SAP GUI 7.40 Java

[erik_hendrix]

I just installed SAP GUI 7.40 Java on my OS X system. So far I've encountered 2 problems:

1. I had all my connections identified through a connections and a MessageServers file. It looks like 7.40 changes how this is done and thus imports those. However, although I can see all my folders, all my connections to the SAP systems are not displayed. Upon further looking into it, it seems that the "<services>" section in SAPGUILandscape.xml is not filled in with my entries. I would have expected to see all my SAP Logon entries to be there, not just the folders.

2. I have SNC enabled and working with SAP GUI 7.30; but 7.40 keeps on stating that SNC is disabled. I am using the updated version provided by Benjamin (GUI 7.30rev3 for OS X has no sncgss.dyld) and that one is still working today with SAPGUI 7.30. Was anything changed in this respect with 7.40 for Mac?

Thanks.

[erik_hendrix]

Been able to figure out point 2. Seems that Yosemite made a change as well and /etc/launchd.conf is not used anymore. Hence, the SNC_LIB was not set but I guess it was not impacting 7.30 for SSO but it is 7.40.

To enable SNC on OS X with 7.40 on Yosemite. First you still need the sncgss.dyld library mentioned in discussion  GUI 7.30rev3 for OS X has no sncgss.dyld).

Next you need to create a plist file in /Library/LaunchAgents (I named mine com.ehendrix.environment.plist). This file needs to contain:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">

<plist version="1.0">

<dict>

  <key>Label</key>

  <string>System_Environment_Variables</string>

  <key>ProgramArguments</key>

  <array>

    <string>sh</string>

    <string>-c</string>

    <string>

    launchctl setenv SNC_LIB /usr/local/lib/sncgss.dyld

    </string>

  </array>

  <key>RunAtLoad</key>

  <true/>

</dict>

</plist>

After that reboot your laptop and 7.40 SNC will work. Hope this helps.

[erik_hendrix]

Just checked in El Capitain. This is still working with setting the environment as mentioned earlier in this thread and downloading the sncgss from: https://github.com/kaduk/osxsnc/archive/osxsnc-1.0-final.zip and then compiling it. README contains instructions on how to compile (just need to download Xcode from App Store which is free).

Enjoy.