We need to keep ourselves updated to stay ahead in the race as the technical world keeps changing, and SAP is no different. If you are a Basis administrator/consultant, you need to update/upgrade your current skills for the requirements of SAP Netweaver.
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe - Abraham Lincoln
A new article on SearchSAP.com by Kent Sanders talks about transferring your skills from Basis to Netweaver. The article not only tells you the road ahead for Basis consultants but also explains how you can get to that road.
The key points raised by author are:
Java is the way ahead: As more companies are opting for portals and web business, you can not avoid Java.
Go for Solution Manager or Enterprise Service Oriented Architecture ( eSOA)
If you want to stay up with the latest in SAP technology and differentiate yourself from your Basis competition, then mastering the SAP Java Application Server, enterprise SOA technology, and Solution Manager will keep you ahead of the game.
Read complete article on SearchSAP
On a related note do check the tips from Prem Sagar about how to survive an IT slowdown.
July 4th, 2008 in
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As the pre-registration of iPhone 3G is started in India by Vodafone and Airtel, people are anxiously waiting for iPhone, a better mobile phone + iPod and in a price less than Nokia N series.
But wait before you jump to conclusion that iPhone would be available to you in Rs. 8500/- (1 USD= 42 INR approx). Kiruba has this article in which he explains why the real cost of iPhone would not be under Rs. 9000 in India.
The truth be told, Apple really isn’t slashing its cost of handsets. It’s just passing on the slashed cost to the mobile operators. Apple sells the phone to Airtel and Vodafone for a little lower than the original cost of $399, maybe for about $350 (approx Rs 15,000). While Airtel or Vodafone may sell it to you for about Rs 9,950, they will recover the loss by a slightly higher monthly charge over a two year period.
Although, there are reports that an iPhone (8 GB) costs $173 to make.
Read the complete article by Kiruba.
Want to be among first to flaunt iPhone in India. Now, existing Vodafone customers can book iPhone on Vodafone website. You can also pre-book your iPhone through SMS IPHONE to 56789. Although, site doesn’t give any information about price and plans of iPhone. Nonetheless, now you know that iPhone is coming very soon to India.
Thanks India Inc.
June 25th, 2008 in
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SAPOSCOL ( SAP OS collector ) is program which collects the Operating System information and displays the information in Operating System Monitor ( transaction ST06 ).
The operating system collector SAPOSCOL is a stand-alone program that runs in the operating system background. It runs independently of SAP instances exactly once per monitored host. SAPOSCOL collects data about operating system resources, including:
Usage of virtual and physical memory
CPU utilization
Utilization of physical disks and file systems
Resource usage of running processes
The SAPOSCOL can be stopped/started through either SAP (through Operating System Monitor or transaction code ST06 -> Detailed analysis Menu) or Operating System. However, sometimes it may happen when you try to start the SAPOSCOL it gives you the message it’s already running. Like in example below.
SIDADM> saposcol -l
***********************************************************************
* This is Saposcol Version COLL XX.XX
* Usage: saposcol -l: Start OS Collector
* saposcol -k: Stop OS Collector
* saposcol -d: OS Collector Dialog Mode
* saposcol -s: OS Collector Status
* The OS Collector (PID XXXXXX) is already running …..
************************************************************************
If you try to see the status of SAPOSCOL through command saposcol -s, you will not see the status and if you try to grep the process with command ps -ef|grep -i saposcol, it will not show the process.
So, what do we do now?
There is another parameter of SAPOSCOL which is not documented in it’s menu list and that is force option (-f).
All you need to do is start SAPOSCOL with command saposcol -f, it will start the process forcefully. Once it’s started stop the process through saposcol -k and start it normally through saposcol -l. Now, your SAPOSCOL is running and collecting the OS information for you. I have tried this on Unix and it works not sure about Windows though.
Read more about SAPOSCOL
Update: If your SAPOSCOL still doesn’t start with the above steps then follow the steps belo:
Start SAPOSCOL in dialog mode with saposcol -d option. You will get a prompt to type further command, help command can be used to see what all commands are available.
Try to kill the SAPOSCOL with kill command. After it’s killed execute command leave, this will clean shared memory ( Make sure the SAPOSCOL is not running).
Start the SAPOSCOL with command launch and quit from dialog mode.
June 24th, 2008 in
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