Transport Error – Transport Control Program tp ended with error code 0247

This article answers the following queries:

·         How to resolve the transport error “Transport Control Program tp ended with error code 0247?

·         How to resolve the transport error – Errors: addtobuffer has problems with data- and/or cofile?

·         How to resolve transport issue  encountered while adding a transport to import queue of target system?

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Sometimes, while you are adding a transport request into import queue of target system as shown below, you might encounter error as

 “Transport Control Program tp ended with error code 0247 "?

Errors: addtobuffer has problems with data- and/or cofile? (Please refer screenshot 3)

After pressing Yes in the above screen, you may encounter below error:

Most probable reasons for this issue could be, due to transport did not get released from the source system.

Please login to the source system of the transport and goto transaction SE01 and provide the transport number as shown below and click on display pushbutton to view the release status of the transport

In the below screen, please drill down the transport and check whether all the transports under this are released ( if there is tick mark after the transport, it means it was released).

If there is no tick mark on any of the  transports below the given transport number it means the transport is not yet released. In those cases, you can even view truck symbol in the active state.

In the above screenshot, all the underlying transports were released(as there is tick mark after those transports), but the main transport is not yet released as indicated my active status of the truck. In these cases, just keep the cursor on the main transport number and click on truck symbol to release the transport.

Please note that you can release the transport only if you have access to do the same. If basis administrator do not have access, he/she should approach the respective team and get this transport released as per the process mentioned above.

Please find below another scenario, in which 2 of the 3 child requests not released. In this case, each of the individual transport to be selected and released (by clicking truck button) and finally release the main transport.

Once the main transport is released, data file and  cofiles will be generated for that transport request in the source system. Then no longer, the error mentioned above will be encountered will adding the transport request to import queue of the target system as the request was released and data and cofiles were also generated under /usr/sap/trans/data and /usr/sap/trans/cofiles directories of the system.

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New License Options for Hosted Barcode Generators

by Nate Schubert

One of the most cutting-edge barcode generation technologies of today exists in the cloud, as a hosted barcode generation service that allows users to display barcode images on web pages, in databases or anywhere else, as long as the application is connected to the internet. Hosted services such as the dynamic barcode generator subscription that IDAutomation provides results in less of a load on customer servers, especially in high-volume dynamic barcode generation for websites related to ticketing, purchasing and coupon generation.

Until recently, IDAutomation has offered the dynamic barcode generator service to subscribers in 1-year increments, and for a variety of scenarios. We have trimmed these license options down and you can read more about those below:

• 1 Developer SaaS License: allows one developer to integrate the service into a process in addition to up to 10,000 unique users per week.
• 5 Developer SaaS License: allows between 2 and 5 developers to integrate the service into a process as well as up to 20,000 unique users per week.
• Unlimited Developer SaaS License: allows unlimited developers for service integration as well as unlimited unique users per week.

The first thing to determine when deciding on the right license option is how many developers you plan to have working to integrate the hosted dynamic barcode image generator service into your process. Secondly, and perhaps most importantly, come up with an approximation as to how many unique users there will be to your service per week. To figure this number out, just estimate how many individual users will be accessing the web page or database and displaying a barcode. The same user can access a page several times within the week, and will still be considered one unique user. If this number exceeds 10,000 but is lower than 20,000, then the 5 Developer SaaS License will be the right choice. If your unique users per week exceeds 20,000, then it would be best to purchase the Unlimited Developer SaaS License.

Another important thing to note is that we now offer a 5-year subscription to the hosted service which eliminates the need to re-purchase your subscription on a yearly basis. This can be extremely beneficial for businesses who are confident that the service will be useful for years to come, and we expect many customers to take advantage of this new and improved license option.

Hosted services are the future of technology, both as it pertains to computers and the internet, and barcode generation is no different. 

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How to Generate GS1-128 Barcode Labels

by Nate Schubert

GS1-128, formerly known as UCC/EAN-128, is a type of barcode standard that was designed to bring businesses together into one global standard by allowing application identifiers that define the data encoded in a barcode. The GS1-128 standard may only be met through the creation of a Code 128 barcode which fits the parameters specific to GS1-128. There are a wide variety of application identifiers that can be applied to a GS1-128 barcode, and including this type of information can ease the process of communication between companies, thereby fostering an environment of increased efficiency and smoother operation.

This video tutorial demonstrates how to generate a GS1-128 barcode with the IDAutomation Barcode Label Software for printing onto labels of virtually any dimension or stock. This label design application can also draw specific information from various database environments for automatic printing. Check out our video demonstration below and let us know if you have any questions or comments, as we're always looking for new ways to help.

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New: Barcode Studio Creates Mobile Tagging QR-Codes with Shortened URLs

Data List with Shortened URLs

Version 12 of TEC-IT's barcode maker software will be released shortly. This post introduces the built-in URL shortener capabilities of the Barcode Studio update.

The new URL shortening feature provides 3 main benefits:

• Dramatically Reduced QR-Code Size
  URL shortening means squeezing a long URL into a shorter one. This is important when creating mobile tagging QR-Codes for vCards, meCards, SPARQcodes, etc. With URL shortening you reduce the amount of data to be encoded. Smaller, better readable, easier-to-share QR-Codes are the result.
• Free QR-Code Traceability
  URL shortening providers like Google (http://goo.gl) and Bitly (http://bit.ly) offer simple and free tracking features. More on this below.



Data Import Assistant

• Batch URL Shortening
  The data import assistant of Barcode Studio is able to shorten thousands of URLs with a single click.

Shortened URLs

You are not familiar with shortened URLs? Let me give you an example: A typical URL looks like this:

http://www.tec-it.com/software/barcode-software/barcode-creator/barcode-studio/Default.aspx

In total this example URL requires 91 characters. By shortening this URL you will get the following results:

• http://goo.gl/fnBby
  (when shortened with Google's URL shortener service http://goo.gl)
• http://bit.ly/c1ZTRO
  (when shortened with http://bit.ly)

The shortened URL requires only 19 (or 20) characters and still points to the same target URL. Just try it out by clicking on them!

QR-Code Tracking

A shortened URLs provide an easy way to analyze the usage of the codes. Whenever a shortened URL is used to visit a web-page the shortening provider tracks this event. It does not matter if the user scanned the code with a smart phone, simply clicked on it in a twitter status message or entered the shortened URL manually into the address bar of the browser. At the time being both providers offer publicly visible tracking statistics for free.

For Google's shortener service you get the tracking statistics by simply adding ".info" to the shortened URL: http://goo.gl/fnBby.info. When using Bitly just add the plus sign: http://bit.ly/c1ZTRO+

Privacy notice: Take care - the tracking statistics are usually publicly visible to everyone!

Free Release Candidate Downloads

A free pre-release is available for Barcode Studio on Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. Check it out!

Download Barcode Studio for Microsoft Windows

Download Barcode Studio for Mac OS X

About TEC-IT

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TEC-IT Datenverarbeitung GmbH provides high quality software in the areas of bar-coding, barcode extensions for ERP systems, label and form printing, reporting and automated data acquisition. TEC-IT products are available for all major platforms, thus customers benefit from complete and versatile software solutions for all possible requirements. The company is located in Austria / Europe and can be reached via www.tec-it.com.
All trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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How to open Config tool ?

This article answers the following queries:

ü  How to open config tool in SAP (for offline configuration) ?

ü  What is the process to be followed to access config tool in SAP ?

ü  How to open config tool in Microsoft windows environment?

ü  How to open config tool in  Unix (AIX , HP-UX etc) environment?

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Config tool is mainly used to set JVM parameters in SAP.

In this article, am covering on how to open config tool (with screenshots)  in Microsoft windows environment :

Goto respective drive and navigate as follows

usr  -> sap  ->  <SID>  -> DVEBMGS**  ->  j2ee  ->  configtool    (shown in below figure)

and double click on configtool.bat file.

This run a batch file and opens up another screen as follows and prompts you to confirm whether you want to use default DB settings.

Click on Yes and confirm the same.

This opens up  config tool, where various parameters can be viewed/maintained

 

Procedure of opening config tool  in Unix is same as above.

i)              To be navigated to /usr/sap/<SID>/DVEBM*/J2ee/Configtool

ii)            Execute ./configtool.sh script

This opens up the config tool as above.

Note : Only difference is here, script need to be run instead of a bat file in windows.

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CCMS – Availability and Performance Overview in SAP

This article answers the following queries:

• How to check system availability in SAP using RZ20?
• What is the use of CCMS – Availability and Perform Overview ?

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If your landscape is very big and contains more than 50 servers, it would be tough to manually monitor all those systems. So, it is better to get CCMS configured in Solman system and all other satellite systems that are to be monitored to be connected to that.

If in your landscape, CCMS monitoring is configured properly in Solution manager, then you can configure receipt of CCMS alerts in case of any non-availability/performance issue of any SAP system based on the thresholds set.

However, those alerts are not descriptive enough to understand the issue. To troubleshoot the issue and to figure out the exact issue, you will need to follow the below process:

Goto RZ20 transaction of Solution manager and navigate to  “SAP CCMS Monitor Templates” as shown below

As highlighted above, please click on “Availability and Performance Overview” to proceed to below screen :

You will have 2 nodes as shown in the above figure :

ü  Availability

ü  GRMG-Tested Availability

Drill down in both of these nodes and figure out if any sub-node (i.e. SAP system) is in red color. It means that there is some issue with that system.

Please find screenshot below :

We can further drill down these red systems to understand the issue in detail.

If you are able to capture SID of the affected system from the CCMS alert, then you can directly go to that respective SID in the above screen and drill that node down to figure out the issue as shown above.

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How to view OSS messages based on their various criteria?

This article answers the following queries:

a)    How can we  check OSS messages   owned by us?

b)    How to check OSS messages of other users ?

c)     How to spool a report on the oss messages created between any 2 intervals?

d)    How to view all Oss messages based on their status for any given period?

e)    How to export Oss messages list to an excel?

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How to check Oss messages owned by us

Login to Service Market Place and navigate to  “ my Inbox” as shown below :

It displays all the customer messages that are owned by you.

(However in the example above there are no messages displayed, as I haven’t created any)

How to check Oss messages owned by others

Please select Customer Messages from the drop down of Search for (highlighted  in the above screen) and click on Go button , to proceed to the following screen

As shown in the basic search of above screen, Oss messages can be filtered and viewed based on:

• Customer Number
• Installation Number (based on particular system)
• Reporter Name ( User who has created the message)
• Status ( based on status of message)
• Create date ( based on create date interval)
• Changed within last days  (based on last change)
• Priority
• Component
• Message Number

How to spool a report on the OSS messages created between any 2 intervals

Advanced search tab will have much more options than basis search as shown below

For example : If I have to view all Oss messages, which are in Status “In Processing by SAP” and “Customer Action” and whose priority is Very high/High/Low and messages which were created between 15.09.2011 to 22.09.2011, I can select as shown in the above screen.

After selecting all these, click on Search push button which displays all the Oss messages which meets these criteria as shown below:

Click on Down All pushbutton (highlighted) in the above screen, to download these oss messages into an excel sheet for further processing/reporting

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How to identify various ports of an SAP system?

This article answers the following queries:

§  How to identify various ports of an SAP system?

§  What are the various protocols of an SAP system?

§  How to identify http and https ports of an SAP system?

§  How to identify telnet port of an SAP system?

§  How to identify P4 port of an SAP system?

§  How to open java stack if http(s) port is not known for an SAP system?

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There are various protocols that are used in an SAP system. Each of these protocols is associated with a sap port. Sometimes we need to know these ports to specify in some configurations etc. These ports of an SAP system can be found out as mentioned below:

1)    Login to SAP system ABAP stack

2)    Goto SMICM transaction

It displays screen as shown below

3)    Click the highlighted services button in the above screen, which displays the below screen

     As listed in the above screen, there will be various services running in SAP system like

·         HTTP

·         HTTPS

·         P4

·         IIOP

·         SMTP

·         TELNET

From the above screen, we can make out what are the various services running in that SAP system and the ports on which they are running.

Please find below interesting aspects of port numbers on how they were derived :

HTTP port is 50100 (It means 5<instance_ num>00)

HTTPS port is 50101  (It means 5<instance_num>01 )

Always HTTPS port ends with 1. It is nothing but HTTP port + 1

P4 port is 50104  ( It means 5<instance_num>04)

As the name indicates, P4 port always ends with 4

Telnet Port is 50108 ( It means 5<instance_num>08)

Most of the cases, telnet port ends with 8.

How to open java stack if http(s) port is not known for an SAP system?

In some cases, if you donot know the java link of a particular server,  you can figure out the same & open following below process :

1)    Goto SMICM and identify http(s) ports

2)    Identify hostname of the server

Then follow  the below convention to open nwa of  java stack

http://<hostname>:5<instance_num>00/nwa 

eg: http://sapserv12:50100/nwa

or

https://<hostname>:5<instance_num>01/nwa  

eg: https://sapserv12:50101/nwa

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How to set the PI SOAP Adapter 7.1 components trace level to debug?

This article answers the following queries

Ø  How to set the PI SOAP Adapter 7.1 components trace level to debug?

Ø  How to change the trace level of PI SOAP Adapter 7.1?

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Sometimes, to troubleshoot an issue related to SOAP Adapter, SAP might request you to change the trace level of SOAP adapter in a PI system. This is required because much more log can be captured if trace level is set to debug.

Here is the process to perform the same in the java stack of PI system.

1)    Open  NWA of java system

Eg: https://hostname :port/nwa

2)    Navigate to  Problem Management -> Logs and Traces -> Log Configuration

3)    Select show -> tracing locations

4)    Go to Tracing location  com -> sap -> aii -> adapter -> soap

5)    Set severity of this location to Debug and click “Copy to Sub tree”

6)    Go to Tracing location com -> sap -> aii -> af -> sdk -> xi

7)    Set severity of this location to Debug and click “Copy to Sub tree”

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How to create an Oss message

This article answers following queries :

Ø  How to create an Oss message in SAP?

Ø  What are the different priorities of tickets/message that can be created ?

Ø  In what cases Very high priority message to be raised?

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In real time scenarios, there might be situations, where local basis administrators could not resolve the issue. In those cases, a message can be raised to SAP so that SAP consultants can resolve the issue based on priority of the ticket.

Please follow below steps to raise an Oss message:

Step1:  Goto Service Market Place. Navigate to Help & Support ->  Report a Product Error

As shown in the above screen, there will be 4 steps to raise an Oss message.

They are

i)              Choose system (Select system on which issue to be reported )

ii)            Prepare Solution Search (Solution search can be performed here by using keywords of the issue)

iii)           Find Solution (System displays some notes which are relevant to the issue. If any of the notes suits your requirement, they can be reviewed and applied and message creation can be deferred.

iv)           Enter message ( If note of the listed notes are applicable, you can go ahead and create an Oss message)

Step 2 : Please refer below screen. Please provide SID of the system regarding which you would like to report an issue and click on search button. It displays the system details.

Click on SID, which opens up the following screen.

Step 3: In the above screen, provide the keyword of the issue and conduct a search.

System displays all the notes that are relevant to this issue as shown below

Step 4: Please review the notes listed and try if you can apply any of these to resolve your issue. If none of the notes suits, you can proceed further to create a message to SAP.

As shown in the above screen, select the Language, Component and Priority of the message.

By default English language will be selected. If you would like to change, you can do the same by selecting from the dropdown.

Afterwards, the relevant component of the SAP system for which you would like to report needs to be selected.  A click on component button, opens up screen as below from which component of the SAP system can be selected.  Please note this is very important to raise a ticket in correct component for faster resolution of issue. Otherwise, it delays because an SAP consultant will have to go through the issue and he has to in turn forward this message to correct component(In other words, to correct team – As each component will be supported by a separate expert team)

Next, priority of the message to be selected.

There are 4 types of priorities

ü  Very high

ü  High

ü  Medium

ü  Low

Depending on the priority of the issue  this  is to be selected. SAP responds to you based on the priority selected.

In case you have selected very high priority to create an Oss message, you will need to provide some extra details to SAP like Business Impact, Revenue Loss, Number of users impacted etc. In these cases, an SAP consultant will call you within 15mins to understand the issue and lowers the priority if it does not suit to Very high priority call. If they consider it as very high priority call, they start working on the issue immediately, requesting further details in case of any required.

Hence, Please note,  In case you are selecting very high priority, please make sure you have valid business reason for the same like production system is down and lots of users are unable to work and huge amount of revenue loss to the company.

Next as shown in below screen enter problem details like short text (subject of the issue) and long text (description of the issue)

Below this, any attachments related to the issue like screenshots, dump files etc can be uploaded in the Attachments section

In Contacts & Notifications section name , email id, contact number of the reporter to be provided so that SAP can contact you in case of emergencies related to this issue.

Once all these details are provided, please click on save message push button to save the Oss message. It provides an Oss message number. Please note the same. After that, please click on send message push button which actually sends the message to SAP.

Generated Oss number can be used for further correspondence with SAP.

 

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TSC To Exhibit Newest Printers At PACK EXPO

Date: 26-28 Sep. 2011
Place: Las Vegas Convention Center Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Booth: S-7302

TSC Auto ID Technology America Inc will be showing its printers at Pack Expo 2011 in Las Vegas, NV September 26-28, 2011.

Come by and see us demonstrate the new TTP-268M series of 6” wide industrial thermal label printers and get a preview of the upcoming ME240 series of affordable 4” wide industrial printers.

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