Skip to Content
0
Oct 14, 2005 at 12:03 PM

My scenario ....

19 Views

My experience with XI is none but i'm responsable of it in a sapnish company.

I went to the sap training one month ago. The training consisted in TBIT40 and TBIT44 (only a part). Everything was OK because SAP was configured properly.

The problem was that wen i arrived home and started to make the same exercises, nothing works. First of all i founded an standalone application. The person who configured this scenario decide to put files on a folder of a PC. Then, this file adapter send files to XI BOX, XI BOX send the message via BAPI to R3 and return an answer to the PC with an XML file.

I can't understand this scenario. First of all, because i read that standalone adapters are part of XI 2.0 and in XI 3.0 is usual to work with the new adapters that are integrated in the XI BOX.

My scenario is like this : 5 PC that makes XML files. This XML files must be 'uploaded' to XI via FILE ADAPTER. I don't care if the files folders are in the XI BOX or in remote PC. I will use file adapter (NFS) is the files are in the XI BOX or FTP adapters if they are in remote computers.

Next step was making a demo to show to the customers hoy XI works. I made 2 third party business systems. The integration server and the R3 backend were already defined. I made all the integration repository part and then try to make the integration directory part. My doubts appear defining the comm. channels. I defined 1 sender communication channel to 1 of the business systems. This comm channel was receiver of a file via FTP. The result must be another XML file posted in another remote PC, via FTP.

all my efforts are for nothing. I couldn't make this scenario go well. So, my question is, what have i done wrong?

Could you help me with this simple case?

note : i had a 'hard conversation' with a systems consultant that told me that she must install the standalone java application in order to use file adapters, but i told her that in XI 3.0 this is not neccesary. Is she telling me the truth or is she wrong?

Thanks a lot to everyone.