Hi Experts,

We have a load balanced distributed environment (SAP BI 4.0 SP4 Patch 7 - Windows 2008 R2 x64) with a separate web tier (tomcat) and app tier boxes (2 wide). Users can access the BusinessObjects through the load balancer URL and get redirected to either one of the web tier app tier box stacks based on the LB policy. Earlier everything was running fine, but now all of a sudden all user sessions are abrubtly being terminated when they are trying to run any report with moderate complexity. Anytime they try to run a report which runs for more than 5 - 7 minutes, the session gets terminated even without reaching the timeout value - but they same report runs perfectly fine when scheduled. This means the Business Objects services are running perfectly fine but it is an issue with the web tier.

Also, even if they are just browsing through the Public folders their session gets kicked off. It happens randomly but on a regular basis in the last couple of days.

I have attached a pic of the error i see on the report panel and the corresponding messages on tomcat logs have been included below. We also get occasional http 500 errors.

I have tried the following with no success - we still keep getting these errors

- restarting tomcat
- recreating the catalina localhost directory
- redeploying BOE on tomcat

- tried increasing connection timeout to 25 seconds on tomcat server.xml

We have allocated sufficient heap on tomcat servers and dont see any memory exceptions

I thought it was issues with our IE proxy settings and have also eliminated that issue - anything that is running within our domain is exempted from the proxy rules - so we are good on that front

Any help or suggestions would greatly be appreciated - My next step is to run reports through the rich client and see if i get the errors but most of the developers use thin client for developing/running reports.

Caused by: ClientAbortException:  java.net.SocketException: Connection reset by peer: socket write error
at org.apache.catalina.connector.OutputBuffer.realWriteBytes(OutputBuffer.java:358)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.buf.ByteChunk.flushBuffer(ByteChunk.java:434)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.OutputBuffer.doFlush(OutputBuffer.java:309)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.OutputBuffer.close(OutputBuffer.java:273)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteOutputStream.close(CoyoteOutputStream.java:104)
at org.apache.cxf.transport.http.AbstractHTTPDestination$WrappedOutputStream.close(AbstractHTTPDestination.java:676)
at org.apache.cxf.transport.AbstractConduit.close(AbstractConduit.java:56)
at org.apache.cxf.transport.http.AbstractHTTPDestination$BackChannelConduit.close(AbstractHTTPDestination.java:619)
at org.apache.cxf.interceptor.MessageSenderInterceptor$MessageSenderEndingInterceptor.handleMessage(MessageSenderInterceptor.java:62)
... 48 more
Caused by: java.net.SocketException: Connection reset by peer: socket write error
at java.net.SocketOutputStream.socketWrite0(Native Method)
at java.net.SocketOutputStream.socketWrite(SocketOutputStream.java:92)
at java.net.SocketOutputStream.write(SocketOutputStream.java:136)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.InternalOutputBuffer.realWriteBytes(InternalOutputBuffer.java:741)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.buf.ByteChunk.flushBuffer(ByteChunk.java:434)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.buf.ByteChunk.append(ByteChunk.java:349)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.InternalOutputBuffer$OutputStreamOutputBuffer.doWrite(InternalOutputBuffer.java:765)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.filters.ChunkedOutputFilter.doWrite(ChunkedOutputFilter.java:126)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.InternalOutputBuffer.doWrite(InternalOutputBuffer.java:574)
at org.apache.coyote.Response.doWrite(Response.java:560)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.OutputBuffer.realWriteBytes(OutputBuffer.java:353)
... 56 more
com.businessobjects.sdk.core.server.CommunicationException$UnexpectedServerException: java.net.SocketException: Unexpected end of file from server
                at com.businessobjects.sdk.core.exception.ExceptionBuilder.make(ExceptionBuilde[/size]r.java:144)
                at com.businessobjects.sdk.core.exception.ExceptionBuilder.make(ExceptionBuilder.java:101)
                at com.businessobjects.sdk.core.server.internal.AbstractServer.processIt(AbstractServer.java:183)
                at com.businessobjects.sdk.core.server.internal.AbstractServer.process(AbstractServer.java:133)
                at com.businessobjects.sdk.core.server.internal.InstanceServer.process(InstanceServer.java:94)
                at com.sap.sl.sdk.services.util.ServerRequestProcessor.processServerRequest(ServerRequestProcessor.java:49)
                at com.sap.sl.sdk.dataprovider.service.DataProviderServiceImpl.processDataProviderCommand(DataProviderServiceImpl.java:441)
                at com.sap.sl.sdk.dataprovider.service.DataProviderServiceImpl.processDataProviderCommand(DataProviderServiceImpl.java:453)
                at com.sap.sl.sdk.dataprovider.service.DataProviderServiceImpl.run(DataProviderServiceImpl.java:213)
                at com.sap.sl.sdk.workspace.service.WorkspaceServiceImpl.run(WorkspaceServiceImpl.java:330)
                at com.sap.webi.ui.tasks.workflows.RunWorkspaceTask.doIt(RunWorkspaceTask.java:80)
                at com.sap.webi.ui.tasks.workflows.RunWorkspaceTask.doIt(RunWorkspaceTask.java:16)
                at com.sap.webi.toolkit.ui.tasks.WebITask$PrivateWorker.doInBackground(WebITask.java:337)
                at javax.swing.SwingWorker$1.call(Unknown Source)
                at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(Unknown Source)
                at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source)
                at javax.swing.SwingWorker.run(Unknown Source)
                at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(Unknown Source)
                at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
                at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Caused by: javax.xml.ws.WebServiceException: java.net.SocketException: Unexpected end of file from server
                at com.sun.xml.internal.ws.transport.http.client.HttpClientTransport.readResponseCodeAndMessage(Unknown Source)
                at com.sun.xml.internal.ws.transport.http.client.HttpTransportPipe.process(Unknown Source)
                at com.sun.xml.internal.ws.transport.http.client.HttpTransportPipe.processRequest(Unknown Source)
                at com.sun.xml.internal.ws.transport.DeferredTransportPipe.processRequest(Unknown Source)
                at com.sun.xml.internal.ws.api.pipe.Fiber.__doRun(Unknown Source)
                at com.sun.xml.internal.ws.api.pipe.Fiber._doRun(Unknown Source)
                at com.sun.xml.internal.ws.api.pipe.Fiber.doRun(Unknown Source)
                at com.sun.xml.internal.ws.api.pipe.Fiber.runSync(Unknown Source)
                at com.sun.xml.internal.ws.client.Stub.process(Unknown Source)
                at com.sun.xml.internal.ws.client.sei.SEIStub.doProcess(Unknown Source)
                at com.sun.xml.internal.ws.client.sei.SyncMethodHandler.invoke(Unknown Source)
                at com.sun.xml.internal.ws.client.sei.SyncMethodHandler.invoke(Unknown Source)
                at com.sun.xml.internal.ws.client.sei.SEIStub.invoke(Unknown Source)
                at $Proxy41.processRequest(Unknown Source)
                at com.businessobjects.sdk.core.server.internal.http.HTTPServerImpl.doProcess(HTTPServerImpl.java:184)
                at com.businessobjects.sdk.core.server.internal.AbstractServer.processIt(AbstractServer.java:171)
                ... 17 more
Caused by: java.net.SocketException: Unexpected end of file from server
                at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.parseHTTPHeader(Unknown Source)
                at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.parseHTTP(Unknown Source)
                at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.parseHTTPHeader(Unknown Source)
                at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.parseHTTP(Unknown Source)
                at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(Unknown Source)
                at java.net.HttpURLConnection.getResponseCode(Unknown Source)
                ... 33 more

org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve invoke
SEVERE: Servlet.service() for servlet equinoxbridgeservlet threw exception
java.lang.RuntimeException: org.apache.jasper.JasperException: java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.businessobjects.http.servlet.internal.BundlePathAwareServiceHandler.serviceHelper(BundlePathAwareServiceHandler.java:254)
at com.businessobjects.http.servlet.internal.BundlePathAwareServiceHandler.service(BundlePathAwareServiceHandler.java:197)
at com.businessobjects.http.servlet.internal.ProxyServlet.service(ProxyServlet.java:248)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
at org.eclipse.equinox.servletbridge.BridgeServlet.service(BridgeServlet.java:220)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
at com.businessobjects.pinger.TimeoutManagerFilter.doFilter(TimeoutManagerFilter.java:166)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:233)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:191)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:298)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:852)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:588)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:489)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
Caused by: org.apache.jasper.JasperException: java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:421)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:313)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:260)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
at org.eclipse.equinox.jsp.jasper.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:121)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
at com.businessobjects.http.servlet.internal.ServletRegistration.service(ServletRegistration.java:110)
at com.businessobjects.http.servlet.internal.ServletLastFilterChainElement.service(ServletLastFilterChainElement.java:30)
at com.businessobjects.http.servlet.internal.filter.FilterChainImpl.doFilter(FilterChainImpl.java:46)
at com.businessobjects.webutil.boetrustguard.BOETrustPrepareFilter.doFilter(BOETrustPrepareFilter.java:32)
at com.businessobjects.http.servlet.internal.FilterRegistration.doFilter(FilterRegistration.java:72)
at com.businessobjects.http.servlet.internal.filter.FilterChainImpl.doFilter(FilterChainImpl.java:43)
at com.businessobjects.swd.shared.tracelog.TraceLogScopeFilter.doFilter(TraceLogScopeFilter.java:38)
at com.businessobjects.http.servlet.internal.FilterRegistration.doFilter(FilterRegistration.java:72)
at com.businessobjects.http.servlet.internal.filter.FilterChainImpl.doFilter(FilterChainImpl.java:43)
at com.businessobjects.sdk.actionfilter.WorkflowFilter.doFilter(WorkflowFilter.java:45)
at com.businessobjects.http.servlet.internal.FilterRegistration.doFilter(FilterRegistration.java:72)
at com.businessobjects.http.servlet.internal.filter.FilterChainImpl.doFilter(FilterChainImpl.java:43)
at com.businessobjects.swd.appcontext.RequestInitFilter.doFilter(RequestInitFilter.java:26)
at com.businessobjects.http.servlet.internal.FilterRegistration.doFilter(FilterRegistration.java:72)
at com.businessobjects.http.servlet.internal.filter.FilterChainImpl.doFilter(FilterChainImpl.java:43)
at com.businessobjects.http.servlet.internal.BundlePathAwareServiceHandler.serviceHelper(BundlePathAwareServiceHandler.java:235)
... 20 more
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.businessobjects.webutil.clientaction.query.ActionQueryHelper.getObjectViewerActions(ActionQueryHelper.java:87)
at org.apache.jsp.jsp.common.appletactions_jsp._jspService(appletactions_jsp.java:71)
at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:70)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:377)
... 41 more

Hi Gurus!!!

I need your help. In my enterprise has BO Groups, for example:

POS001   = 100 users

POS002   = 200 users

MER004   = 400 users

MER029   = 500 users

and I have many users assigned in their groups.

I need to download the relation Group-Assignement users.

Exists some option in the CMC for do this?

Thanks for your help!!!

This is a collection of the most useful SAP Jam resources: documents, blogs, reports, and videos. This includes links that will cover an introduction to SAP Jam, features and functionality, new releases, business cases, integration, and other related documents and resources. It is also recommended to join the SAP Social Software group on LinkedIn and follow SAP Social Software on Google Plus, as this is the leading community for the latest and greatest information on SAP Jam. You can also sign up for SAP Jam here: https://jam4.sapjam.com/

Overview

Enterprise Social Networking | Collaboration | Cloud | SAP (sap.com)

SAP Jam (SuccessFactors.com)

SAP Jam Content (SuccessFactors.com)

SAP Jam – SAP Help Portal Page (help.sap.com)

SuccessFactors with SAP ERP HCM. Business Processes and Use (SAP PRESS)

Introducing SAP Jam: Secure, social collaboration where you work

Making Enterprise Social Work, With SAP Jam

SAP Jam content in SAP Social Software space

How Does SAP Jam Relate to SAP StreamWork? (YouTube)

SAP Jam developer community

Welcome to your new SAP Jam developer edition

General, opinion, and thought-leadership

A Review of SAP Jam – dan pontefract (Dan Pontefract)

Transform - How Leading Companies are Winning with Social Technology (Prashanth Padmanabhan blog)

“Going Social:” Not so Much? (Bersin)

SAP Jam Can Enable Management Innovation In an Organization (Prashanth Padmanabhan blog)

Four Ways To Make Enterprise Social Work

How Social Networks Help Us Target Audiences For Training (Prashanth Padmanabhan blog)

SAP Jam Has 9.8 Million Subscribers (Prashanth Padmanabhan blog)

When Social Media at Work Don't Create Productivity-Killing Distractions (Business Week)

The Customer Go-to-Market Imperative - Transforming Silos to Social Business and Community Building

SAP Jam: The ROI Impacting Sales Productivity

SAPinsider: SAP Jam Hits the Sweet Spot Between Business Processes and Social Collaboration

The perfect match – Social Collaboration & CRM

SAP Social Collaboration Strategy Grinds Forward with SAP JAM

Is SAP Jam Where Enterprise Social Is Headed? (Enterprise Apps Today)

SAP Jam Adoption Models (Prashanth Padmanabhan blog)

5 keys to unlock success in enterprise social collaboration (Diginomica)

How to Design Your Enterprise Social Network for Maximum Impact (Part 1)

Video: The new SAP Jam developer program

The Path to SAP Jam ROI Success

Community Health Index for Collaboration Software (Prashanth Padmanabhan blog)

Reshape Processes Today to Design for Tomorrow: 3 Examples of How the SAP Jam Developer Program Enables Business Transformation (SAPInsider)

Seven Questions with Sameer Patel

SAP Jam Named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape for Enterprise Social Networks

SAP Fuels New Era of Social Collaboration to Transform Work (SAP News)

Content Governance Model For Product Managers Using SAP Jam (Prashanth Padmanabhan blog)

SAP named a leader in IDC MarketScape report on social technology in integrated talent management

Gamification: What can it bring to HR?

Quarterly Releases

1302: What’s new in SAP Jam: more ways to infuse social in your work

1305:

1308: The Innovation Continues:  Announcing the SAP Jam August (1308) Release

1311: What's new in SAP Jam: Work patterns, SharePoint integrations, customer requests, and usability

1402: What's new in SAP Jam: New work patterns, expert finding, and events

1405: SAP Jam: New capabilities for partners and developers, What's new in SAP Jam: Customizable work patterns and SAP ECC integration and The new SAP Jam overview page designer

1408: What’s new in SAP Jam: New work patterns, integrations, and engagement enhancements

1411: What's new in SAP Jam - New UI, CMIS integrations, Microsoft Lync presence and a lot more

1502: Introducing SAP Jam release 1502: a new high tech work pattern, usability, content management and more!

1505: SAP Jam release 1505 overview

Features and Functionality

SAP Jam Administrator Guide [PDF]

3 ways to create groups in SAP Jam more easily

How SAP Jam enables self-service communities

Introducing Work Patterns by SAP Jam

Private Folders Feature In SAP Jam Reduces Clutter and Increases Adoption (Prashanth Padmanabhan blog)

Social And Collaborative Learning powered by SAP Learning Solution and SAP Jam

Editing In SharePoint Vs Editing In SAP Jam (Prashanth Padmanabhan blog)

New in SAP Jam: Events and calendars

New in SAP Jam: Easier group management

From "Good" to "Incredible": the SAP Jam Evolution UX

Getting started with an OpenSocial application in Jam

Integration

SAP Jam developer community and OData API add flexibility for partners and developers

What's your work pattern? Now customize SAP Jam to transform how you work.

Use Cases

SAP Jam Helps Your Create A Learning Marketplace (Prashanth Padmanabhan blog)

Beyond Collaboration - Empowerment (Prashanth Padmanabhan blog)

SAP Jam For SAP ERP HCM Customers (Prashanth Padmanabhan blog)

Tasks In The Context Of Updates (Prashanth Padmanabhan blog)

SAPinsider: How SAP Jam connects colleagues, customers, and partners to drive results

Video: SAP Cloud for Customer - Collaboration with SAP Jam

Work patterns: How SAP Jam helps sales teams connect the dots

Split Second Selling with SAP Jam - 7 Use Cases!

Your performance goals need a goal post (Diginomica)

Video: Social learning with SAP Jam and SuccessFactors Learning Management System

Your Classroom Training Programs Can Have Movie Style Trailers (Prashanth Padmanabhan blog)

Use SAP Jam to Streamline Talent Management Through Social Collaboration (HR 2013) [registration required] (SAPexperts)

SAP Jam Social Onboarding and Learning (YouTube)

How SAP Uses The Integration Between SuccessFactors Learning and SAP Jam (Prashanth Padmanabhan blog)

Get more out of your SAP JAM implementation with these tips (SearchSAP)

SAP Education Takes Learning to the Cloud (SuccessFactors)

SAP Jam Acts Like A Catchment Area For Knowledge (Prashanth Padmanabhan blog)

The Document Is In My Jam Page (Prashanth Padmanabhan blog)

How SAP Jam helps your team resolve customer issues faster

Jam Page For SAP SuccessFactors Integration (Prashanth Padmanabhan blog)

A Killer Group to Jump Start your Enterprise Social Network

How SAP Jam Analytics Helps Make Operational Decisions (Prashanth Padmanabhan blog)

How SAP use SuccessFactors Learning and SAP Jam for its new SAP Learning Hub

Social And Collaborative Learning With SAP Jam And SAP Learning Solution: Scenario 1 (YouTube)

Social And Collaborative Learning With SAP Jam And SAP Learning Solution: Scenario 2 (YouTube)

Social And Collaborative Learning With SAP Jam And SAP Learning Solution: Scenario 3 (YouTube)

The Village Of Schaumburg, “Cloud Technology Brings Efficiency” (SAP Blog)

SAP Master Data Governance – Collaboration with SAP Jam

Case Studies

How SAP is using SAP Jam for mobile collaboration

Sapience* - Integrated Collaboration - SAP runs SAP Jam

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Video: How Sun Communities uses SuccessFactors and SAP Jam to streamline processes

Video: How Brookshire Grocery Company uses SuccessFactors and SAP Jam for learning management

Video: Kaeser streamlines sales and customer service with social collaboration and SAP Jam

SAPinsider: How TELUS Communications Benefits from SAP Jam

How one SAP sales team uses Jam to speed the sales cycle

Overcoming barriers to social learning and collaboration in health care

Village of Schaumburg Helps Serve its Citizens with SAP Jam (YouTube)

Telus uses SAP Jam as ‘glue’ in corporate culture transformation (itbusiness.ca)

Cloud Business Case #3: Collaboration in focus

How the San Jose Sharks organization is using SAP Jam to improve collaboration

SuccessStory: GENBAND unites global workforce with SAP Jam (YouTube)

Gamification

In social recognition systems, watch the gamification elements (SearchFinancialApplications.com)

Think like a Gamer to Goose User Adoption

Integration

SAP Jam ABAP Integration - Configuration Guide for SP Level 5

SAP Jam ABAP Integration - Configuration Guide for SP Level 6

SAP Jam Gateway Notification – Configuration Guide for SP Level 6

SAIL: Why we added a new application integration layer to SAP Jam

Introducing the new SAP Jam CMIS integration for Microsoft SharePoint

How To Add SAP Jam as IFTTT Channel

I’ve never been one to remain silent in a room. My ideas have always been heard. I attribute this ability to share my voice to my parents, teachers, and mentors, and to my education, as they all played a pivotal role in creating the professional woman I am today.

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But working in high-tech, I can’t help but notice how many women suppress their voices. As Linda Bernardi recently said, “Women, if you want to be heard, you’ve got to speak up. Roar!” We can all “lean in” and help each other, but that first step needs to start with our sisters, daughters, nieces, and friends in their youth. We need to influence girls when they’re young and before they have the potential to lose their voices.

On “losing voice”

Professor Carol Gilligan, author of the landmark feminist book, In a Different Voice, discovered a phenomenon among young girls known as “losing voice.” This refers to a sharp drop in confidence and social approval many girls encounter between childhood and womanhood. When there is too much resistance to their ideas, girls tend to simply give up trying to be heard.

And this happens when girls are on the verge of discovering all that the world has to offer. The Girl Scouts of America surveyed 12-year-old girls and reported that 74 percent say “improving the world around me” is their number one favorite activity. Imagine if these girls did not lose their voices. Their innovative ideas could change the world.

We need to empower every girl to find #HerVoice. Promote more female role models, encourage STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education, and create programs to help girls learn that their ideas matter. It’s not going to happen overnight. But I am encouraged by the next generation of young women who want to help girls find their voices and affect social change.

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Although the process itself evolves with each class and each iteration, one popular approach breaks down creativity into five stages: Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype, and Test. The important concept here is that these are not linear stages — they can, and often do, overlap or even occur all at once. By visualizing the process in new ways, girls can more effectively complete each step and present their final product with confidence.

Design thinking is all about building creative confidence. Girls Driving for a Difference will teach these workshops all over the country and give a voice to the next generation of world leaders.

SAP is a proud supporter of this initiative, fueled by strong women in leadership roles, such as CMO Maggie Chan Jones, Chief Learning Officer Jenny Dearborn and VP global SME and partner marketing Meaghan Sullivan.

New ideas, new leaders for a better world

Entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial thinking often come from unexpected places. Original perspectives disrupt the established order because these individuals approach problems from a different angle and can more clearly see a better way. And innovation comes from vocalizing these ideas.

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SAP giving back

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Hi,

In SBO_Transaction_Notification, what condition I should use to validate for AR Invoice Recurring Template?

I want to make certain fields mandatory at the time of creation of the template itself.

Thanks.

Hello All,

We have a requirement to run an elimination business rule only after 2015.06.  This rule should not get executed if consolidation package is run for any period before 2015.06. In other words, we have been asked to make  the elimination business rule time dependent.

I am looking at the "other dimensions filter" property and haven't found much documentation around it. I have two questions:

1. Is it possible to enter TIME in this field? For example TIME=2015.06. I tried and system successfully validated the rule but note 1479403 says that Category and Time dimensions  doesn't work in this filter. This note is for MS version and we are on BPC 10.0 NW version.

2. We already have a business rule wherein we are filtering ENTITY in this field. We are filtering ENTITY based on member ID such as ENTITY=0102. I was wondering if it is possible to filter ENTITY based on  its property? If yes, what would syntax be like?

Any help will be appreciated and thanked by allotting points.

Thanks,

Sanjeev

Hello All,

I have a requirement where I have to reverse the quantity of a delivery to 0,  complete the delivery and then I have to reject the sales order with reason code.

I am doing that in a program by calling  WS_DELIVERY_UPDATE_2(This is running successfully, COMMIT WORK and WAIT used after the FM) and then I am  calling  BAPI_SALESORDER_CHANGE, but I am getting the error saying the order is currently being processed by my user ID.

I have researched in SCN and found out NOTE 1414550, but we are in ECC 605 version (Note is not applicable), I tried even ENQUEUE and DEQUEUE as well, but it did not wok, your help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Kishore.

Hi,

I'm not able to identify - within the default IS repository - which table stores scorecards related data.

Any suggestion?

Thanks,

Riccardo

I go to open a report which is ok, I click on Reports tab and click refresh report data, then i select the dates I want to populate the new data. After I click ok it brings up the ODBC connection information where I put my credentials in and click ok. That is when I get the error "Failed to retrieve data from the database" and it shows this error message below. I know the database is working properly because I can pull the info fine when using Excel and it connects fine to the database. Anyone have any Ideas on what could be happening?

Failed to retrieve data from the database.

Details:42S22:[Oracle][ODBC][Ora]ORA-09904:

“VR_PMS_SALES”.”PARENT_FOLIO_ID”: invalid identifier

[Database Vendor Code: 904 ]

Hi,

Is there a field which stores the Balance Due amount for an AP Invoice in either the OPCH table or the OJDT table?

If not, what calculation should I use in my SQL which will give me EXACTLY the same value as shown in the Balance Due field in the AP Invoice on screen?

Example, whether I should use: OPCH.DocTotal - OPCH.PaidSum, or OPCH.DocTotal - OPCH.PaidToDate or any other column?

Thanks.

Dear Experts,

We are trying to integrate the backend services in the integration gateway for converting them as odata services.

The issue is when the response from SAP is in Array format then only first item is coming and all others are missed. But when are able to see the response from SOAP UI.

Attaching few screenshots which will explain the development flow and logs.

Any help in this area is really appreciated.

Thanks

Ady

Hi,

Is there any way we can prevent duplicate vendor invoice entry into SAP business one 2007 version?

Hi Everybody,

This is very nice topic. I want to know the best and right configuration of time dependency in ISU or CRM systems. As utilities master guide it says apply 1162804 note which is saying activate time dependency in ISU for not having movein-out errors.

• 1162804 - FG_PART: Time dependency of the business partner in IS-U ,year: 2008

Activate the time dependency of the business partner in Customizing by choosing

Cross-Application Components --> SAP Business Partner --> Activation Switch for Functions

for BUT000, BUT020, BUT0BK, and BUT100

in tb056

Then if we look at CRM also there are specific problems of not activating time dependency in CRM system.

• R11 244 (Error for validity periods of addresses )
• R11 349 (Data set &1 for BP &2 maintained time-dependently,despite inact.time dep.)

  Note 882726 - SAP BP: Error message R11 244 (BP Transaction + BAPIs)

  Note 1380576 - ECC BP to CRM BP address repln fails due to validity periods

  Note 1691224 - HRALX: Error message R11 349 when creating BP for org.unit

  Note 2063110 - Data set for BP maintained time-dependently

If we look at some OSS notes it says not activate time dependency.

• Note 810634 - Business partner data: Activation of time dependency, Year 2008

In CRM Release 5.0 and higher, the time dependency of BUT000 is not supported. Therefore, you cannot change this switch.

                    In general, the time dependency of other data parts in CRM should not be activated because no applications respond to this time-dependency. However, if an OLTP system is connected in which the business partner attributes are used time-dependently, the time dependency can be activated to keep the master data synchronous in both systems.

Very confusing. What is best configuration? Which settings active in you using in your systems for not facing any problems?

Hi ,

Currently for poland employees SU01 is not getting auto created in system.

But for other employees from UK, Norway does not have this issue.

Please share few information that will help me to check on this issue.

Regards,

HI All

We have 3 prompts

1 prompt user enter the values, 2 prompt with lov, 3 prompt with lov.

in the query we want to pass

select

datavalue,timestamp from numericlog where logname = concat(concat(prompt1,prompt2),prompt3)

so that the user can get the result set.

We are getting the above values from symentic layer. 

Can we do this in webi or we should do this on Symenticlayer itself or how should we do this.

Hi All,

I have a generic datasource activated for delta. But this data source brings all inventory movements to BW. My requirement is to just get delta related to movement types 251 and 101K.

Now my difficulty is I can not use movement type 251 with stock type K or in other words I can not use both movement types in a single delta info package.

My question is-

Can I have two delta info packages - one with movement type 251 as filter criteria and another with movement type 101 and stock type K as filter criteria?

I tried this as follows -

1. created first delta info package with mvt type 251 as filter

2. created second delta info package with mvt type 101 and stoke type K

But, what is happening is - when I save second info package system combines both movement types. I see two movement type fields in filter, one with value 251 and another with 101 and also stock type filed with value K.

or

is there a better approach to achieve this?

Thanks,

Pat.

Hello All,

We are on HANA SPS 08 Rev 85, Statistics server(standalone) was restarted due to OOM. My question here is does this cause a dump(ST22) in XXX(SAP Application system)?

XXX(SAP Application) ------> YYY(SLT) -----> HANA

Does restarting/stopping statistics server causes system halt? Will there be any effect on HANA during statisticsserver restart?

Any information is appreciated.

Regards,

Dheeraj

Hi,

I have a scenario wherein the Query iteration needs to be controlled dynamically based on Input Parameter. I feel this scenario can be managed only byCursor but I am not sure about the usage of Control Statement within cursor to manage SQL iteration dynamically. Please suggest options other than Cursor in case you disagree.

Given scenario will provide you more clarity on my question.

Scenario:

In the given scenario Start Date/End Date will be provided by the Input Parameter. Consider Start Date/End Date is '20150105'/'20150315', then for each Month i.e Jan2015, Feb2015 and Mar2015 I need to get the ID numbers greater than the Maximum ID number from last month.

i.e. ID numbers for 20150101-20150131 should be greater than Maximum ID number from Dec2014, ID's of Feb2015 should be greater than Jan2015 and of Mar2015 should be greater than Feb2015. Also if same ID exist in multiple months then consider the ID only once when it appeared for the first month.

I can get Maximum ID number for Dec2014, Jan2015 and Feb2015 using Group By. Based on the Maximum ID and Input Months, I can get ID's greater than these prior months Max ID's for given date range.

Question:

How can I use Control Statement/Loop within the cursor that can dynamically control the SQL execution based on Input Parameter(
Number of months in given Date Range).

So if the Input Parameters is 20150105-20150315 then based on number of months, the Select Query should be executed 3 times to get ID's for each month greater than prior month Maximum ID's.

Finally how can I combine output of this 3 month in a single variable.

Any response will be much appreciated.

Regards

Randhir Jha

Hi Team,

When I am trying to CIF a contract, it gives me the error message:

System:    A14CLNT100    User:  A02CLNT100 06/12/2015 15:24:53

Function/Q/SAPAPO/CIF_TPSRC_INBOUND

Text:        Product for external product number 00000000001018

I know that this is due to material which I didn't CIF earlier but the problem is that material is truncated.

Here the complete material code is not coming. The error is only displaying the 14 characters instead of 18 characters of a material code.

I am not even able to find the message class/number for this error.

Is there any setting by which we can display the complete material code number.

Any help would be highly appreciated.

Thanks,

Nidhi

I have a new form for delivery processing.  in the window Main I have a line with a paragraph format (ZL) that uses font Courier 9.  When I process this output in DEV, everything is lined up as I would want.  I moved everything to TST and now the font is different and item data is not lined up properly.  I have the same sapscript, same program.  Originally I was using another form and it would not work, so I copied it into a new sapscript and a new output type - same result.  Any suggestions on where to look next?  I just am perplexed as to what I have missed?

Susan