How to pause a communication channel?

[Former Member]

Hi All,

Need to borrow some wisdom please.

I have a PI 710 system which is sending IDOCs to 2 different ERP systems. Each of these systems will have downtime windows (planned and unplanned) and we'd like to develop a way where the communication channel for the affected system pauses sending IDOCs while the system is down. When the system comes back, PI will start sending IDOCs again.

The goal is to have an adaptive PI system that can respond to outages in one system or both systems.

I'm not sure how to do this - has anyone hit this before?

Thanks!

Tim

[bhavesh_kantilal · Accepted solution]

Hey Tim

If I understand this right, XI is posting idoc's to SAP and SAP might go down, planned or unplanned.

If this is the case, you still need not worry; as this is where XI's Guaranteed Delivery kicks in.

When SAP is down, the idoc's will get Queued in the TRFC queue in SM58 as the RFC destination will not be able to connect to R3. In this case, when the system comes up again, just restart the LUW in Sm58 and Idoc's will get posted again.

Regards

Bhavesh

[Former Member]

Hi All.

Thank you very much, This is the information I needed. We can schedule for the planned downtimes and still be ready for the unplanned downtimes.

Thanks too for the quick responses!!!

Cheers,

Tim

[Former Member]

Hi,

As said above, you can [schedule your adapter|refer to this link,regarding scheduling the adapter.] accroding to the availbility of receiving system. Otherwise you can develope your own adapter module, which is not a v good solution for this requirement I guess.

Or if you know the down time of your receiving system then you can mannually deactivate the CC for that time.

Regards,

Sarvesh

[Former Member]

Hi,

There is no intellegent way of making the Adapter pause for a while depending on the availability of the Sebder / Receiver Systems.

But for planned scheduled downtime you can use "Availability of the Adapters"

For rest you can activate / de-activate Adapters from RWB

rgds

srini

[Former Member]

Hey,

refer to this link,regarding scheduling the adapter.

regards,

Milan.

[Former Member]

Hi Tim,

If your downtime is planned then you can control (activating/deactivating) using Availability Time Planning in the communication channel monitor

If it is unplanned then you need to manually stop the communication channels

Refer this fro Availability Time Planning ::

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/EN/45/06bd029da31122e10000000a11466f/content.htm

regards

Ganga

[Former Member]

You can make it InActive in the ID for the communication channel and activate it.

[Former Member]

Hi Tim

You cannot pause a communication channel but you can stop it

Go to RWB Communication channel monitoring ->Stop the channel after selecting

Thanks

Gaurav