[Macpartners] Announcing New Release and Support for Macintosh SAPguis

[Ronald E. Parker]

From: IS&T Administrative Computing (SAP Administration)
   and: Client Support Services (Software Release)

To: The MIT SAP Community

Hello,

With this message, IS&T announces the general availability and support of 
two new SAPgui software releases for the MIT community's Macintosh users. 
The IS&T software download page now contains an installer for SAPgui 6.30 
for Mac OS X 10.3.9 "Panther" users and an installer for the initial 
version of SAPgui 6.40 for Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" users (IS&T recommends 
version 10.4.3 or higher).

This announcement is meant for those colleagues, in your office or 
department, that use the SAP MacOS front end software (as opposed to a 
SAPweb or a CITRIX session) to execute SAP transactions from their 
Macintosh machines. It is also intended for those colleagues that help 
maintain such Macintosh machines. Macintosh SAPgui users should upgrade to 
these releases if they want to execute SAP transactions from PowerPC-based 
Macintosh machines running the Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" operating system, or 
if they encounter problems with the previous version of the SAPgui (6.20) 
on Macintosh machines running Mac OS X 10.3.9.

The Macintosh SAPgui software is available for download at URL:
<http://web.mit.edu/software/mac.html>.

SAPgui 6.30 contains various bug fixes and it is compatible with the 
September 2005 "Java Security Update" for Mac OS X "Panther" 10.3.9 which 
has impacted some MIT Macintosh machines.

SAPgui 6.40 is designated, by SAP, as the currently preferred version of 
Macintosh SAPgui software for installations and upgrades. It contains 
various bug fixes and new features, such as support for Mac OS X 10.4 
"Tiger" and enhancements to its controls for the display of SAP tabular (or 
grid) data.

There is a known issue with both of these SAPgui versions related to the 
processing of text file line-end character strings. In addition, this 
"initial" SAPgui 6.40 release has been known to have issues related to 
potential file upload delays and issues related to the pasting of text data 
from the Macintosh clipboard.

Please note that, while the SAPgui 6.40 software is supported to run on 
PowerPC-based Macintosh machines, the software is not designed (or 
supported) to run on the new Intel-based Macintosh machines that Apple has 
recently started shipping. IS&T plans to effect a subsequent release of 
Macintosh SAPgui 6.40 software, hopefully within the next few months (after 
the updated software is made generally available by SAP) in order to 
provide support for Intel-based Macintosh machines and corrections for the 
other known SAPgui 6.40 issues.

You can find more information, on the known issues or on the Macintosh 
system requirements for this software, by clicking on the "Description" 
column of the "SAPgui 6.30" and "SAPgui 6.40" rows found at the 
aforementioned software download URL,
<http://web.mit.edu/software/mac.html>.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the Computing Help 
Desk for assistance, either by sending email to computing-help at mit.edu or 
by calling phone number 617-253-1101 (extension 3-1101).

Thank you for your attention.


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Ronald E. Parker
Manager, Administrative Computing - SAP Administration (R3-Admin)
Information Services and Technology (IS&T)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.)
Room W92-210
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts  02139-4307

Phone: 617-253-1339
Email: rep at mit.edu
Fax: 617-253-9661
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