How to Find Which Structure is Included in Which Structure?

Introduction

In Every Projects you go there will be requirement to enhance the Standard Screen to add some new Custom Fields. The general approach you do use Append Structure and add your Custom Fields. Sometime while analysing it may happen that you have the Append Structure name but you cannot find the Actual Structure it is attached to. You must be thinking Where-used list should help you find out but No it does not.

Solution:

Let us first analyze the issue. Suppose the below structure I am looking to find where is attached.

SAP HANA XS Advanced Administration, Deployment and Operations

1. Deployment Options

There are various ways of deploying the XS Advanced runtime. Before deploying the XSA many scenarios need to considered that will have impact on your landscape maintenance activity .For example the system refresh scenarios where you will need to refresh only a certain tenants instead of complete system this deployment plays a key role . I will go through the limitations in detail in backup restore section. In general, The following additional services run where XSA is deployed:

◉ xscontroller: Central management component of XSA. It has a view on all deployed and/or running applications, and persists configuration and status information in the database

SAP S/4 HANA Cloud Essentials MBC Bank Payments Automation

BACKGROUND

The scope of the blog is to describe the high-level architecture and the configuration steps required to integrate SAP S/4 HANA Cloud Essentials with the banks using SAP Multi-Bank Connector deployed on Business Technology Platform.

WHAT IS A MULTI BANK CONNECTOR?

MBC is a combination of SAP Managed CPI version deployed on SAP Business Technology Platform that is compliant with the banking security standards and SPRO Configuration that will be activated on SAP S/4 HANA Cloud Essentials backend when you purchase 16R Scope Item on SAP S/4 HANA Cloud Essentials (SPRO won’t be available for users on S/4HANA Cloud Essentials).

Google Cloud backint – Non-prod Hana DB recovery using production backint backup

Blog explains Hana database recovery process on google cloud environment. its applicable for SAP homogeneous system copy scenarios where stage or non-production database get refresh using production data backup which is located on google cloud storage bucket.

Google backint tool  – introduction

Google backint is use for HANA backup and recovery on google cloud environment. High level it directly stores backups on cloud storage and speed up backup/recovery due to use of parallel channels.

Standard backint backup configuration work for same server/SID recovery scenario but doesn’t work for different SID / server recovery scenario.  i.e. using one server DB backup to restore on other DB server via backint.  This blog will address on require setup to make such recovery easy and faster.

S/4HANA – Extensibility Inventory fiori App

Overview of Extensibility Inventory

We can use this app to display an overview of your extensibility items and to view associations or dependencies between various extensibility items.

The Standard view in this app displays all existing extensibility items. To easily locate a given extensibility item, you can enter its name in the search box.

By clicking on an extensibility item, you can view information about it. The following information is provided:

Cost Center Budget Availability Control – S/4 HANA 1909

Cost Center Budget & Commitment

This blog post details the configuration steps of Cost Center Budget and Commitment, which is the new functionalities introduced from On Premise solution – S/4 HANA 1909.

Budget availability control allows you to control budget consumption in cost centers, which you’re responsible for. It supports business processes, from budgeting to cost postings, and it offers specific budget reporting for the budget and cost-carrying objects

SAP HANA Upgrade from 1.0 to 2.0, project options.

In the recent few months, there were several questions about HANA 2.0 upgrade in the forums. Some developers thought that, it is a big change and lot of things get changed with that. It is not true though in all cases. In this blog, I am writing about the options generally available while doing the upgrade project to 2.0.

If it is just a database upgrade, then It is fairly a simple process which is taken care by basis/Admin team, leaving modelers/developers with no specific task to be done during this process.

Consume Qualtrics survey results in SAP Analytics Cloud with live connection to SAP HANA service

More than ever businesses around the world are recognizing the importance of treating their customers and employees like ‘real’ people and not “users”, “buyers” , “resources”et al. Welcome to the experience economy! It is time everyone understands the importance of experience management and the powerful outcome and business value generated through the insights obtained by combining X-data and O-data.

SAP offers some powerful solutions to enable such an experience economy. SAP Business Technology Platform at the core and center helps businesses in by connecting X-data from Qualtrics and O-data from various SAP Line of Business services together. SAP Analytics cloud is the go-to analytical solution offering on the platform, that can be leveraged for data-driven insights connecting O-Data from  Line of Businesses to X-Data from Qualtrics, enabling decisions that create “people experiences”

Overview of SAP HANA 2.0

In this blog post I want to elaborate and giving you an overview of SAP HANA 2.0.

Overview

Need for Digital Platform

The world is becoming the digital world, the world is now more connected and digital due to the extreme growth of mobile and tablets devices results the huge increase of data volume in every seconds and now the addition of “Intelligent” is much needed like never before. The “Intelligent” is that how we can get reward from any raw data smoothly. In today’s world the users needs instant response for their queries no matter how far the responsible person is. Data science is also available to businesses and every economic sector, this means machine learning and AI (Artificial Intelligence) is now displaying in every application due to this rapid and fruitful responses creating in every moment. New types of data is also available because of this the analysis on huge data has its high.

Load flat file decimal values to ADSO (SAP BI) and access in SAP HANA Cal view ( eclipse/H Studio)

We had a requirement to load GAS emission data into SAP BI, as the business does a lot of manual calculations in excel, to get the emission factor which is dependent on multiple values. They first need to sum up the values, do a standard deviations, SQRT of some NO2, Co2, IC4 values, divide it by some factor etc., which is a heavy excel based lookups and calcuations.