Dear experts,
I'm opening a new thread for a known problem, as I've went through almost everything
I could find on the topic, but nothing could bring the solution to my problem, which is:
Problem: In a distributed environment - DB server on one host and AS server on another host,
it is not possible to view the BRBACKUP logs in the DB14 transaction. Clicking the Detail Log
button doesn't work.
I know, that it is necessary to have the SAPXPG_DBDEST_<hostname> RFCs working, which
wasn't the case at the beginning.
I tried to make rsh work, without much success. Then I've exchanged ssh keys between both
nodes for the SIDadm user and maintained the gw/remsh parameter with the result of "which ssh".
Now on OS level ssh dbhost -l SIDadm sapxpg is working fine, though the RFC destination was
still malfunctioning.
Then I've installed an SAP gateway on the DB server. After appending the gateway to the
RFC settings and adding the kernel directory of the SIDadm on the DB server to the path
of the gateway user, the RFC destination finally started working !!
Though, when I click Detail Log in DB14, I am STILL getting the following error:
Detail log: benbtxsb.and
Can't exec external program (No such file or directory)
External program terminated with exit code 1
WHICH external program is being executed at this step ? I went to SM69, supplied the path
to the benbtxsb.and log file as an argument to the cat command and this runs fine !!
I have been assuming, that there would be problems in DB13 as well - I've tried to schedule
a simple statistics calculation there. After submitting the definition and clicking on Execute
immediately, the task is being shown as green at the bottom of SAPGUI, but double clicking
on that message hangs the session, until the workprocess has been restarted :-(
What is the problem on my system ??? PLEASE HELP :-)