NWDS stands for SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio. It is an extended version of the famous Eclipse aimed to help developing applications to run on SAP NetWeaver platform under Java stack. Anyway, it assumes that you installed and ran the NWDS on your personal computer. In other words, you should be the Administrator or is in Administrators group. As a result, you may not be able to run NWDS if you are not in either case.

OCI8 is an extension for providing APIs to Oracle database management system. However, installing OCI8 is not just easy like apt-get since it requires SDK offered by Oracle and its distribution license prohibits the inclusion to linux distribution. That means we have to download and compile it by ourselves. Fortunately, it is a little bit easy for Ubuntu.

In SAP 4.6c, when we want to retrieve status of production order by ABAP, we can apply function 'STATUS_READ'. This function require only object no. of production order.

In SAP R/3 4.6c, if we want to change user status in production order by ABAP, we can apply function 'I_CHANGE_STATUS'. This function requires object number, current active status and status that we want to set as active.

Ubuntu is one of the most popular in recent years. I like Ubuntu over other distributions because of its near-constant release date, says 6 months. However, 6 months seem to be too short for enterprise applications. They don't want to upgrade OS every 6 months or so. That is a reason why Dapper Drake must be long term support. However, there is another important reason between Dapper, Edgy and later release including the latest Feisty.

The STAT transaction is transaction for analyze the statistics by users or programs. These data is kept in the server as file. If we want to retreive these data, we should apply function 'SAPWL_STATREC_READ_FILE'. this function will return the raw data. you can take these data to analyze or verify depend on your requirement.

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