support Portal
3. Select Software Downloads
4. Select Support Packages and Patches
5. Select Browse our Download Catalog
6. Select SAP Application Components
7. Select SAP ERP
8. Select SAP ERP 6.0
9. Select Entry by Component
10. Select Portal Content

At this point you would be able to see a collection of available business packages.  Select the required package and download the archive.

Current available list of packages includes:

SAP: sure way to configure saplogon.ini

There are lots of post on locations where SAP Pad picks up the saplogon.ini file.  Without resorting to those and relying on guess work follow below instructions to identify where the SAP Logon Pad picks up your system information.

1. Open SAP Logon Pad
2. Do one of the following to bring up an option menue
• Press Alt
• Click on the icon in the top-left corner
3. Select Options
4. In the Configuration Files grid find the saplogon.ini file reference – the specified directory is the location from where the file is loaded.
5. Update the file in designated directory

SAP: IDES ECC6 [EHP5] – disable devaccess check

The proper solution is to register for a Developer access key from SAP, but in cases when you can’t do that there’s always a work-around.

I’ve set up a personal IDES system on my home computer and ran in to this problem.  Debugging the code I’ve identified that the function that performs the checks is DEVELOPER_KEY_CHECK.

The FM is very small, looks like this:

  CALL ’CHECK_DEVELOPER_KEY’ ID ’KEY’    FIELD DEVELOPKEY.
CASE SY-SUBRC.
WHEN 1.
RAISE PARAMETERS_WRONG.
WHEN 2.
RAISE WRONG_KEY.
ENDCASE.

The hack/crack is to change the code to overwrite the OS command that returns 1 or 2.

Modification of the source SAP code is also tricky, you need to log in using user SAP, go to the FM DEVELOPER_KEY_CHECK – click change, using the debugger make sure the change can be allowed [update the sy-subrc to 0 when applicable] and add something like COMMIT WORK statement after the OS call which will overwrite the SY-SUBRC value to 0.

SAP: ALV grid Field Catalog [ref_table] SAPLSKBH & [source code of program " "] error

I’ve came across a strange error that occurred while building an SAP ALV grid.  After calling the create_dynamic_table method of the CL_ALV_TABLE_CREATE object the program throws a hard error complaining about a blank program call in SAPLSKBH .

After spending some time debugging I’ve identified that based on custom reference table parameters the  source 4.6C SAP code attempts to generate a dynamic program using a GENERATE REPORT prog call.  When the attempt fails instead of returning a corresponding error message the algorithm throws an error about a blank program pointer that failed to be created.

Here’s the problematic code – while debugging examining the l_message parameter will identify the true cause of the failure.

  catch system-exceptions generate_subpool_dir_full = 9.
    generate subroutine pool lt_source name l_name
             message l_message line l_line word l_word.
  endcatch.
  case sy-subrc.
    when 0.
    when 9.
      raise generate_subpool_dir_full.
    when others.
      message x000(0k) with l_message l_line l_word.
  endcase.

SAP: EDI: Conversion of External Tax Rate

T076M is a standard SAP table available within R/3 SAP systems depending on your version and release level. Below is the standard documentation available for this table and a few details of the fields which make up this table.

Transaction: OBCD can be used to maintain the contents.