SAP Easy Access

SAP Easy Access is the standard entry screen displayed after logon. Using the menu path Extras – Set start transaction you can select a transaction of your choice to be the default entry screen after logon.

You navigate through the system using a compact tree structure that you can adapt to your own specific requirements. Use the menu path Extras – Settings to change your view of the tree structure. You can use this to display technical names (transaction codes).

You can also create a Favorites list of the transactions, reports, files, and web sites you use most. You can add items to your favorites list using the Favorites menu option or by simply dragging & dropping them with the mouse, or you can manually add them by right-clicking on the favorites folder and selecting an option to add a transaction or a URL.

In addition to the standard menu, there is a user menu that contains only those transactions for which the user has authorization.

Your system administrators can also set up area menus, which allow them to add transactions for a business process (like month end closing for Finance, or running Payroll for HR). Area menus can be assigned to users or manually selected.

• Command field: You can use the command field to go to applications directly by entering the transaction code. You can find the transaction code either in the SAP Easy Access menu tree (see next screen shot) or in the relevant application under System Status.

•  Menu bar: The menus shown here depend on which application you are working in. These menus contain cascading menu options.

• Standard toolbar: The icons in the system function bar are available on all SAP screens. Any icons that you cannot use on a particular screen are dimmed. If you leave the cursor on an icon for a moment, a small flag will appear with the name (or function) of that icon. You will also see the corresponding function key. The application toolbar shows you which functions are available in the current application.

• Title bar: The title bar displays your current position and activity in the system.
• Check boxes: Checkboxes allow you to select several options simultaneously within a group.
• Radio buttons: Radio buttons allow you to select one option only.
• Status bar: The status bar displays information on the current system status; for example, warning and error messages.
• Options: You can set your font size, list colors, and so on here.

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Logging on to SAP System

Use

You use the procedure to log on to the SAP System. When you have finished using the SAP system, you must log off. You must change your password the first time you log on and at regular intervals thereafter.

Procedure

Regardless of the tasks you perform in an SAP System, you must always start up and shut down the system.

  1.  You start the SAP System by choosing the SAP Logon icon on your desktop.

  2.  You log on to the SAP system by double-clicking it on the Systems tab.

  3.  If this is your first time logging on, you must change the initial password provided by your system administrator. If this is not your first time logging on, you have to change your password in accordance with the security policies at your company.

  4.  When you are finished working with the SAP system, you log off.

SAP Logon 

Definition

The SAP Logon is a Windows program that you use to log on to SAP systems on your Windows PC. It mediates between the SAP system and the SAP GUI user interface. The SAP Logon displays a list of available SAP systems and automatically selects servers with the best current response times. You can add and remove items in the list of systems.

Use

Use SAP Logon to log on to SAP systems. Use the defined entries on the Systems tab to start an SAP system. Use this tab to log on to a specific application server or to log on to a group to select the application server with the best response time automatically. Use the defined entries on the Shortcuts tab to start SAP transactions, run reports, or execute system commands directly.

Structure

Systems Tab

On this tab you can log on to an SAP system in the following ways:

●  Log on by double-clicking an entry in the system list

●  Log on to a system without adding it to the list of system entries

On this tab you can maintain entries by:

●  Adding entries to the list of systems using group or server selection

●  Making user-defined connections to SAP systems

●  Deleting entries

●  Editing already existing entries in the system list

Shortcut tab

On this tab you can directly execute:

●  Transactions

●  Reports

●  System commands

On this tab you can also add, delete, or edit SAP shortcut entries.

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The System Log

The SAP System logs all system errors, warnings, user locks due to failed logon attempts from known users, and process messages in the system log. There are to two different types of logs created by the system log:

·  Local Logs

·  Central Logs

Use transaction SM21 to access the system log output screen. With this transaction, you can read any of the messages that are contained in the system logs. You can modify the view to meet your needs.

Local Logs

Each SAP System application server has a local log that receives all the messages output by this server. The system log records these messages in a circular file on the server. When this log file reaches the maximum permissible length, the system log overwrites it, starting over from the beginning. (The location of the local log is specified in the rslg/local/file profile parameter.)

Central Logs

We recommend that you also maintain a central log file on a selected application server. Each individual application server then sends its local log messages to this server. The server that you designate to maintain the central log collects the messages from the other application servers and writes these messages to the central log.

The central log consists of two files: the active file and the old file. (The location of the active file is specified in the rslg/central/fileprofile parameter; the location of the old file is specified in the rslg/central/old_file.)

The active file contains the current log. When it reaches the maximum size, the system performs a "log file switch". It deletes the old log file, makes the previously active file the “old” file, and creates a new active file. The switch occurs when the size of the active log file is half the value as specified in the rslg/max_diskspace/central parameter. (Note: the SAP System does not support the saving of old system log files. If you want to save old logs, then you must archive them yourself.)