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Comment by charlesism | Hacker News Reader

Nonsense, SAP is great.

All Target needed to do is G42 their VV6s into a bunch of CC5 subtables. Then they'd have been free to JK8 the W1 data to an F123098 batch, and... abracadabra, Y29 reports for the whole company!

Hmm, wait a moment. I think that should be G420, not G42. Let me call my consultant, and I'll get back to you.

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"RPCEWGJ2 is a standard Executable ABAP Report available within your SAP system (depending on your version and release level)...If you would like to see the full code listing simply enter RPCEWGJ2 into the relevant SAP transaction such as SE38 or SE80"

Found some documentation on Google - I thought you were joking :(

I like their use of "simply" in that sentence.

What I love about SAP is that the only way to work in it is to be trained inhouse at the cost of literally tens of thousands of dollars.

Even Oracle lets you install their database for free to figure out how to use it. You'll never get that chance with SAP. Is it any wonder SAP analyst get paid so much money? I'd say it's not just for their expertise, it's because SAP have sewn up the market.

It's amazing that a simple comment on HN reminds me, viscerally, of how I will never, ever write software. So much so, that if I ever find myself contemplating this approach, I'll jump off the nearest building.

To be fair, that's not actually software they're writing, it's a guarantee of future employment for a bunch of consultants. Don't be fooled just because they call it "software".

Typo in my post, too late to edit now. Meant to say "write this type of software". As a developer, not writing any code would put a serious dent in my paycheck. ;)

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