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It Is A Great Work

2010-07-16T21:26:04.140-07:00

It Is A Great Work

Brilliant Ram!

2010-06-21T12:59:51.531-07:00

Brilliant Ram!

It works great. After activating ST I decided to a...

2010-06-17T11:46:46.013-07:00

It works great. After activating ST I decided to add another field in my structure. I have activated the structure and the table type.

How to reflect the new field in my ST?

very brilliant and useful piece of code

2010-06-15T05:00:00.550-07:00

very brilliant and useful piece of code

Hi Ram, Chaith here. That's a very nice thought...

2010-04-23T06:03:26.008-07:00

Hi Ram,

Chaith here.
That's a very nice thought about women's career.

For some time now I have been wondering about using AGILE Software model in SAP Implementation projects.
Could you please throw some of your thoughts on this?

Thanks,
Chaith.

Thanks so much, Ram - I just now read your respons...

2010-03-26T14:48:40.051-07:00

Thanks so much, Ram - I just now read your response to my question and yes, it seems like I am already following your suggestions with regards to updating my skills.

I will definitely build my online and offline Network as your suggested and hope that will enable me to start again in my SAP career.

Thanks once again!

LOL! It's like the Eye of Horus, you'll never get ...

2010-03-24T03:28:15.305-07:00

LOL! It's like the Eye of Horus, you'll never get the full part! Series aside, the proposal is a receipt for disaster :D

hi, in the xslt_tool i could not find the magic ...

2010-03-15T22:17:23.725-07:00

hi,

in the xslt_tool i could not find the magic stick. I am getting a dump ST_MATCH_FAIL. I have written ST program similar to the one that you mentioned here. I am getting connected to 'http://209.162.186.60/globalweather.asmx /GetCitiesByCountry?CountryName='

how to proceed

Beautiful blog...this is what exactly i was lookin...

2010-02-23T09:20:26.991-08:00

Beautiful blog...this is what exactly i was looking for .......

Hi, good job with this blog :) Keep it up BTW - ...

2010-01-12T11:33:21.596-08:00

Hi, good job with this blog :)
Keep it up

BTW - ABAP/4 in 21 Days - link is not working

Thanks for your comments. And I hope you are not ...

2009-10-10T17:11:01.647-07:00

Thanks for your comments.
And I hope you are not my wife :) Because just a few days back we discussed this topic with similar arguments but I eventually managed to explain that her interpretation is incorrect.
Actually, I don't think any philosophy can really be that simple. Even Ayn Rand's philosophy is wrongly interpreted.

***At the end of day it involves kicking the weaker to the streets***

No that's not the philosophy of Ayn Rand. it's about to model yourself to be a hero in your chosen field and respect others who are sharing the burden.

However, it does condemn those who act more like parasites [ The philosophy as per that "It's a moral duty of Intelligent and intellectuals to serve the idiots". ] Also, I don't know what made you think that Ayn Rand's philosophy is in action and that too in a so called socialist India.

***Ayn Rand's ojbectivism appeals mainly to young people searching and the already rich. ***

I've seen this as an argument on many discussions. Who did this survey by the way? Because I think it might just be right.

Remember when in a corporate environment, we answer to a new joiner...."it's a good idea, even I thought of this before..but you know what ..it does not work". Not that it's a bad idea but it's hard to change the way corporate environment works..and then you mention several problems..the problem which were there with you for so long, you are now suffering from 'Stockholm syndrome'.

Thanks for your comment again,
Ram

Ayn Rand's philosphy is too simplistic for me. At...

2009-10-07T08:05:07.379-07:00

Ayn Rand's philosphy is too simplistic for me. At the end of day it involves kicking the weaker to the streets. The best examples to me of such ideas in action are India (cheap labor ueber alles) or the U.S. (keep the "coloreds" down).

Ayn Rand's ojbectivism appeals mainly to young people searching and the already rich. Life is complicated not simple. You allude to that when describing how programming is mostly simple, i.e. wrong or right. I said that to someone a bit differently - "it is too bad we cannot read people's intentions like a file system."

Thanks for sharing some of your code and thoughts.

Very nice, and very informative. I really enjoy y...

2009-09-01T04:35:54.976-07:00

Very nice, and very informative. I really enjoy your use of the new classes and methods.

Thanks for the lesson!

Great metaphore.

2009-08-18T15:12:42.939-07:00

Great metaphore.

Excellent explanation...I was googling to know XML...

2009-08-08T03:53:09.762-07:00

Excellent explanation...I was googling to know XML in SAP ABAP. This article clarified my doubts. Keep writing all the good stuff.

Regards,

I like the fact that its straight forward to follo...

2009-06-17T04:39:21.059-07:00

I like the fact that its straight forward to follow and even though you did put in bold red "Always use 'SAVE' before adding" - some of us forget! lol

Not to mention there are some nice blog series on ...

2009-03-30T11:46:00.000-07:00

Not to mention there are some nice blog series on SDN for the beginners in ABAP OO, ABAP WebDynpro, Web Services etc.
e.g. here is a link for one of the nice blog series.
ABAP Trial Version for Newbies : https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/6098

Hi Enniss,I've not read these books but other cons...

2009-03-30T11:40:00.000-07:00

Hi Enniss,

I've not read these books but other consultants have given good reviews to the books below:

- ABAP Objects by Horst Keller
- Next Generation ABAP Development by Rich Heilman & Thomas Jung [ I guess this will require some basic ABAP understanding ]

ABAP/4 in 21 days is a very nice book to understand the basics of the ABAP procedural programming, data types, DDIC , functions etc. It does not contain the advance and OO part but I would still recommend the book to a beginner.

Thanks,
Ram

Are there any other GOOD beginner books on ABAP th...

2009-03-30T10:12:00.000-07:00

Are there any other GOOD beginner books on ABAP that are current? The "teach yourself ABAP in 21 days" book is out of print, the ones I have studied are way out of date.

Hi ram u ave indicated the role of an abaper. It r...

2009-03-25T04:42:00.000-07:00

Hi ram u ave indicated the role of an abaper. It
really understandable.
Regards
arvind

I think class cl_abap_browser is available in ABA...

2009-02-25T09:05:00.000-08:00

I think class cl_abap_browser is available in ABAP Release 7.1 and not in ABAP 7.0

you can use function SCOL_TRACE_SHOW_XML to show t...

2009-02-25T09:02:00.000-08:00

you can use function SCOL_TRACE_SHOW_XML to show the xml on screen as an alternative. Also, displaying the xml on the screen is generally for test purpose only.

Hello,I am studying a couple of blogs, documentati...

2009-02-25T08:44:00.000-08:00

Hello,
I am studying a couple of blogs, documentations in this topic. All the examples mention this cl_abap_browser class, which doesn't exist in our ECC 6.0 system. Please tell us more information about this class. Thank you.
Best regards,
Laszlo.

Thanks Sandra for sharing your experience. I guess...

2009-01-10T10:55:00.000-08:00

Thanks Sandra for sharing your experience. I guess the namespace for custom developments by SAP or 3rd party vandors starts with char '/'.

But you are right about making sure if the development is provided by 3rd party partner or SAP consulting ( so not sap standard ).

For Ref - OSS Note 84282 - Development namespaces for customers and partners

Hi Ram,I'd like to share a recent experience I had...

2009-01-10T01:45:00.000-08:00

Hi Ram,

I'd like to share a recent experience I had, about custom development done by SAP consulting.

I recently posted an oss message about a dump in a standard BAPI when an input parameter did not exist in database (it was in ECC6/nw7.0), and I was very surprised by SAP answer (first time it happens since 8 years I develop and post OSS messages!)

There was a misunderstanding between sap and me for several weeks, because I was thinking the BAPI was fully standard (I had debugged everything and I had even corrected the problem and communicated that to sap), and sap answered to me that it wasn't a bug because our custom program had to pass correct values to BAPI !? Of course their answer was not correct, and they were not fair about that because they continued to say that during several weeks, without argumenting, and I (stupidly) wasted time to find proofs in BAPI official documentation that BAPIs have to control input values, and that dump should never considered as "work as designed" (it's why they told me).

Finally (a little bit late!), they told me that the bug was in a part of the program developed by sap consulting in our project : in fact, we have big parts of custom development done by sap, some that will be integrated later into the standard, some that will remain custom.

But technically speaking, we can't make the difference as sap consulting use SAP namespace (neither Z* nor Y*) for objects. Even our consulting people did not remember that this part of code was done by sap.

So, I apologized and closed the oss message, and kept my custom correction on sap consulting code.

Conclusion is that when there is SAP consulting on your project, find a method how to differentiate their code from SAP standard code to avoid wasting weeks and energy!

Regards,
sandra rossi (my name on sdn)

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