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Netweaver license key

To operate SAP NetWeaver or individual components, you need one or more of the following SAP NetWeaver license keys:
● License type Standard (ABAP license key for components SAP BW, SAP KW, and SAP Web AS)
● License type J2EE Engine (license key for standalone SAP J2EE Engine)
After you have installed the components, the system is equipped with a temporary license, which is valid for four weeks. During this time, you have to apply for a permanent license from SAP and install it.
In SAP NetWeaver 7.0 and higher, there is a new type license key in addition to the old type. This new license key is based on a digital signature. Both types of license key are installed and administered with SLICENSE, as previously, and are available as temporary and permanent license keys. The functions for the new license keys can be found by choosing the New Licenses button and are described in the procedure the same as the existing functions are.
To allow a seamless transition, both types of license keys initially function in parallel after the upgrade. If license keys of the old type were already installed, you can continue to use these. However, we recommend that you also import license keys of the new type, since the license keys of the old type will be deactivated in the future. For this reason, only keys of the new type are assigned for new installations.
Requesting an SAP License Key
Information about requesting the license key from SAP is available on the SAP Service Marketplace at http://service.sap.com/licensekey and in SAP Note 94998
Source: help.sap.com
Process to generate netweaver license key:

Login to Java portal home page

Click on “SAP NetWeaver Administrator”

It will prompt for valid ID and password.
After successful providing credentials, below screen will appear.

Now go to configuration management tab

Click infrastructure

Now click on License button

It will lead to a screen where we can see currently installed license and its validity.

To apply license just click Install from file and browse the license file and install.

Few notes on SAP License:

Note Number	Topic (Short Text)
94998	Request license key for systems / delete systems
767123	NetWeaver 04 License Key
765620	SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio
566263	SAP license in upgrade to Release 6.x (or higher)
628630	Core dump in SlicShmInit
174911	Formation of the hardware key (customer key)
612645	Performance problems accessing table LICENSE
432308	SAPLICENSE 6.10: new field SYSTEM-NR
355536	Importing the SAP license from a file
538081	High availability SAPLICENSE
576136	License expiry date is not displayed correctly
428966	Transaction SLICENSE: installation is not working
485233	Table MLICHECK in wrong table space on Oracle
742024	Downloading the license key
181543	License key for high availability environment
198140	Reassigning systems

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Creating S-user ID in SAP Marketplace

What is S-User ID?
S-User ID is just a unique user ID with which you can access SAP portal link. We call it as SAP Service Marketplace.

We can request new S user accounts for project team by clicking the Request New Users link in SAP Marketplace. Once SAP receives the user account request, a new account is created and the login information (S user account and password) is available online. The Basis administrator can then provide this to the appropriate project team user. Once the user account is created by SAP, the necessary authorizations can be performed by the Basis administrator online. Several other options are available for administering the online user accounts, including a few mass maintenance options.

Login to service.sap.com page and go to “Data Administration” tab and the go to “User Data”

In User Data, click “Request New User” button.

There we will get a New user request form with some necessary details like Title, Surname, First Name, Language, Telephone No etc.
Fill details and click “Authorization” button.

Fill all details

Here in authorization page select the relevant authorizations which we need for particular user or we can copy another person’s authorization to new user.

To copy from a particular user Click on “User Id”

We will get option to type user name of the person from whom we are going to copy.

After entering the user ID click “Search” and we will get search result.

Click on user name.
And then click copy

You will get list of all authorization which selected user has got.
Now select done

You will again be redirected to initial screen.
Now save it.

Now we will get message “Your request has been saved and will be processed”

Go to display requested user tab.

The new requested user’s name will be shown here in “In Progress” status.

After 2 hours you will get below screen with status “Successful”

Send the user ID and initial password listed in this page to the user.
Inactive Users
When a user no longer works for your company or does not need access to SAP Service Marketplace any more, the Super Administrator is responsible for deleting it to prevent unauthorized access.
Users deleted in the last six months can be viewed and reactivated using Display Deleted Users. Users that have not logged on to SAP Service Marketplace for 12 months are automatically deleted if they are not actively kept through the Clean up Inactive Users function.

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Developer Key and its requirement (DEVACCESS table)

What is Developer Key?

The developer key is a combination of your installation number, license key (that we get from marketplace http://service.sap.com/licensekey) and the user name. We need this for each person that will make changes (Dictionary or programs) in the system.

Why Developer Key is required?

SAP developers require two things before they can actually do development work in SAP - right authorizations and a developer access key. As with everything else in SAP, when a developer tries to execute a transaction, he will need the required authorizations in her profiles. In addition, he needs to be assigned a developer access key. The authorizations can be checked in the user master records while the developer access key can be checked using table DEVACCESS. Table DEVACCESS will show the user ID and the developer key assigned to the user ID. You should only expect to see name of developers in this table.

What happens when the entry for a developer is deleted in the DEVACCESS table but the developer continues to use the same user ID?

The developer can still use the old developer access key.
The reason: Developer access key is nothing but an algorithm based on system number and SID and some other system values (SAP does not reveal the information). The developer access key is validated by SAP using a Kernel level C system program ''CHECK_DEVELOPER_KEY'. So, even if the developer access key has been deleted for a user ID in the DEVACCESS table, he can still use the same developer access key.

Which Table is the Developer Key Stored In?

If we would like to look up at your developer key and save it and have it available for the next system refresh.
The table name is DEVACCESS and can be viewed with SE16 and SE11.
For new ABAP developer, we will be prompt for the developer if we are trying to create a program using the standard SAP naming convention.
Customer own created program should all start with a "Y" or "Z".