Be a Cockroach: A Simple Guide to AI and SAP Full-Stack Development - Part II

Disclaimer: There are various methods to develop the SAP RAP program, but I've opted for a basic approach to comprehend table custom concepts and explore the fundamentals from a beginner's perspective. If you're already proficient in advanced techniques, feel free to move on and explore other content.

I) Introduction:

If you're new to this blog series, I recommend starting with PART-1 by clicking the link provided. This post is PART-2, so starting with PART-1 will help you grasp the topic better, especially since it uses story-based learning.

Be a Cockroach: A Simple Guide to AI and SAP Full-Stack Development - Part I

Disclaimer: This blog delves into SAP full-stack development, incorporating SAP RAP for both front-end and back-end functionalities, Integration Suite for middleware tasks, TensorFlow for AI/ML modeling, and crafting a personalized system dashboard. Geared towards simplifying complex business systems through engaging stories, it's for those wanting to understand these concepts. If you're already well-versed, feel free to just stop here and explore other content.

I) Introduction (Story):

Most people came here to see what he has to say about cockroaches and their connection to SAP development. Some might be curious to learn about it. Few of you could feel grossed out and think cockroaches are yucky and ugly! But after reading this section, I hope you'll respect these special creatures called “COCKROACH”.

Our Way into the Clean Core

Where are we coming from

We are a long-standing software partner of SAP, specializing in supply chain AddOns for nearly 20 years. We have different solutions inside of the portfolio and the older ones are more procedural coding, while the newer ones have more object oriented, more unit testing, and so on. But the big majority of all user interfaces are ALV Grid, ALV Tree and graphics (based on cl_gui_chart_engine). By the time we developed our own framework for these tools, so that it is easy to create several new containers with ALVs, letting the user decide, if he wants to use docking containers or dialogbox containers, support multi screens and so on.

In essence, we had a user interface that our end users greatly appreciated due to its ease of use. However, despite creating additional UI5 applications in recent years, most of our current users continue to work primarily within the SAP GUI. As a result, our initial plans were to gradually transition to more UI5-based applications. But the pressure to do so wasn’t significant, at least not from our customer base.

RDG eases the process of data replication through SOA services with custom enhancements.

Syniti RDG is an SAP-endorsed application on the Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) to facilitate MDG implementation with intuitive UI and process automation.

RDG eases the process of data replication by setting data replication configuration steps like data replication model, create and maintain business systems and can map standard and customized attributes with different mapping transformations. This simplifies the process onto one easy to navigate screen. RDG replication via IDoc or via services (WSDL and SOA) are available and are dependent on the outbound implementation selected. Custom enhancements with replication of data can also be created in SOA proxy structure depending on business requirements.

Simple way to renew NW ABAP SSL certificate with STRUST Replacement Wizard

Overview:

Many a times it is seen that when SSL certificate of a server is expired or when new application servers are introduced in landscape, we need to share Certificate Signing request (CSR) with Certificate Authority (CA).

Method generally used is to create CSR form SSL Server Standard pse of STRUST and share with CA but sometime below error appears at CA side CSR doesn’t conform to policy and new CSR must be generated or pse error while importing.

Organize and categorize your documentation in SAP Cloud ALM

I want to highlight some important new features of “Documents” that will help you better organize your documentation in SAP Cloud ALM.

Create Process Hierarchy

You might already know about and use the functionality to create your own process hierarchy. You can access this feature from the “Processes” application or by adding the tile to your launchpad.

Calling Fragment Form & Send it as an attachment using ABAP Walk-Through

This Blog is based on the Output Management Form and has all of its configuration completed 

Ex for dunning: use maintenance view: V_T047E using code: sm30 to switch between frameworks through drop-down list

BODS migration

In this blog, I have detailed the steps taken for SAP BODS application migration from existing on premises to HANA database including the DR Testing Setup.

The Purpose of this blog is to provide a guidance path for migration of the BODS Application to HANA.

Existing Landscape Design:

1. The IPS and DS version remain the same as on premises.

Working with Business Application Studio with Azure Git and Deploy application in On-Premise system

Azure Git with BAS

Preparing Git for a new Project

◉ Open Azure

Create trusted RFC with specific technical user

As the SAP Basis administrator, we understand how to set up a trusted RFC connection between ABAP systems. This allows us to connect to the target system using our current user credentials, without needing to input them again, as shown in the screenshot. I hope this blog post finds you in good health. If you have any questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to reach out to me.

But what if we want to use a specific technical user and still want to benefit from trusted RFC? Actually, we can do it with the same method and I will show you how in this blog post.

How to identify the actually used UserInterface Technology from ABAP

I would like to share with you a method I wrote in my last S/4HANA 2022 Assetmanagement Project to identify from ABAP side (Userexit, BADI, Enhancement, ...) the UserInterface (UI) Technology ("WinGUI", "htmlbased GUI", "WebDynpro", "Fiori", ...) the user is currently using.

Fiori PO Approver app Accept and Reject button customization from ECC backend

Many time there are custom requirements for which it requires the need of creating Enhancement in standard SAP functionality.

Overview: PO Approvers are maintained in Release Strategy. Once the PO is generated it is set to be approved by PO approvers based on the levels maintained in PPOME structure. Only then the PO will be set to 03 status in EKKO.

Pre-requisite: All the roles and authorization must be given to the approvers to access the PO Approval Tile in SAP Fiori.

Adapt Clean Core Principle using SAP Cloud ALM

Introduction:

The main aspect of an ERP systems are:

◉ Business Processes

◉ Extensibility

◉ Data

◉ Integration

◉ Operations