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The following articles are written by SAP experts, contributors from the SAPinsider Community, and SAPinsider’s skilled team of editors and research analysts. From technical guides to thought leadership pieces, these articles contain essential insights to help SAP customers solve day-to-day challenges, understand what types of decisions organizations need to be making, and receive lessons learned from other SAP customer experiences.

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A Developer’s Guide to Creating Powerful and Flexible Web Applications with the New Web Application Builder Jan 15, 2002 — AG Release 6.10 introduces the SAP Web Application Server (Web AS), the successor to the SAP Basis system. The Web AS includes native support for Internet protocols such as HTTP, and a brand-new development model called Business Server Pages (BSPs) for building web applications that can dynamically access SAP data. This article guides you step […]

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A Homogeneous System Copy in 60 Minutes? It Can Be Done!Jan 15, 2002 — A system copy is a very handy thing to have around. You can use it to support upgrades, set up a training system, or refresh your quality assurance system on a regular basis, for example. But making a system copy is a difficult and time-consuming endeavor, and the bigger the database, the more difficult and […]

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Looking Forward to the Unicode Advantage: Internationalization and Integration Jan 15, 2002 — Unicode is an international character-encoding scheme that is used by modern standards such as HTML and XML, and in programming languages such as Java and ABAP 6.10, to enable global, multilingual Internet data communication and systems integration. This article will help managers, administrators, and developers assess whether the newer SAP Unicode systems fit their specific […]

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Speed Up High-Throughput Business Transactions with Parallel Processing – No Programming Required!Jan 15, 2002 — Parallel processing is a built-in option available with many SAP programs that helps improve the throughput and processing time of business transactions that must process large amounts of data in a tight time frame. This article shows you how to determine whether parallel processing is the right course of action, how the workload is split […]

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Write Smarter ABAP Programs with Less Effort: Manage Persistent Objects and Transactions with Object Services Jan 15, 2002 — In the past, the gap between the object and relational worlds has seriously hampered the use of ABAP Objects in application development. Instead of focusing on your application, you spent a considerable amount of time and effort designing and implementing a persistence framework to close this gap. Release 6.10 introduces Object Services, a framework for […]

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Build Flexibility and Control into Your ABAP Programs with Dynamic Programming Techniques Nov 15, 2001 — Unlike languages that are intended primarily for building software tools, the ABAP programming language is driven by the needs of business application development. Consequently, ABAP offers some unique features, such as dynamic programming. Dynamic programming enables you to use data features and operations at runtime that cannot be determined at compile time, making your ABAP […]

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File I/O with ABAP – Problems, Workarounds, and Prudent Practices Nov 15, 2001 — Working with files in ABAP is one of the rare instances where an ABAP programmer comes into contact with the world outside of an SAP system. He leaves a perfect world where everything fits neatly together and is confronted with the harsh reality of different operating and file systems. As experience often shows, there are […]

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SAP Controls Programming Essentials – What Every ABAP Developer Now Needs to Know Nov 15, 2001 — Controls technology provides an efficient way to build interactive and user-friendly interfaces. Trees, pictures, and editors are all part of the SAP GUI, waiting to be leveraged in your next application. So what do you need to know to take advantage of controls programming, and what’s the best way to get started? This article offers […]

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Currencies and Currency Conversions in BAPI Programming Sep 15, 2001 — Almost all BAPI-based applications have to deal with currencies. Proper handling of the currency fields in a BAPI requires an in-depth understanding of how currency amounts are represented in SAP. This article discusses how BAPIs should treat currency amounts, how to handle BAPIs that violate the rules and return “incorrect” amounts, how to use the […]

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Globalizing Applications Part 1: Pre-Unicode Solutions Sep 15, 2001 — As Internet access spreads, costs decrease, and the online population extends to all corners of the globe, additional demands will be placed on developers, who have to consider language issues when they write programs, on system administrators, who have to maintain larger, global networks, and also on managers, who have to stay on top of […]

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