Tag Archives: PI/PO

What is the Difference Between SAP PI, PO and CPI?

Do you feel like there is a complete overhaul of the SAP middleware every 3 days? Ever wondered what are the differences between XI, PI, and PO? Well, you are not alone! There have been major changes to SAP middleware XI/PI/PO in its lifetime. From the first introduction of SAP XI in 2002, SAP has […]

How to Publish Services in SAP PI/PO Service Registry

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 […]

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

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 […]

Proxy Communication Error SLD_NO_OWN_BS

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 […]

Dynamic File Name in SAP PI

In SAP PI/PO there are several ways to create dynamic file names at receiver channel. Depending on the requirment you can make use of either Adapter Specific Massage Attributes (ASMA), User Defined Function (UDF) or Variable Substitution to set the file name dynamically. I have three articles explaining each method step by step with an […]

Variable Substitution Configuration Example

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 […]

Adapter Specific Message Attributes SAP PI

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 […]

Number Range Objects Example SAP PI/PO B2B

If you have a requirement to assign a unique sequence number to a target field you can do that using below method in PI 7.3 or higher single stack versions. This type of unique sequence number requirement is common when you have B2B EDI integration scenarios with business partners. EDI segments ISA.13 (Interchange Control Number), […]

File to File Scenario without IR (ESR) Objects

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 […]