One of the problems that I usual find on SAP Systems running with DB2 is the performance of the full backup. Unfortunately this is one of the topics that is most difficult to find information about. Of course we can find information about the backup buffer size, parallelism, backup devices performance, etc. But sometimes the […]
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SAP 2018 Review and 2019 Predictions!
Another year gone and 2019 just arrived a couple weeks ago. Now it is a good idea to see what happened in the SAP Ecosystem in 2018 and what 2019 will bring: What happened in 2018 Biggest new of the year was the acquisition of Qualtrics by SAP. As you may now it was the […]
Happy 2019!
I hope you ended 2018 well and started 2019 in the best way possible. Remember, 1 year = 365 opportunities!
SAP to acquire Qualtrics International Inc.
I was enjoying a weekend away with my wife and relaxing far from SAP Ecosystem when a friend told me: ‘Do you know that SAP bought Qualtrics for $8 billion?’. At the beginning I was not surprise. It is not the first time SAP acquire a new company. This is the 69th acquisition after big […]
OpenText 101: Archive Server system refresh
A recurring topic were a lot of SAP/OT maintenance team struggle is what to do with the Archive Server when performing a SAP system refresh. Let’s be honest: How many of you had the same issue? I had it couple of times in the last months… This happens because it is not really clear how […]
Interesting times for SAP on Linux
Long time since the last time I wrote an entry! Lot of interesting things happened during this time (SAP TechEd Vegas & Barcelona for example) but today I want to write about Linux in the SAP ecosystem. We have two news quite interesting that will represent a huge impact for those of you who use […]
SAP Performance 101: Improving ABAP Code
A few days ago I received the SAP Community Voice Newsletter in my email. I recommend you signing in SAP newsletters since they have really interesting articles about different topics. Anyway I found in the newsletter a really interesting article about improving ABAP code performance that I totally recommend to read: How To Improve Your […]
SAP Webinars available in the SAP Support Portal
A sort post before starting the weekend! Maybe you have extra free time during this weekend so this is a good idea. During the last months SAP performed a series of webinars about important aspects of the Basis Administration. The good thing is that the recorded sessions can be found in the SAP Support Portal. […]
Patching SAP JAVA Stacks with SAP Maintenance Planner
Last year I posted an article about patching Patching SAP JAVA Stacks with NW Java Support Tool. A lot of things change in a year and now we can plan our SAP JAVA system patchs using SAP Maintenance Planner! Time ago this was not possible using the neither the SAP SolMan MOPZ or the newest […]
SAP Performance 101: The back-end sessions terminated
A few weeks ago one of my customers have an issue with an SAP ERP system running on SLES 12 + SAP HANA 1.22. The dammed error message “back-end session terminated” appeard which usually means having fun checking really inside of the SAP system. I think this case is quite interesting because the solution was […]