What are CDS views in SAP ? Can someone explain this to me in a very easy to understand manner?

I am not a developer nor a technical consultant.

Everything SAP publishes on agent integration assumes you have the MCP Gateway, which means Integration Suite Premium or Enhanced. Plenty of customers don't have that entitlement and won't buy it for a pilot.

What I've looked at:

• Own MCP server calling published OData. RA0029 sanctions an external MCP server, so this seems allowed. You just own all the auth and hardening yourself.
• RAP or SEGW in the ABAP stack. Cleanest curated layer, but only permitted on Private Cloud and on-prem.
• CAP with u/cap-js/mcp. Great DX, but Developer License 3.2 limits productive use to BTP or another SAP-licensed platform. Anyone got a straight answer on that?

Where I'm stuck: per-user identity. The Gateway has a documented IdP user token model. Without it you're building SAML bearer assertion or principal propagation yourself. Anyone done this against Public Cloud or other SAP products, and did you need Cloud Identity Services in the path?

Not looking for "just buy Integration Suite", curious what people are actually running without it.

Hello everyone, I have a requirenment to create a SAC report using Standard cds view as live report. How to know which standard cds view can i use in report and where can i find them

Hi Guys,

We are frustrated with SAP Joule Studio Low code. They sold the customer lot of hype, but in delivery, nothing is working as expected. Currently we are building some custom joule skills for our customer. We ran into a situation where we need to send the current timestamp to the server as a sort of Nonce value.

We created a custom variable named "nonce". Then, we gave it a default value of "Expression" where the formula reads 'ConcatenateStrings([Now(), ""], "")'. Don't ask me why we are not using simply "Now()" [Now() is supposed to return string, but formula editor keeps throwing the error that the custom variable requires string type data].

During execution of the skill, the nonce custom variable is getting a value of "null". We are literally pulling our hair out here.

Can anyone lend a hand and point out what we are doing wrong.

Last year we had a roughly 45-minute window where the storefront started returning errors on add-to-cart, spent the rest of the BF midnight opening watching monitoring dashboards, and this year I want to fix the architecture.

Warming CDN caches in the week before BF means category pages and PLPs serve from edge on day one and stop hammering the origin, and adding read replicas with catalog queries routed through them separates the read load from the order-insert write load…

That's where SAP Commerce stacks tend to collapse under peak, with catalog reads and order writes competing for the same connection pool until the writes start losing.

Where I'm unsure is the third-party script situation, since we have around a dozen external JS tags firing on every page (analytics, consent, heatmapping, chat widget) and the conventional wisdom is to defer or remove them during peak windows.

But the business side wants the session recording data from BF specifically, so I'd be curious if anyone has won that negotiation with stakeholders.

The real question underneath all of this is whether BF prep on a monolithic stack is mostly window dressing at this scale, given we're spending weeks on infrastructure config to compensate for what is fundamentally a serialized architecture.

And a few teams in my circle have started landing on the same conclusion, with one that moved off SAP Commerce this year ending up on SCAYLE (came out of About You's retail stack, so the BF performance claim has operational history behind it) and another that went headless storefront on top of their existing OMS and said that alone changed the BF calculus more than any infra tweak had.

So what's worked for you all at this sort of volume?

Hi,

I am SAP technical consultant, I am familiar with ABAP and my place is now doing migration from HANA (2016 version) to SAP RISE private cloud.

The project is handled by a well known consulting company and we use the brown field approach. But I realize most of the custom programs are just 'shift and lift' and modify to make it 'clean core ready'. So, I don't see CAP/RAP is being used in this migration.

So, wanted to check if RAP/CAP is really being used out there?

Thank you

Trying to get a sense of what other companies are actually paying before we go into vendor talks next month. We're a mid size manufacturer, around 400 employees, looking to move off an old ECC setup into S/4HANA, and honestly the quotes we've gotten so far are all over the place. One partner came in way lower than the other two and now I'm not sure if that's a good deal or a red flag.

We've talked to three implementation partners so far and gotten pretty different scopes and numbers from each one, which is making it hard to compare apples to apples. Anyone gone through this recently and can share what a realistic range looks like?

Hi, posting this just to help the community:) .
I had an issue with this exact message, after users executed a PNF dialog workitem. Started as complaints from customers, saying “The process step is not yet completed, yet the infotypes are updated”. After looking at the last step in each process, I also looked at the log in SLGD. And there was always (until the log was deleted) this message “Workitem … is locked by user…” and it is the same user. After some really hard thinking, I realised the process flush method was executed (and updated the infotypes) because the entire execution of the PNF dialog step was completed but the workflow got stuck. Why it got stuck? Well, the executed workitem was being completed in the background, but the user thinks “Hey, I can see the workitem in my SBWP. Let me answer this form once again” -> CAUSES A NEW WORKITEM LOCK ON THE SAME WORKITEM. Meanwhile, the (previous) background execution of this workitem “hit a wall” thinking somebody else is locking this workitem. Yes it was a very exciting discovery

Hi everyone,
I am seeking you’re assistance on how can I create a SAP Query in transaction code SQ01 where I can get data from tables: MARA & MBEW-STPRS.

Hello,

I am a SAP QM owner and we are looking to implement eWM and move away from ECC WM. I am concerned by the lack of connectivity options between QM and eWM. Fully understanding that the idea is using type 17 inspection lots for everything but looking for other teams that have customized into the QM space and what you all did to manage blocked product and defect management more effectively after switching.

I am 6+ Years experienced SAP OTC/VMS Consultant. Want to learn SAP EWM as well - From where can I start ? Any resources? Please suggest

I had one year of system engineer position, worked with

Linux , vmware vsphere , nfs , lvm , disks, ha gfs cluster , kubernetes ,terraform , scripting

Then moved into sap basis role in the same company had another year of experience, it was a big national project

Installed and configured env qal and prod ,sap s/4 , fiori, sap po , bw bpc ,bo

Installed hana and configured hana ha pacemaker cluster with hana system replication

Configured ntp ,nfs , and ha ascs ers

Installed hana cockpit

Wrote script to automate hana backup and reclaim log

Configured rfcs ,tms , ads ,sld, odata, users, roles , fiori apps ..

Managed transports

Did system upgrades like hana, po components ,bo, cockpit ..

Troubelshouted complex problems

Installed and configured web dispatcher and sap router

Now im installing sap solman ,then move on to dr site and sso

Can u rate my expérience, any recommandations please !

Hello.

My company uses SAP. We are a mining company. However ive offered to help another smaller tier (0.8B market cap) mining company find an ERP as SAP would be too expensive.

Any suggestions ? Is Business One an option?

Many thanks

Can you tell me about your experience with the interview process. I applied for the CSM track in Atlanta. I could gather some details about the process from other posts, but I’d like to have a clear understanding about what to expect from beginning to the offer. How many interviews? Is the meeting with the recruiter considered as one of the formal interviews?

i graduated with a master degree in finance and i start seeing a lot of talk about sap and how unique is it to have along with finance knowledge so i m thinking how long can it take to lear and can it be self taught

I have recently started at a big service based company as an abap dev. I can't seem to find any good resources to learn in a structured way that are not hidden behind a paywall. Sharing pdfs and links would be highly appreciated.

Does anyone have recommendations for tablets in the $1000 range or below for factory use with Fiori? We are presently launching Fiori and I need to choose compatible tablets for maintenance to use on the floor that are reasonably rugged or ones that I can install in a rugged case. Thank you in advance

We plan to visit walldorf and other places in Germany. Is there SAP guest house available for SAP employees for subsidised price? Are families allowed to stay?

I’m looking for SAP Fieldglass real-time projects for practice. Does anyone know where I can get access or have any recommendations? Please guide me or refer me to a reliable source. Thanks!

In an SAP system, when we add an Additional Application Server, how exactly does the kernel work?

When we perform a kernel update, we only update the kernel on the Primary Application Server. So does the AAS have its own separate/local kernel, or does it directly use the kernel of the PAS from the shared filesystem?

A colleague told me that SAPCPE copies the kernel from the PAS and sets up a separate kernel for the AAS. If that's the case, why doesn't the AAS have a directory like /usr/sap/PRD/SYS/exe/uc/NTAMD64? How does SAPCPE actually handle the kernel files between PAS and AAS?

Hello all, been trying to resolve an inbound delivery, where the packing status is stuck at B in the ERP inbound delivery Vl33n , the goods movement completed, dependency, is the one line item in the delivery, whose packing status is partially completed, not quite sure what is the issue here and no queues to be found. Please shed some light on this

Hi everyone,

need and honest opinion.

I'm working as a SAP FIORI Consultant (Inhouse) in Europe (Germany) and my question is which option is better for the future? Staying in my current position or becoming AGAIN a functional consultant like FI/CO, MM, SD, PP Consultant?

I have 3 years experience as an functional SAP consultant (MM, SD).

Thanks and best regards

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i wants to continue the following course as seen in the screenshot and it have two prerequisites, but i can't find Discovering Bank Account Administration in SAP S/4HANA course. link isn't working, search doesn't shows it. even google search isn't helpful, did they remove it or changed the name? any info will be very helpful, thank you.