how t o connect with external FTP server using SAP

[laxman_sankhla3]

hi

how to connect with external FTP server using SAP .

by using ftp_connect function module.

thanks in advanced.

[ashok_kumar24]

Hi Laxman,

You use the plain J2SE Adapter Engine to connect SAP Exchange Infrastructure (XI) to external systems. Using the various adapters in the Adapter Engine, XML and HTTP-based messages can be converted to the specific protocol and format required by such systems, and the other way around.

In principle, you connect external systems to SAP XI using the adapters that are installed centrally or non-centrally in the Adapter Engine (J2EE). You configure this centrally by using the Integration Directory. Additional functions include an enhanced monitoring and increased downtime security due to the J2EE-based cluster operation of the Adapter Engine.

The plain J2SE Adapter Engine provides some of these adapters as a standalone version with restricted functions for operating systems that do not support the SAP J2EE server, but that do have JDK 1.3.1 or higher. Therefore, you should only use the plain J2SE Adapter Engine if the platform prerequisites do not allow you to use the J2EE-based Adapter Engine.

You install the individual adapters either separately or together, and then configure them using their own configuration interface.

For information about security settings for the adapter, see: Adapters Running in the Plain J2SE Adapter Engine

Implementation Considerations

The plain J2SE Adapter Engine (referred to below as the Adapter Engine) is a separate software component that you must install later.

Its features are the same as those of the Adapter Engine shipped with SAP XI 2.0. You can copy the adapter configurations of the XI 2.0 Adapter Engine to the XI 3.0 Adapter Engine without changes. However, in order to be able to use all the XI 3.0 message format options, you must change the address parameters in the sender adapter configurations as described below. You then copy the XI 2.0 adapter configurations (see the section Upgrading the Installation of an XI 2.0 Adapter Engine in Installation).

Features

Depending on the configuration, the adapters can be used to do the following:

Exchange data with external systems using a file interface or an FTP server (file/FTP adapter)

Communicate with messaging systems using the JMS API (JMS adapter)

Access databases using JDBC (JDBC adapter)

Communicate with clients and providers of Web Services using SOAP (SOAP adapter)

An important distinction to be made here is whether an adapter is a sender adapter (converts data from external systems) or an receiver adapter (converts data from the Integration Engine).

To begin functioning, each sender or receiver adapter must be appropriately installed and configured, and then started.

You can use different adapters simultaneously or different configurations of the same adapter. For this purpose, it may be necessary for you to change the installation parameters to enhance the installation.

Good Luck

Thanks

AK

[Former Member]

hi,

Plz go to this link

/people/thomas.jung3/blog/2004/11/15/performing-ftp-commands-from-abap

hope this helps.