Is this Course Right for Me?
What is Delivered in this Course?
- A guided step-by-step walkthrough to install the MiniSAP Developer Edition on your personal computer; in an OpenSUSE Linux guest operating system as a VirtualBox virtual machine. Using …
SAP NetWeaver AS ABAP 7.52 SP04 (ABAP Stack) (Not HANA) - Progress Tracker covering each step, especially when life gets in the way.
- Limited support available through the chatbox and sequent email followup.
Outcome
- A working MiniSAP NetWeaver ABAP Stack system on your personal computer.
- A renewable developer license, for free from the SAP Community.
- Ability to experience ABAP development.
- Ability to experience Business Warehouse (BW) data modelling.
- Ability to experience SAPUI5 development.
- Ability to explore, configure, build, debug, break and fix with absolute freedom.
Who Will Benefit?
- For ABAP, BW and UI5 developers.
- For Basis & Support personnel.
- Any anyone curious enough to dig into the ‘SAP ABAP Stack’ technology (Not HANA).
Benefits
- A functional SAP Business Warehouse (BW) server.
- A broader BW Developer experience than your current job limits.
- You can create awesome solutions from the comfort of home; making shoes optional.
- Mobility. Take it anywhere a personal computer can go.
- No uptime cost, saving ‘a few dollars per hour’, that does add-up as the months go by.
- Instructions to create and leverage an official SAP Community user account (Free to Signup), that will grant access to:
- The official SAP Community and an SAP User Profile to make connecting with others easier.
- Free SAP Trials and Developer Editions for download.
- 1000’s of like-minded developers who are already walking the pathway of experience to improve their position.
- Free SAP Blogs and Articles, created by fellow enthusiasts.
- Free SAP Questions & Answers community.
Tip: The SAP Community service offerings are not affiliated in any way, shape or form with this course offering. However, you will need them to download the MiniSAP Developer Edition installation files and occasionally renew the license key.
Pre-requisite Expectations
This is a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) course. Your personal laptop or personal desktop computer is used to do the installation and enjoy the everyday experience of learning the SAP ABAP Stack technologies.
Tip: This is not an internet-based cloud-hosted experience.
Administrator Access is required in the personal computers core operating system, to install the virtual machine. If you don’t have administrator access then ask someone who is, to install the virtual machine application for you.
Tip: Only purchase this course if you are able to freely configure a virtual machine instance on the computer.
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Your computer can be running any of these 64-bit operating systems for the course to succeed.
- Apple Mac OSX (64-bit)
- OSX 11 (Big Sur)(Recommended)
- OSX 10.15 (Catalina)
- OSX 10.14 (Mojave)
- OSX 10.13 (High Sierra)
- Linux Distributions (64-bit)
- Linux Mint 19.x (Preferred)
- OpenSUSE 15.1 (Leap)
- Ubuntu 18.x LTS and 19.x
- Debian GNU/Linux 9 (Stretch) and 10 (Buster)
- Oracle Linux 6, 7 and 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, 7 and 8
- Fedora 30 and 31
- Gentoo Linux
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 and 15
- Microsoft Windows (64-bit)
- Windows 7 (Preferred)
- Windows 8.1
- Windows 10 (Discouraged)
- Windows Server 2012
- Windows Server 2016
- Windows Server 2019
What is Not in the Course?
- No, this course will not provide a personal computer to use.
- No support for the host operating system on the personal computer.
- No support to optimise the Virtual Machine (VM) instances running on the personal computer.
- Yes, there is a configuration recommendation provided; its the one I used to create this course.
- No support for any of the services offered through the official SAP Community Network. Use their services and play by their rules.
- No cost saving or incentive to download the Gigabytes (GB) worth of installation software required to complete the course.
- No support for jobs that fail to execute in the application server process slots.
- No support for the ongoing housekeeping activities of a working SAP Netweaver AS installation.
- No support for user roles, profiles or passwords that suddenly stop working.
- No support for automating the renewal of the license key. It is granted to you by SAP AG, so please use their official services to renew it as part of your ongoing membership within the SAP Community.
- Yes, there is a detailed walk-through of the license key renewal process, making it easy. It will never be fun, not even in a geeky-kind-of-way.
- No support for any of the SAP Netweaver system configuration.
- No support for Unicode or multilingual hardware.
- Yes, the general SAP Community and this course have proceeded forward with ‘English’ and QWERTY keyboards; it works.
- While other languages and hardware combinations are not officially supported, the course uses clear and easy to follow step-by-step text and screenshots, so even if English is not your first language, you should still be able to follow along in your language on your native keyboard.
- No support for finding or applying any kind of system patching. This course assumes you are willing to start the journey with a brand new, minty-fresh installation of the entire technology stack.
- No support for any of the ABAP code, BW data models or UI5 applications you build as part of the MiniSAP developer experience.
Yes, this course will guide you through the process of creating a brand new, minty-fresh installation of ‘SAP NetWeaver AS ABAP Developer Edition 7.52 SP04′ on a personal computer.
“Where we go from here, is a choice I leave to you …”
Disclaimer: This course is for informational purposes only. Use at your own risk.
