Friday, 22 January 2021

SAP Geographical Enablement Framework (SAP GEF) – Technical Setup on SAP S/4HANA

Introduction

In this blog post I describe the steps I followed to prepare an SAP S/4HANA 1909 system for SAP Geographical Enablement Framework (SAP GEF) functional configuration. This blog post only addresses the technical pre-requisites to be able to handover to an EAM consultant for GEF configuration.

Software Installation

ABAP Layer

Addon

Component Release  Current SP   Target SP   Password  Add-On Installation 
UIGEF001 100  N/A  N/A  SAPK-100AGINUIGEF001

SAP HANA

HCO_GEF_DATA 100 Deployment Unit

SAP Notes


Install the following notes using transaction SNOTE ensuring manual actions are also performed where necessary:

2835403 GEF Explorer Get Metadata Fields Without Domains CA-EPT-GEF
2922384  GEF Explorer – UI Update fixes when moving map  CA-EPT-GEF 
2940000  GEF REST Services and API Corrections  CA-EPT-GEF 
2959177  GEF Fix Outstanding REST Issues  CA-EPT-GEF 
2962542  GEF UI Fixes and Italian language support  CA-EPT-GEF 
2983640  GEF Fix Search by Date Issue CA-EPT-GEF 

SAP HANA User Provisioning


User: GEF_USER

Roles: sap.gef.data::gef_user AND sap.gef.data::gef_admin

User: ESH_USER

Role: This user must be assigned the object authorizations sys.trexviadbsl and sys.trexviadbslwithparameter. The database user also needs authorization to execute the following SQL commands on the SAP database schema (SAPSID): SELECT, INDEX, ALTER

NOTE: Set passwords to never expire, once created can you please email me with the passwords

Create DBCO Entries


GEF Connector

DB Connection: <SID>_GEF

DBMS: HDB

User Name: GEF_USER

DB Password: xxxxxxxxxx

Conn Info.: <FQHN of the DB Server>:<HANA Port> (eg ob7db.myorg.com:30015)

Permanent: Checked

ESH Connector

DB Connection: <SID>_ESH

DBMS: HDB

User Name: ESH_USER

DB Password: xxxxxxxxxx

Conn Info.: <FQHN of the DB Server>:<HANA Port> (eg ob7db.myorg.com:30015)

Permanent: Checked

Testing

SE38 -> ADBC_TEST_CONNECTION

IMG Configuration


Fix for 1909 Upgrade Defect

/nGEF_CRT_TAB

1. Run transaction GEF_CRT_TAB
2. Use the default values or change to match the custom values used in a prior execution of the report (when creating tables/view for local SRID deployment)
3. Set a new value for the View Suffix if view already exists
4. Set the Create View Only parameter value to “X” and execute. A new view will have been created in the SAP_GEF schema
5. Run transaction GEF_FRW_CONFIG and select the “System Settings” Node
6. Replace the GDB View Name entry with the name entered in the View Suffix of step 3
7. Save configuration changes
 

GEF Configuration Check


Before handing over to the functional team it’s worth checking the following. Success means that the ‘Supports History’ flag is checked in the below screen

/nGEF_FRW_CONFIG

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GIS Providers


/nGEF_GIS_CONFIG

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SICF Activations

 
NOTE: This needs to be done manually as the build migrates through the landscape:

ESRI & Rest Services


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GEF UI Services


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Enterprise Search Setup


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Equipment

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Functional Location


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Locator Search


SM30 -> GEFV_LOCATOR

Ensure the following entries are inside this view:

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