http://www.sdn.sap.com/sdn/weblogs.sdn?blog=/pub/u/16521 SAP Developer Network SAP Weblogs by Martin English © Copyright 2009 SAP. All rights reserved. SAP.com en-us http://weblogs.sdn.sap.com/pub/wlg/16493 Once upon a time, before the Dinosaurs were told to go away and die, there was code sharing ..... Martin English Beyond SAP, Open Source en-us 2009-10-29T23:35-08:00 text/html © Copyright 2009 SAP. All rights reserved. SAP http://weblogs.sdn.sap.com/pub/wlg/16205 Remove access to transaction SE16N from your production systems. Martin English ERP, SAP NetWeaver Platform, Security en-us 2009-10-09T05:41-08:00 text/html © Copyright 2009 SAP. All rights reserved. SAP http://weblogs.sdn.sap.com/pub/wlg/15219 Does your Boss's schedule assist or disrupt your work ? Martin English Beyond SAP en-us 2009-07-29T09:17-08:00 text/html © Copyright 2009 SAP. All rights reserved. SAP http://weblogs.sdn.sap.com/pub/wlg/15071 SAP Mentor Nominations.... A blatant appeal to your self-interest. Martin English SAP Developer Network en-us 2009-07-20T10:24-08:00 text/html © Copyright 2009 SAP. All rights reserved. SAP http://weblogs.sdn.sap.com/pub/wlg/15050 A basic metric for system-wide performance is up time, or system availability. Generally, this is absolute time less scheduled outages. There are many manual and automatic ways of tracking this, but one of the simplest, yet most accurate, for an SAP system is the available.log. Martin English Beginner en-us 2009-07-16T05:01-08:00 text/html © Copyright 2009 SAP. All rights reserved. SAP http://weblogs.sdn.sap.com/pub/wlg/14763 Run up an SAP system, backed by 150GB of DB2 data, without having to beg, steal or borrow the hardware .... I have created a public image on Amazon Web Services that can be used as the basis (sorry) for installing an SAP system on Windows. This blog details how to install an IDES system, using this public image and Amazon's EBS feature for persistent data. Martin English Emerging Technologies, SAP NetWeaver Platform en-us 2009-06-30T07:49-08:00 text/html © Copyright 2009 SAP. All rights reserved. SAP http://weblogs.sdn.sap.com/pub/wlg/14760 In this post, I describe how I setup an Amazon Web Services windows environment to be used for installing SAP ABAP and Java stacks. I show how to: * identify the appropriate starting image, from those provided by Amazon * initiate and modify this environment, * save this environment In a subsequent post, I will describe how to: * setup persistent storage of the NW and DB2 installation, including database logging, * setup an environment suitable for using standard SAP and AWS functionality to support sustained (i.e. 24x7) operation of the SAP system * and finally, be able to (relatively painlessly) stop and start the SAP system and / or server without losss of persistent data. Martin English Emerging Technologies, ERP, SAP NetWeaver Platform en-us 2009-06-22T07:49-08:00 text/html © Copyright 2009 SAP. All rights reserved. SAP