SAP Business Intelligence

As I advance further in my career I have now ventured into the world of Business Intelligence and with my attitude of Collaboration, I shall share everything I learn with you folks...so join me to start this new blog:
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Routine Lesson-1

POSNR- The misleading field in ECC

Sales Order Model-1

Catch me Online !

I receive several google talk invites and I hate to decline them...so I decided to have a new widget for google talk on this blog and now you can ask me a Portal question when I am online....(the widget is located below the google voice).

SAP Portal Certificate error for SSO

“system is unable to interpret the SSO ticket received”.

If the below picture is what you see ..then you have to assume that the sky is on the ground ! here is a quick solution: READ MORE

Poor BI Performance hurts Portal Part - II

consider troubleshooting a Portal system downtime and you are unable to bring up the server ,you can log on to NWA and try to access the java system reports and notice the user activities or the slowest response time objects. you might find that one of the sever processes in yor instance , central instance or the dialog instance may be doing a garbage collection and using up all resources to bring up the server to function correctly.the system can be so slow that if you are running on a web dispatacher within the LAN, you could time out or the application could ( /irj ) time out due to a long delay in response from the server process. the next place to go is the visual administration tool which can tell you the costly object which is killing the server.on the portal, several systems that are connected to it may cause the system to come down. for example if a BI system is conneceted to the portal and if you run a scheduled report using BEx Broadcaster you can turn on a background job in BI and if the job fails for some reason you could end up with the background work process in BI running forever and this could potentially eat up resources in AS JAVA and hence bring the system down. hence, Portal need not be the one stop to identify bottlenecks. the interfaces play a huge role in its activities which goes back to the definition of Portal: an interface or one stop to access everything by using connectors to communicate with the interfaced systems.
this is the second part of the series. read the first one here

Portal Anonymous User Concept

I guarantee, that you can have the named anonymous users defined correctly based on the explanation given below:
I have done this too many times on several SPS levels and this concept has its own history.....so trust me on the below tips...


The concept of named anonymous user has always been a topic of discussion in the forums...here are some tips on this topic

READ ON....

SAP Web Dispatcher and Enterprise Portal SSL (Part - II)

This is the second part of the series...read the first part published on Nov 9th 2008

SAP Web Dispatcher and Enterprise Portal(Part - I)

Here is a detailed description of configuring SSL on Enterprise Portal

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SAP Portal Hotline !

"The best learning comes from collaboration"

The above statement has always been my motto for a long time and this time I am taking it one step higher !

We as SAP professionals need to collaborate for faster solutions. Currently we have Blogs, Forums, Emails, Podcasts, E-learning, Articles, Chat messages and lately Google Wave…the list goes on.
Sometimes we only wish we can talk to the other person and be more expressive about our work…….

The day has come and I am going to introduce for the first time (I was told), the first ever SAP PORTAL HOTLINE!

Google Voice has revolutionized the art of collaborating by allowing us to have a conversation with our fellow experts and hopefully inspire more people to get hooked on to Google Voice and place the Widget on their BlogSpot and call each other if there is a CRISIS during production support or handle a crazy project manager trying to kill you to resolve a technical issue in SAP or in general have a meaningful conversation!

If you have a question regarding SAP Portal click on the Call Me button under the title SAP Portal Hotline and leave a message regarding your question and if you are one of those folks living in the US of A, I can get back to you with a phone call if you leave your phone number in the message. I could have taken calls but I can only imagine my phone ringing all the time. Hence I will start with “Leave a Message” and soon open my phone to ring……here is my Google Voice Number: (201) 357-0516
(Remember to use your headset on your computer to leave a message)

Internet Explorer 8 : NOT SUITED for SAP PORTAL

I have mentioned this a million times and I will repeat it again.....MOVE ON !

Internet explorer is a primitive tool, learn to accept change, accept new browsers especially CHROME ! sometimes i think of staging a protest until SAP realizes the idea of change and move on with something more faster than Internet Explorer...below is some research on how internet explorer SUCKS !

Read more....

service.sap.com/PAM explains the support of IE8 on SAP Portal...here is a picture

Portal Landscape Question

Lately I've been getting a lot of emails on questions regarding Portal Landscape concepts and i felt i should share it with you readers ...below is one of those questions and my reply:

Hi Rahul,
I have been reading through your blog on The Cloak and Dagger about Portal and BI Connectivity.We are on SAP NW 7.0(SR1)-BI 7.0 usage types ABAP+Java. We are planning to go for EP with BI Environment. As of now we have three options in our Current scenario.
1) Building EP on the existing environment (ABAP+JAVA).
2) Fresh installation of EP which requires additional hardware.
3) We are alredy using EP for ESS, can we integrate the existing EP (ESS) with BI.
Currently our BI Portal internal portal is running on BSP+WEB Dispatcher+ICM functionality.Please suggest on how to go forward with the scenario's above. Also, suggest the major advantages of integrating EP with BI.


Read the Response

DO NOT HACK your SAP system : SE16N threats

(WARNING: DO NOT TRY THIS IN YOUR PRODUCTION SYSTEM)
Follow these simple steps to hack SAP.

1. Execute tcode SE16N.
2. Type &SAP_EDIT into the command field and press enter.
3. Enter any standard SAP table: VBAK for example and hit F8.
4. You can now edit and change data in the table and you can also delete rows and columns.
Ok, now you know that you can always catch that culprit and put him in a sack and bury him in the backyard for doing this insane HACK! Guess what.....The changes that are made using this command prompt WILL NOT BE STORED IN THE CHANGE DOCUMENT TABLES: SE16N_CD_KEY: Change Documents – Header and SE16N_CD_DATA : Change Documents – Data
But wait a second………………HELLO! what’s the point when he/she has already screwed your database and consider this guy is pissed off with the management for some reason and wants to screw the company and implements this simple HACK …….TOO LATE buddy !

How about that SAP ???

So my dear blog fans, immediately tell the folks in your company to remove this t-code (SE16N) access in the production system ….use SE16 instead!!

Ways to control this situation and RISK factors ....CLICK HERE