SAP R/3

How to let normal user run NWDS

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.

How to get status by ABAP

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.

How to change user status by ABAP

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.

Why Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper Drake must be long term support?

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.

How to apply BAPI_GOODSMVT_CREATE by PHP

If we want to create material document in SAP R/3 from external system, we can apply BAPI function BAPI_GOODSMVT_CREATE for this action. After we already call this function, we shoud call function BAPI_TRANSACTION_COMMIT or BAPI_TRANSACTION_ROLLBACK to commit or rollback our processes. In the example , i will create issue material doc by apply this function using PHP.

How to install JDBC drivers and SAP JCo on Apache Tomcat properly

Developing web applications on Apache Tomcat is very easy including ones interact with DBMS or even SAP. The key component is JDBC driver and SAP JCo. However, common problem is about deploying the application. If you installed JDBC driver or SAP JCo improperly on Apache Tomcat, you may run it as long as you don't redeploy the application again. Whenever you redeploy the application or deploy another application using the same driver, all applications will crash immediately because the driver was not loaded properly (it was already loaded).