I changed my password today on my Red Hat desktop.  In the process, I misspelled the password.  I tried to change it with the passwd command, but the system told me I needed more time before I was allowed to change my password.  bleh.
So, I logged in as root, ran passwd myusername and typed the [...]

I learned how to do a Goods Receipt today (ed. note: This was actually written in september of 2005).
(I hope this stuff won’t get me in trouble for posting how to do it in
the wide open, but …)
Here goes:
This requires you have a PO number, if you do NOT have a PO number, you
need [...]

This morning (editor’s note: This post was actually written on Monday, September 19th, 2005), I got paged with a bunch of Control-M jobs that didn’t run. So, here’s how we resolved that. I opened the Control-M Enterprise GUI. I ‘open’ed ‘all active jobs’ and then selected the button on the toolbar third from the top [...]

Here’s how it’s done:

Login to the server in question, and then su to the SIDadm user. For this example, we’ll use the server named r3db1, where the SID = UP2.
# su – up2adm
r3db1:up2adm %
Next, cd to the /usr/sap/trans/bin directory:
r3db1:up2adm % cd /usr/sap/trans/bin
Now, we need to connect to the right instance:
r3db1:up2adm % tp connect UP2
This is [...]

If, for whatever reason, you schedule a transport to run, but, later, you decide that it should NOT run, you can cancel the job by following these steps:

Login as yourself
Execute transaction stms (Transport Management System screen)
Click the import overview button
On the Import Overview screen, double-click the system (SID) in question
Don’t forget to Refresh the Import [...]