Recently I saw a situation where object was not able to be included into the transport. System was indicating that the objects is locked via pop-up message (TK117): Object XXX locked for request/task <SID>Kxxxxxx Choose ‘Display object’ or ‘Cancel’.However, the object was not locked by any transport neither task. The transport that the error mentioned was released and moved across the

In 2023, ABAP – SAP’s proprietary programming language celebrated 40 years anniversary.  Nowadays there it is its latest evolution – ABAP Cloud. But what exactly it is? The ABAP Cloud is the latest evolution of the ABAP programming language. It is modernized version of traditional language designed for cloud-native development in SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) and as well as for

In one of my earlier posts, I described ABAP program called RSPROCESS. However, there is also a program RSBATCH_EXECUTE_PROZESS. Both are serving similar purpose in SAP BW systems. They are used to managing certain BW processes. As described in that other blog post the RSPROCESS executes process variant of process chain. For various types of process variant of the PC see this post or refer to

ABAP Task Manager (aka Task Manager for Technical Configuration) is part of the ABAP stack that serves for purposes of execution of an automation task lists for various configuration tasks in automated way. It is available in SAP ABAP Platform/ABAP NetWeaver Stack backend via t-codes STC01 (ABAP task manager for lifecycle management automation), STC02 (Task list run monitor). As an example of

Change Data Capture (CDC) allows identifying and capturing changes made to data within SAP application tables with the SAP system. Those data changes can be then in real-time replicated to other systems or processes. It's a way to keep data synchronized across different environments, enabling real-time analytics, data warehousing, and other data-driven initiatives. There are different techniques

In a nutshell with an update of the Note 3255746 SAP stops customers and 3rd party applications from using RFC modules in the ODP Data Replication API to access and extract SAP data from ABAP sources. As these APIs are only for SAP’s internal use. This is an SAP's ban of RFC usage. This means it is not possible to use ODP to access ABAP CDS views directly. Instead, the ODP component with OData

When SAP Analysis for Microsoft Office (AfO) is being reinstalled or upgraded there can be several errors popping up causing not possible to reuse/refresh the existing reports. Basically, the AfO is crashing or freezing with errors like following.   "An exception occurred in one of the data sources. SAP BI Add-in has disconnected all data sources. (ID-111007)" "Nested exception. See inner

There is an option to run the process chain in different time zone available in BW systems. It is available in start variant of the PC. There is a new checkbox “Use Alternative Time Zone”. Once it is checked a new field shows up. The feature can be useful in case BW admin is not aware of what time zone the BW system runs in. So, the alternative time zone can be used.Once there is an alternative