Posts tagged SAP

This is one of those typical nonsense errors that can creep in and cause hours of research and frustration to resolve. In the end, it’s a carbon-interface problem, but certainly caused only due to the human ability to parse details quickly, then assume everything else…

Why the hell software vendors can’t standardize or just stick to lowercase parameters, especially in the case of a case-sensitive environment like Java is a mystery to me. After deciding to re-generate a new certificate for the SSO connection between the SAP backend and the portal, I made the following entry:

That’s SAPLogonTicketKeyPair, with uppercase P for Pair. I kept, quite naturally, to the convention introduced with uppercase letters for each new part of that rather long key entry. But of course, the creation of that entry will have little effect and will ensure no connection is possible using the SAP logon ticket. After a lengthy J2EE restart and various attempts at testing the new certificate, I was left with a non-functioning environment. Deep within the server0 log, I finally struck upon the problem: SAPLogonTicketKeyPair should be SAPLogonTicketKeypair with a lowercase p for pair. The deletion and recreation of the key value with the correct capitalization requires a new certificate to be generated.

Then it all works again. Wouldn’t saplogonticketkeypair be more logical and leave less room for errors? Or how about some IntelliSense (or is that Intellisense) or a catalogue of permissible values to choose from?