Category: SAP

SAP IGS

Sometimes still needed, the SAP IGS is a pure source of joy.. The Internet Graphics Service (IGS) helps to display graphics in an Internet browser. It’s used eg. in HTML GUI or Web Dynpro ABAP/Java and “provides a server architecture where data from an SAP system or another source can be used to generate graphical or non-graphical output.” The component...

VSCode devcontainer (part 2)

After setting up podman to be used as a devcontainer in VSCode in the previous blog-post, here are some links for a further deep-dive and next steps: https://benmatselby.dev/post/vscode-dev-containers/ Quick repeat of what is a devcontainer https://mkdev.me/posts/dockerless-part-1-which-tools-to-replace-docker-with-and-why Blog-series about using podman as a docker replacement. https://blogs.sap.com/2022/02/01/boosting-tutorial-ux-with-dev-containers-part-3-containers-into-action/ First steps in the devcontainer based on Create a CAP Application and SAP Fiori UI...

VSCode devcontainer (part 1)

Coding SAP is Eclipse based ADT, it’s Business Application Studio and.. oh sure it’s VSCode. I’m playing around with CDS, UI5 and CAP. But – and this is important – i don’t want to pollute my system with strange dependencies like npm (see here). But there is a solution for that.. – using devcontainers in VSCode. What is a Devcontainer?...

The history of…

IT: Fresh and Felicia – The History Of Computers, Programming, and Coding: A Not Boring Introduction Mark Rendle (DevCon 2016) – Keynote session: The History of Programming SAP: The Origin of SAP: The Perfect First Customer (SAP celebrate 50 years) History of ABAP – R/2 -> R/3 Unix: AT&T Archives – The UNIX Operating System History of Gnu, Linux, Free...

OData and SAP

Next of my blog-Posts on community.sap.com is up. This time on the various possibilities of using OData within the SAP ecosystem. Howto OData – High level overview Aim is to get an overview of OData and how it can be utilized in the SAP ecosystem. The following topics are covered: 1) What is Odata? 2) How is this useful in...

HANA 2.0 & Log4J @Home

Monday to Friday: Log4J @Work Weekend: Log4J @Home 🙂 HANA 2.0: HANA XSA log4j CVE-2021-44228 Ubiquity: UniFi Controller security concern (zero-day Log4j exploit) Docker: https://www.docker.com/blog/apache-log4j-2-cve-2021-44228/ Eclipse https://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_and_log4j2_vulnerability_(CVE-2021-44228) Full List Github – @SwitHak SwitHak/20211210-TLP-WHITE_LOG4J.md Other interesting stuff: https://www.cisecurity.org/log4j-zero-day-vulnerability-response/ https://log4jmemes.com/

SAP HANA 2.0 express edition on Proxmox

I finally finished the blog-post on the HANA 2.0 express edition installation on Proxmox. see SAP Community to read it Can’t wait to do the first release-upgrade 😉

UI5 Linklist – From Abap to Fullstack

see: https://jacekw.dev/blog/2022/from-abap-to-fullstack/ Linklist: UI5: Licensing 30 days of UI5 Get Started: Setup, Tutorials, and Demo Apps UI5 Sample Library Clean SAPUI5: More readable, maintainable and testable code TechEd 2022 – Bringing UI to the Next Level with SAPUI5 and UI5 Web Components CSS: CSS-Tricks https://lesscss.org/ JavaScript/TypeScript: https://exploringjs.com/index.html Programing Models: CAP

SAP – SAC Webinar Series

There is an interesting Webinar Series about SAC (6h in sum). No deep-dive, as promised, but a nice overview on the capabilities of the SAC frontend. My opinion: Great reporting frontend, targeted to self-service build dashboards. Event.on24.com – SAC Webinar Series Content: 1) Visualize Data with SAP Analytics Cloud 2) Design Stories Worth Sharing 3) Get Smart with Augmented Analytics...

SAP – BTP, RAP, CAP, CDS, WTF…

My first blog-post on the SAP community page is live. SAP Business Technology Platform: What’s that, what can you do with it, and why you should have a look at it… SAP Blogs – BTP, SCP, CAP, RAP… OMG