Principal Propagation between HTML5- or Java-based applications and SAP HANA XS on SAP HANA Cloud Platform

Introduction

Although there is no standardized definition of the term “Principal Propagation”, it is commonly understood as the ability of a system to securely forward or propagate the authenticated user (principal) from a sender to a receiver in a way that the forwarded user information is kept confidential and – even more important – cannot be changed during transit. Based on a pre-established trust relationship to the sender, the receiver uses this information to logon the user without asking her again for the credentials.

Update SAP B1 rates using HANA XS and ServiceLayer

In this post we will do the same but using HANA XS as the development and administrating tool and B1 Service Layer as the data interface. This approach is applicable to SAP Business One version for HANA since SQL Server version doesn’t support neither XS nor ServiceLayer. After you have performed all steps you can schedule currency rates updating using standard HANA tools to update your rates regularly. This application updates rates for all currencies in your company using ECB (European Central Bank) web-service. Rates are updated according to company rate direction (Direct/Indirect rate) and using Euro cross-rate (in case the local currency is not Euro). Company details are passed in job settings.

Establishing the Live HANA on-premise Connection from SAP Analytics Cloud using CORS

The HANA CORS (Cross Origin Resource Sharing) configuration is straight forward but as the old saying goes, a picture paints a thousand words.  Such a shame that the SAP documentation policy is does not allow screenshots.  I have therefore tried to capture the configuration steps here.

SAP Analytics Cloud Version 2018.1.0
SAP HANA Version 1.00.111 (SPS 11).

SAP HANA 2.0 Express Edition, Transport between Tenants

This blog is about how to transport a User-Role between two Tenants within one instance of SAP HANA 2.0 Express.

To enlarge the pictures press STRG++ to Zoom In and STRG– to Zoom Out.

How to download & install SAP HANA Express is explained in this Youtube-Video

I am using the Package “Server only virtual machine”.

HANA XS Core Data Services (CDS) – Troubleshooting, tips and tricks

Today I have decided to create the blog post for people who are struggling with Cloud Platform and HANA XS. My googling skills revealed that the blog posts available here do not tell you important things that you have to know. E.g. there are even mistakes in the code and you should invest your precious time to solve them.

I hope, this blog article will be interesting and helpful for you as it might be interesting for me in cast I forget something. It will be also great if developers read it and improve the product (doesn’t matter which one, but simply improve). By the way, I plan to update the article as long as I will be working with CDS.