Can't change SDM password

[Former Member]

Hello,

When trying to deploy to my local J2EE engine I get prompted for the SDM password but it won't take "sdm" as password.

So I did some searching on here and found a couple of posts about it but I can't get any of the suggestions offered to work.

I opened a new post so I can reward whoever helps me solve it.

This post suggests running SDM in standalone mode and refers to note 756084 but it doesn't tell me HOW to find the note. Sorry, I'm still newbie to SAP.

[Former Member]

Turns out I had "fat-fingered" the hashed value in the sdmrepository.sdc file. I typed an alpha o instead of a numeric 0 in one position.

Once I changed the value to "yPLDEBe3oOb6H2mmjJ0zztOgw/A="

and restarted everything I was able to use the "sdm" password.

Thanks!

[yonko_yonchev]

Hello everyone,

this topic has already been discussed.

Please see

Regards,

Yonko

[Former Member]

Can anyone please help me with this?

What is the process for submitting this as a formal support request to SAP?

[Vlado]

Hi David,

The process should be to open an OSS message - please go thru http://service.sap.com/message. To your previous question how to find a note: http://service.sap.com/notes.

Best regards,

Vladimir

[Former Member]

Vladimir,

Thanks for the links. Although they didn't directly solve my problem they were very helpful.

David.

[Former Member]

Oops, I clicked Post Message instead of Preview so it posted my question before I was ready.

Just ignore the two links in my first message. The links should have been:

POST #1

POST #2

Here's another post I found that seemed a little more promising but I still couldn't fix my problem with the suggestions in it.

I tried updating the sdmrepository.sdc as described in the above post but it didn't seem to make a difference. All I did was disable the SDM, change the file, enable SDM and try to deploy again.

Should I do something else?

I also tried to change it at the command line using the

sdm changepassword sdmhome=<...> newpassword=<...> [password=<...>]

command as described in above post. Couldn't get that to work either.

Then I tried the suggestion about running SDM in standalone mode. Again, got errors.

It looks like there might be something wrong with the way I'm running this command. I found an SDM.BAT file in the C:usrsapJ2EJC00SDMprogram directory.

I'm a little confused about what that file really does. The first line of the file executes batch file "sdm_prep_com.bat". The next line executes %sdm_com% with a bunch of input parms representing any command line parms entered.

Seems pretty straightforward but when I try to execute it I keep getting message telling me the usage of the command.

Can anyone help me please?

Thanks in advance.

David.