Category Archives: PI/PO

SAP Process Integration and Process Orchestration

Data Type Enhancements

Data Type Enhancements for ABAP Proxy Interfaces

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Data Type Enhancements in SAP Process Integration (PI)/Process Orchestration (PO) facilitates modification of input/output data structures of a standard Service Interface or Proxies Interfaces provided with SAP standard applications. Although you can use Data Type Enhancements to append structures to input or output structures of any ABAP proxy (Standard or custom), standard use of the […]

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B2B

B2B Add-On Installation Guide

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SAP introduced B2B Integration Cockpit (add-on) to facilitate all EDI communications of an organization with one component. Let’s look at how to install B2B add-on in Process Integration (PI) or Process Orchestration (PO). We will look at the steps that should be carried out as part of the Post Installation of B2B Integration Cockpit. B2B […]

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Mapping

Parametarized Mapping Example in SAP PI/PO

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Parameterized mapping is a great way to leverage your mapping program to have multiple applications. SAP introduced this technique first in SAP PI version 7.1. Parameterized mapping allows you to transfer values to mapping program or values from the mapping program. Similar to how we use import and export parameters in a function, parameters can […]

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RFC, Service Registry, SOAP

How to Publish Services in SAP PI/PO Service Registry

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Before we go through the steps on how to Publish Services in SAP PI/PO Service Registry, lets look at features of Service Registry. Service registry is a UDDI based repository which contain enterprise services and related metadata. Located centrally in SOA landscape, It represents a set of web services. Service Registry supports SAP and non-SAP […]

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RFC, Service Registry, SOAP

Expose RFC as Web Service in SAP PI/PO – SOAP to RFC Synchronous Interface

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In this article we will look at how to expose a RFC as a Web service in SAP PI/PO. Using SOAP to RFC synchronous interface we would be exposed a RFC as a web service. Most commonly researched topics under third-party system integration with SAP is how to use RFCs and web services to expose […]

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SLD, SOAP

Proxy Communication Error SLD_NO_OWN_BS

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While setting up proxy communication between PI/PO and SAP backend, after a new PI/PO 7.4 single stack server installation, I came across error “SLD_NO_OWN_BS”. Full Error in PI Message Log: “SOAP: Call failed: com.sap.aii.af.sdk.xi.srt.BubbleException: System Error Received. HTTP Status Code = 200: However System Error received in payload ErrorCode = SLD_NO_OWN_BS ErrorCategory = XIServer Parameter1 […]

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File Adapter

Variable Substitution Configuration Example

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Lets look at how to configure Variable Substitutions at receiver File adapter. Variables or data elements from xml payload can be assigned to file name at PI/PO runtime using this method.   Receiver file channel has capabilities of defining the file directory and the file name of the output file. Variable substitution method is a […]

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ASMA, File Adapter

Adapter Specific Message Attributes SAP PI

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ASMA or adapter specific message attributes are additional information about the message. Each adapter has set of ASMA and these are available in in message header. These attributes can be accessed in message mapping or routing under namespace “http://sap.com/xi/XI/System/<Adapter Metadata Object Name of Adapter>” In this example file and SFTP ASMA are used in file to […]

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PI/PO

File to File Scenario without IR (ESR) Objects

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This article shows a PI integration File to File scenario which is configured to move files from application server location to FTP location. This interface is able to move any type of file regardless of its structure and extension. For this kind of interface you do not require integration repository objects as file structure is […]

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