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The configuration of SAP Fiori is a painstaking process. On the front end system (where the gateway is used) you have to perform several tasks to activate Odata capabilities. You can automate most of those tasks using transaction STC01. With SAP NetWeaver 7.4 SPS 10, SAP has added tasks to automate OData and HTTP (ICF) services . Following are the task available on STC01 to perform Fronend setup: SAP_FIORI_LAUNCHPAD_INIT_SETUP - To activate launchpad OData and HTTP services on an SAP Gateway system (frontend) SAP_SAP2GATEWAY_TRUSTED_CONFIG - To create a trusted connection from an SAP system to SAP Gateway. SAP_GATEWAY_ADD_SYSTEM -  To connect an SAP system (backend) to an SAP Gateway system (frontend). SAP_GATEWAY_ADD_SYSTEM_ALIAS - To create a system alias for an existing remote function call destination (to backend). SAP_GATEWAY_ACTIVATE_ODATA_SERV - To activate multiple OData services. OData services are required to initially set up the SAP Fiori Launchpad and the ...

Alright, so you have patched or upgraded MDM and now the SRM portal users or functional consultants see the following error The issue is usually triggered because of incompatibility between MDM server and MDM Catalog management component on SRM Java. You can check for compatibility from PAM . Search for MDM CATALOG and go to Support Pack Stacks tab. Open the note corresponding to SPS level of SRM_MDM_CAT and search for the term is based on . This will show the compatibility between SRM_MDM_CAT and MDM Server. Make sure you meet this requirement. Apart from SRM_MDM_CAT, there are two more components that are important MDM_CONNECTOR MDM_JAVA_API These components should be at the same SPS level as the MDM Server. The older SRM Java systems may not have MDM_CONNECTOR deployed, but it is mandatory to deploy this component from MDM 7.1 SP07.