I think what Carl is trying to say - and I completely agree - is that the information required to complete even simple tasks is quite difficult to locate, even if the task itself is not so difficult. If you take the installation manual for example. There are more headers and links and references and prerequisites and next steps and all than there is real information.
I know that this is a bit off topic, but I've been trying to install the DBI::ODBC interface for Perl using SAP DBs ODBC library for the last two days, and had to go through the docs at 15 different places to finally get it working. This section of the docs could definitely be improved! To make it worse in the docs at http://www.sapdb.org/sap_db_program.htm and in the ODBC Manual it says:
But SAP DB obviously expects the file at /usr/spool/sql/ini/odbc.ini !!! The driver managers that you are supposed to use need /etc/odbc.ini by default. All this I found out by trial and error more or less.Create the file /var/spool/sql/ini/odbc.ini and define the data source names in it
The next problem I have is that the users I create with the Database Manager GUI have no right to create tables or even to select from existing tables, and I have found no way to grant the rights using the GUI. So I guess I'll have to read the docs, but which ones? The "User Manual", the "Database Manager GUI", the "Database Manager CLI" or the "Reference Manual" ??? Can someone give me a hint please.
The problem is not that there are no docs. The problem is that there are too many and too confusing. And that doesn't help, if your not really sure where to start in the first place.
Anyway, it's comforting to see that other people have the same kind of problems which means that I am probably not as dumb as I think sometimes.
Cheers,
Arne
Hi,
I am really looking for information that allows me to set a basic SAP system
up. I have a pc and a server and I just want to get it going so that I can
discover it more fully. This kind of information does not seem easily
available, would you be able to help?
Ps I mean from running the .EXE file to getting communication after password
has been entered (that kind of info)
Regards
carl
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