Problems regarding SAPGUI history

SAPGUI has a handy feature that remembers fields contents, This is pretty useful especially when loging into SAP. I simply type the first letter of my UserID, press the Arrow-Down key and finally press ENTER. There ya go, my whole userID is typed for me.

Unfortunately, sometimes SAP stops showing old entries. Here’s how to troubleshoot this:

Basic steps:

- Press ALT-F12 (or click the color-monitor icon)
- Choose OPTIONS
- Click on the LOCAL DATA tab.
- Make sure that History is set to ON
- Make sure that Directory for Local Data really exists. if unsure, change that to C:
- If anything was changed, click on OK, stop your all SAPGUI sessions and do not forget to shutdown SAPLOGON (or SAPLOGON PAD)
- restart SAPGUI/SAPLOGON and check if all works

Low-Speed…

- in SAPLOGON, click once on the entry you wish to connect
- Click on CHANGE ITEM
- Click on ADVANCED
- Make sure that LOW-SPEED CONNECTION is not checked.

Corrupted MDB

- in the directory “Directory for Local data” found in Alt-F12, You should find a SAPhistory*.MDB and SAPhistory*.LDB files, these may be corrupted.
Close down SAPGUI and SAPLOGON
- Delete all these files
- Note that all history will be lost but it may re-enable the functionnality

Corrupted DAO files

- SAPGUI uses the MsJet Access database engine to store history. These files may get ruined by another application.
- possible solution is to re-install SAPGUI from scratch
- other possibility is to re-install DAO. These files are available in the DAO35 or DAO36 folder of the SAPGUI installation CD. You can also get it Here

Additional steps

- Make sure that SAPGUI is fully patched
- read OSS Note 199527.
- try rebooting your PC!

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