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Consuming CDS View Entities Using ODBC-Based Client Tools

Consuming CDS View Entities Using ODBC-Based Client Tools

In this blog post, we would like to show you how you can access CDS view entities in an ABAP system using SQL via ODBC. Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) is a standard API for accessing databases. Why an ODBC Driver for ABAP? There are situations where you would like to have external SQL read access to CDS objects owned by the ABAP system. Direct SQL read access to the underlying SAP HANA…

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Zchat – ABAP based instant messaging

Zchat – ABAP based instant messaging

We usually connect to the client system using various combinations of Remote Desktop. For security reasons, the clipboard between Remote Desktop and the work computer is disabled. Also, we usually don’t have any Instant Messaging or even mail. http://www.sapspot.com/sap-abap-7-5-certification/ Lack of communication turns ordinary actions (copy, past, send) into a whole quest – you need to call,…

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Calling custom developed Adobe Form from standard Transaction Code for Print Output in SAP ABAP

Calling custom developed Adobe Form from standard Transaction Code for Print Output in SAP ABAP

Introduction: Adobe Forms are used frequently in SAP to generate Portable Document Format(PDF) files of various business documents like Invoices, Order Confirmations, Account Statements etc. PDF files have got below advantages over other file formats.

It is an Open Standard Universal File Format that ensures its appearance same independent of application and platform used to create it or…

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Connect from AS ABAP to Google Cloud Platform App-Engine resource secured with Google Identity-Aware Proxy

Connect from AS ABAP to Google Cloud Platform App-Engine resource secured with Google Identity-Aware Proxy

1. Introduction

In our recent project we had the requirement to connect from an AS ABAP system to an API published on Google Cloud Platform App Engine. The API was secured through Googles Identity Aware Proxy (IAP) and Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM) service accounts for authentication to prevent unauthorized use.

This blog describes how to solve the problem on ABAP side to…

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ABAP to JSON with Custom Transformation

ABAP to JSON with Custom Transformation

Introduction:

ABAP to JSON conversion is very common requirement now-a-days. This can be done easily using the standard class “/UI2/CL_JSON”. This is the best way to convert ABAP to JSON. There are already couples of blog post already there. Below are the few links:-

Problem Statement:

As mentioned already, “/UI2/CL_JSON” class is really handy and probably the best way to deal with “ABAP…

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Creation of Odata services for beginners

Creation of Odata services for beginners

There are plenty of articles on the internet about the creation of Odata Services.

But when I started learning to create Odata services I faced a lot of challenges,

so I decided to start this blog post so that I can pass on the information which I collected through my experiment.

In this series of Odata and UI5 blog posts I will be sharing my development experiences, challenges and…

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How to create an openApi Rest Service from an oData v4 Rest Service with SAP Netweaver ABAP

How to create an openApi Rest Service from an oData v4 Rest Service with SAP Netweaver ABAP

Motivation and Introduction:

Rest Services are very popular and widely used. But Rest is only a programming paradigm and or an architectural approach as such it doesn’t set up any contract how services are offered, and which format the payload will have finally.

To address this contract there are a lot of service descriptions available meanwhile. You can have a look on how many there are at

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How to guide – Connectivity Setup with ABAP and SAP Cloud Connector

How to guide – Connectivity Setup with ABAP and SAP Cloud Connector

Overview

This how-to guide describes an end-to-end scenario to consume backend data coming from an Netweaver AS ABAP system which is exposing a products catalog via an OData service. The approach of the blog is to provide intuitive guidance with the SAP Cloud Platform Connectivity Service and the SAP Cloud Connector.

Big Picture Scenario

SAP Cloud Connector Configurations

Assuming there…

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