Martin Maruskin blog (something about SAP)

Normally by SAP BW systems a large portions of data is processed. Such a data volume normally cannot be processed by single process. Dependi...

Just a quick tip on how to find out what are user(s) having particular role assigned in the SAP system. Normally this can be done via t-code...

Concept of dummy for an SAP BW system is sometimes required in case of large BW installations. The case is that there is not only connected ...

SAP BW InA stands for Information Access Protocol or Info Access Service or Info Access Interface . It is an SAP internal proprietary prot...

There are many information on the web about different flavors of SAP BPC - Business Planning and Consolidation solution. I wanted to summar...

I faced recently a situation when it was not possible to change package size of DTP. I entered the DTP in edit mode but field change package...

As per SAP's " BI Convergence Strategy 2018 " there is an edition of  SAP Analysis for Microsoft Office (AfO) that works with...

Planning application like APO, BPC, IP etc. are using special data load request type. Normally planning data is stored under one Request ID ...

All BPC Packages during they run time they are executed by SAP Job in SAP BW backend system. Sometime it is useful to have a look at thes...

Real-time cubes in SAP BW means that it is a planning cube where the planning functions can be implemented. This in short means a user’s ca...

There can be multiple issues popping up while connecting SAP BW to UD Connect based source systems like MSSQL. Within this blog post, I list...

Codes of SAP icons are used in ABAP report in some cases. For example of here a dynpro having some icons assigned to particular data rows in...

Sometime it is needed to find out when some APDs were running, who ran them and so on. In case the APD name is known, it is easy. One just n...

APD processes have an option of processing all data in memory. This means that data of the APD is stored entirety in main memory while proce...

Running BEx Query Designer (QD) directly from BI front-end tool is very common case especially when the QD opened directly the query, which ...

Update : for the latest versions of SAP BW (7.5+) or BW4/HANA use dedicated APIs to work with aDSO object, See blogpost here: How to read/wr...

In case time of SAP server and server where SAP runs is not coordinated, there is an ABAP ZDATE_ILLEGAL_LOCTIME dump like below: Catego...