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Welcome to the SAP Project Management & Project Observations Blog

Introduction

Welcome to my SAP project management and project observations blog.  I’m Tim Cooper, an SAP FI/CO certified consultant with a lot of project management experience.  My goal with this blog isn’t to make you PMP certified or to address all and any project management issues you may have.  Instead I’m going to share some of my experiences from various projects – some good, some not so good – with the hope that you can make your project more successful.  At times I’m going write about subjects that will feel like it is project management 101, but I haven’t stopped being surprised by how often my assumptions have turned out to be incorrect and need to be reconfirmed.

I hope this blog is helpful to consultants and non-consultants: it should help you understand some of each others’ expectations and make working together a better experience for you both.

Let me know what you think, but please be civil.

How To Configure UNIX Security To Allow SAP To Share A File System With Another UNIX Application

I run into this requirement all the time at clients. My current client is implementing SAP and the development team has decided to build file based interfaces. In this particular case we are implementing interfaces between SAP and JD Edwards.

The basic requirement is as follows: SAP needs to be able to write files that JDE can read/delete and visa-versa JDE needs to write files that SAP can read/delete. Both servers are running UNIX.

High level outline of process:

  1. Define Example Landscape
  2. Create An Integration File System
  3. Export File System and Mount
  4. Example Issues / Scenarios
  5. Creating A New UNIX Group
  6. Set Integration Directory Group Ownership and Permissions
  7. Adjusting The Umask

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