郁闷的SAPConsole

Standalone SAPConsole 7.10

1.       The SAPConsole release cycle is independent of the SAP NetWeaver release cycle.

2.       SAPConsole supports character-cell terminals, including radio frequency (RF) devices, as well as web-equipped devices.

3.       The SAPConsole for web-equipped devices (also called Web-enabled SAPConsole or WebSAPConsole) will no longer be supported for SAP-systems based on SAP NetWeaver 7.1 and higher.

SAP therefore recommends to use ITSmobile for SAP Basis releases 46C and higher.

4.       SAPConsole’s main responsibilities are:

a)         Connecting to, and exchanging information with the SAP system. This information is usually in the form of descriptions of screen elements and their contents.

b)         Managing the interaction between users and screens.

5.       There are two ways of information exchange with SAPConsole:

a)         Via Telnet. Telnet is used for character-base terminals. During a telnet connection, the telnet client connects to the Telnet server and the Telnet server starts sapcnsl.exe as command interpreter. For every authenticated connection a new interpreter is started. The rendering is done by the console displayer.

b)         Via Web Server. During a browser-based session, the browser connects to the web server. In the example show in the picture, the Web Server is an IIS web server. IIS starts isapi_sapcnsl.dll as command interpreter. The rendering is done by the web displayer.

6.       As of SAP NetWeaver 7.10, SAP J2EE Engine is not supported anymore as web server in the SAPConsole scenario. Instead the available IIS of Windows 2003 should be used.

7.       SAPConsole has the following limitations:

a)         It requires Windows 2003 server (32 bit).

b)         It does not support some advanced SAP GUI features such as tab strips, ActiveX controls.

8.       ITS is SAP’S standard technology to bring applications based on ABAP-Dynpros to the web.

9.       ITS supports all hardware and operating system platforms supported by SAP NetWeaver.

10.   ITSmobile is not only available for newer releases based on SAP NetWeaver, but also for SAP Basis release 4.6C and newer SAP products which can be accessed via ITS 6.20 standalone.