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18 Techniques for Locating the Underlying Data of a Screen Field
SAP’s three-tiered architecture is the backbone of an R/3 infrastructure. It’s what makes an R/3 system flexible, reliable, and open, all at the same time. It’s also what makes locating underlying data, at times, so inherently difficult. For example, when you need several fields from a transaction for a report or an enhancement, you will...…
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Enabling Point-and-Click Data Entry Assistance for Your BAPI Applications
Within SAPGUI, facilities that help users enter data are known as Input Help. In simple cases, SAPGUI’s Input Help presents the user with a list of codes and descriptions. For more complex object types, Match Codes are used to enable the user to search on more expansive sets of criteria. You can provide a similar...…
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Is It Time to Revisit Your SAP Security Infrastructure?
All too often SAP implementation projects don’t take security beyond the application level, where security and authorization are often regarded as one and the same. To ensure adequate protection, security measures must be factored into all layers of the SAP infrastructure. With their client/server architecture, SAP systems include many components that exchange information, each of...…
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Optimizing, Monitoring, and Fine-Tuning a Newly Upgraded Release 4.x Spool Service
For Release 3.x spool servers, all output requests and related management activities are anchored by a single spool work process. Needless to say, processing bottlenecks can be a common occurrence, forcing administrators to add additional R/3 servers just to get more spool work processes. Release 4.x spool servers, which can support multiple spool work processes,...…
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Selecting the Optimal System Landscape for Your SAP R/3 Upgrade Project
An R/3 upgrade requires that changes be made to the new system, and it requires support for ongoing changes to the production system as well, so the underlying system landscape must make it easy to manage change. Most upgrade projects use a variation on one of two landscape strategies: rehearsal of the upgrade process on...…
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Transaction Handling in SAP R3 What Every Programmer Needs to Know
Understanding how R/3 is able to handle even very large numbers of transactions with ease is essential for any ABAP or BAPI developer who wants to build performance-optimized applications, and for administrators who are charged with maintaining overall system performance. This article explains the details of transaction processing and the asynchronous update scheme around which...…
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BAPI Programming with Java — Beyond the Basics
SAP’s Common RFC Interface for Java has made it easier for customers to adopt the “outside-in” approach, whereby Java programs running on non-SAP systems can make BAPI calls into an R/3 system to leverage R/3 functionality. Working with Java middleware for SAP R/3 is a somewhat complex affair. This article outlines some of the nasty...…
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Better Management of Change Requests with Extended Transport Control
Every implementation and development team instinctively knows that the transporting of change requests is vital to the success of an R/3 implementation. Recognizing that this process can become overwhelming, SAP introduced extended transport control with Release 4.5, so once you define client-specific transport routes, you don’t have to worry about managing into which clients a...…
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Building Your Own BAPIs — A Step-by-Step Guide
If you have some experience with crafting applications that utilize BAPIs and want to know how to actually create and implement a BAPI in the event that an appropriate BAPI does not exist, this article is for you. Once you have searched through the BOR and identified the suitable object types for your application, and...…
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A Custom Performance Test — Is It for You?
A load test makes sense — in fact, it’s an absolute must — for large, complex, or highly customized systems with add-ons. In these situations, a load test, whereby you physically test a heavily loaded system before it is deployed, is the only way to verify that the hardware sizing, configuration, and parameterization of your...…
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