Request For SAP Marketplace ID (OSS ID)

I came across this method recently while trying to register for a training course off SAP education website. Apparently you could easily obtain an OSS ID through their website, granting you have access to the SAP environment at the company you are at.

Click HERE to access the registration page.

Upon entering this site, you will be asked to provide a few information. You will need a valid email address from the company you work for and the installation number.

The installation number could be found from SAP GUI. Inside SAP, click on system and status.

Once you complete this registration you will be given a temporary password. Write down the password as you will need it to complete the registration later on.

The system will send you an email to activate the account and registration. At which point you will need the temporary password you've obtained earlier. After you finish this registration process, you will be given an ID starting with the "S". You will be able to use this to log into http://service.sap.com and OSS Notes.

Good Luck!

Easily Populate T510F

Often time, most of us forget to populate T510F or don't even know T510F exist. For those who don't know this table, it control what currency to default for the employee at the wage type level on P0008 based upon their country assignment, pay scale type, and pay scale area.

Forunately there is a standard deliver program that will automatically populate this table for you. Go to SE38 and type in program "RPU10F20". This program will look at country assignment on your employee and check to see if there are missing entry in T510F. It will populate for you!

Sample Program Screen:

Sample Executed Output:

Not Show Compensation Plan In MSS

In creating compensation plans inside Enterprise Compensation Management, the main need of it is to have it available in the MSS Compensation Tool for managers to use and plan against. However, at times there are needs not to display the compensation plan in MSS and only use it via infotype 0759 by the HR department.


This tip was shown to me by an Anonymous Towers Perrin consultant (person perfer to remain anonymous). To do this is actually very easy and it does explain in the SAP help document (which I had overlooked).

What first need to be done is create a separated compensation review period and attach all compensation plans you wish NOT to show in MSS compensation planning screen to it.


SPRO -> Personnel Management -> Enterprise Compensation Management -> Compensation Administration -> Compensation Plans and Reviews -> "Define Compensation Reviews"

As you can see from the screen above, this is the configuration screen for Compensation Review. You normally would have one where you would attach MERIT compensation plans and/or BONUS, etc to.

In the case of certain compensation plans not wanting to be display in MSS, you simplity would need to not specify any dates in the "Review Period". See help documents below.

As you can see in the verbiages, it said "...to define a period during which the line manager is allowed to process a compensation review in Manager Self-Service". By not specifying a review period, you are NOT allowing the line manager to process the compensation plan in MSS, as the result it is not visible to them to select.

This is extremely useful in situation where HR has certain compensation plans restricted to certain individual where they would prefer it be administer via IT0759, rather through MSS.

Outstanding little trick!

(If anyone else has any goodies and would like to share it, drop me an email explaining it and I'll post it. Do also specify if you prefer to be anonymous or have your name to the credit.)

Easily Produce PDF Documents From Any SAP Reports

There is a little known program available in SAP that will assist you in producing Adobe PDF output in most "standard" and "customized" SAP reports. The program is called "Converting SAPScript(OFT) or ABAP List Spool Job To PDF". You have to access it via transaction "SE38" or "SE80" using the program name "RSTXPDFT4".

As you can see from the screenshot above, this is a fairly simple program to use. All you have to do is provide it a spool request ID.

Example:

I will use the standard SAP delivered program "Entries and Leaves" (transaction: S_PH9_46000223 - EEs Entered and Left). Upon executing this transaction, I will get an ALV format output. Normally I would export this to MS Excel, however let say I would like to produce a PDF format instead.
From the menu bar, I would select List -> Print

Upon printing, you will receive at the bottom of the screen a "Spool Request"

Using the spool request number, you would enter it into the program and execute. It is that simple!