This blog post contains all necessary steps to get started with gCTS in the SAP ABAP Platform 1909, Developer Edition. The abbreviation stands for Git-enabled Change and Transport System.
gCTS in SAP ABAP Platform 1909, Developer Edition
SAP ABAP Platform 1909, Developer Edition, on Ubuntu VirtualBox Guest
SAP released the SAP ABAP Platform 1909 as Developer Edition in February 2021 and provides the ABAP Platform on SAP HANA 2.0 as a Docker image. This blog post explains how you install the SAP ABAP Platform 1909, Developer Edition, on a Ubuntu VirtualBox guest machine and access it from another one. The second Ubuntu VirtualBox guest machine contains Eclipse and the SAP GUI for Java.
abapGit: PREFIX Error on the SAP Cloud Platform ABAP Environment
“PREFIX: Unexpected package naming (…) you might switch to FULL folder logic”. This error occurred when I was trying to push a package with sub packages via abapGit from the SAP Cloud Platform ABAP Environment (SCP) to GitHub.
Ubuntu: How to install SapMachine, Eclipse with ADT, abapGit, and SAP GUI for Java
One development tool for SAP ABAP developers is Eclipse with plugins like the ABAP Development Tools (ADT) and the belonging abapGit. This blog post gives an overview how you set your ABAP development environment up on Ubuntu 20.04 to connect to SAP On-premise and/or Cloud Platform.
Set up a basic development system
As a career changer I had hardly any experience with setting up basic development systems, and that is the reason, why I understand the huge challenge which programming newbies often have. I want to explain which basic development system I use and why.
