SAP Basis

Basis - System Message SM02

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Configure System Messages For example, when a user blocks himself out and receives a message : "User blocked. Contact system administrator" You can open a repair and change the message in Message class 00. This can be done in transaction SE91 - Message Maintenance. Messages allow you to communicate with the users from your programs. They are mainly used when the user has made an invalid

Changing the default password for sap* user

2012-01-05T20:33:00.001-08:00

You are trying to change the password for sap* user, however when you go into su01 and enter sap* as the user name, the following message is displayed, user sap* does not exist. You can delete the SAP* user using ABAP code :- Delete from usr02 where bname = 'SAP*' and mandt = '***'; Where '***' means your client no. Then login to your client using password SAP* and password PASS However, if

Changing the Title of SAP Transaction

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Sometimes, internal user or customer might request you to change the Title of the SAP Transaction code to a more meaningful one and SAP allows this to be done painlessly. The steps to change the Title of any SAP transaction code are as follows: First, goto tcode SE63 On the top left Menu of the screen - Click Translation - Short texts - Transactions For example, assuming you want to change

Creating a SAP mail distribution lists

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Transaction code SO23 X Shared distribution lists Name : ZXXXX Title : XXXXX Mail Distribution Don't enter anything in the Folder field. Folder : Click the down arrow Next screen : Folder Name : ZXXXX Folder Title : Mailing address Folder Area : Shared Click Create Folder Next screen : Indexing : Tick Specify the 'Retention period of a document in this folder (days)'. Choose the '

Fwd: Delete multiple spool request

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The program are RSPO0041 or RSPO1041. This is handy whenever you encounter a user who managed to create a lot of spool requests which are choking your system. Deleting them with SP01 will be too slow and you will get time out if it exceed the online time limit specify by your basis people.

Find your SAP transport request number even if you forgot

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If you happend to be one of those who forgot the transport request number of your abap program. You can easily find it via the Versions Management. Steps :- Transaction SE38 Filled in your ABAP program name. Then click Utilities -> Versions -> Version Management SAP system will display this sample list :- Versions: Report source ZPROGRAM Version Cat Fla SAP Rel. Arch Request

Hide the User Menu

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Is there a way of masking or hiding the User Menus as we are using SAP Standard Menu instead of User Based Menus? To put it simple, when the user logs on to the system he should have only the SAP Standard Menu. You have two ways to control this : 1. Default hide for all the SAP users. Goto SM30 and edit the table SSM_CUST and set ALL_USER_MENUS_OFF = YES and transport the same in

How can I create multiple User Id at Random

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We usually created Id though SU01, it only one by one. Can I create multiple user id having same profile at once. Yes you can, use tcode SCAT. First, make sure your client setting (SCC4) is enabled with ' X eCATT and CATT allowed'. Just in case your Production disabled this. - Then, you need to create a simulation (test case) of creating new user id by calling tcode SU01 later. -

How can I print A3 format in SAP

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My printer is HP LaserJet 5100 Note I can print ms word document in A3 format but I can't print A3 format in SAP My output device setting are: DeviceAttributes: Device Type = THSAPWIN: MS-Windows-Printer via SAPLPD Device Class = Standard printer Access Method: Host Spool Access Method = S: Print Using SAP Protocol When I print SM50 output and select format X_65_255, it can print

Information on how the OPS$ Users Work

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Content Author: Sachin D. J. Does anyone have information or a good understanding of how the OPS$ users work and operate under an Oracle SAP environment. I would greatly appreciate some assistance as I have problems with my Brconnect and Brbackup within DB13 due to the OPS$ users. I need info on how to permanently delete the OPS$ users and then recreate it, due to the fact that I have

How to Check Missing Authorisation for User

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How to check the missing authorisation for the user not having the option "/nsu53 ?" You can use the following procedures to determine which authorizations a user requires to carry out a transaction: You can use Trace function, ST01, you can trace the user activity and from the log you can see the authorization missing. Start an authorization trace using the ST01 transaction and carry out the

Incorrect SAP login logs

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With report RSUSR006, you can check those users that have been locked. For those that are not locked, the report will list down the number of wrong login that the users have done.

How To Do the TMS Configuration?

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We have two systems with version ECC 5.0 The SID is XY1 - Development & Quality XY6 - Production Now we need to configure TMS between these two systems by assigning XY1 as domain controller. I beleive we also need to establish an RFC Connection for this. Also explain how to update the local files of this systems? How can I make thro it? First decide which system you would

List of Inactive Users Logs

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To list out all the users who are inactive for the last 6 months, which means they have not logged into the SAP server. If you have lots of affiliates to your main company, this will result in lots of users. Out of them, there might be lots of inactive users who have left the company. You may wish to delete those inactive users. Use SA38 to run RSUSR200. This report is part of the AIS (

Mass Lock All Printers with SPAD

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If you have lots of printers (50 or more) and need to lock them for maintenance, you can used this mass locked printers tips to locked or unlocked all the SAP printers at one go. To mass Lock all the printer in SAP: Go to transaction code SPAD On top of the screen menu click Utilities -> For output devices -> Export devices On the screen Import and Export of Device Descriptions: Export/

Meaning behind those unconditional tp command mode

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Content Author: PrakashP Can anyone tell me what's the meaning behind all those unconditional mode U1 or U126 or U148 or anything? tp import transportrequest <sid> clientxxx U1 tp import transportrequest <sid> clientxxx U126 tp import transportrequest <sid> clientxxx U148 The u stands for unconditional force ( how hard you want to force the request into the system - do you want to overwrite

Monitor and Administrate 4 SAP Systems

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If there are 4 systems installed SAP, how should I connect all of them in one network so that I can administrate the 4 systems with one among them as main server. This should help you: After installing an R/3 System, you can use transaction RZ20 to monitor the system. To monitor all systems of your system landscape centrally from one system, first customize the alert monitor by choosing Tools >

No System name and transaction code in SM04

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If you have more than one application server, use AL08 instead of SM04. or It is because they are at the logon screen which has established a connection. You will notice that the transaction code shown when there is no user name is SESSION_MANAGER. This shows you which workstations out there have the login screen up but have not yet entered a user name and password. The transaction column

Parallel printing to all the SAP device printers

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If you have a situation where reports need to be send to multiple printers, you can configure a pool device type. A pool device type contain a list of SAP printers which the reports will be directed to. Do this in transaction code SPAD for spool administration. For example, in SPAD, type ZXXX next to the field 'Output devices', Click the button Output devices. In change mode, click the Create

Remove the import all request (big truck) button from STMS

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To change the automatically generated profile parameters for the transport control program: Log onto the SAP System functioning as the transport domain controller (the QA or PROD system). Call Transaction STMS. Choose Overview -> Systems. The system overview appears. Double click on the SAP System you want to change. In the SAP System, click Configuration -> Change. The screen

Reporting a Problem to SAP

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When I tried to report a problem to SAP using http://service.sap.com/message url it provided 4 steps to follow: 1) Choose system 2) Prepare Solution Search 3) Find Solution 4) Enter Message I could do the step 1 but dont know what to do at steps 2, 3 and 4. SAP changed the customer message screens so you now have to navigate through a search of the SAP Notes before being able to create

SAP Administrator Daily Activities

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SAP DAILY ACTIVITIES 1] Check that all the application servers are up: sm51 SAP Servers sm04/al08 Logon Users 2] Check that daily backup are executed without errors db12 Backup logs: overview 3] SAP standard background jobs are running successfully. Review for cancelled and critical jobs. sm37 Background jobs--- Check for successful completion of jobs. Enter * in user-id

SAP Load Balancing

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The benefit of segregating user groups by line-of-business (using logon groups) is related to the point that groups of users (like SD users or HR users, for example) tend to use the same sets of data. They (generally) work with the same groups of tables and hit the same indexes using the same programs (transactions). So, if you can group all of the users hitting the same tables, onto (or one

SAP System Performance Issues

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My server becomes slow when more users login. What could be the reason? Is it because of less hardware resource? Server configuration is 104GB HDD, 2GB Ram. OS:Win 2003 server. Database:Oracle. I manage SAP R/3 4.6C systems on Risc 6000 machines, under Oracle 9.2. The overall performance problem for me is to know if SAP response time is acceptable ; if not, do this : - at AIX level :

Search for SAP Transaction codes

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You can access all the transaction codes by using the transaction code 'SDMO'. This is the transaction code for the Dynamic Menu. Based on your search string, you can get all related transaction codes for all the SAP application modules.

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