Data Federator and ERP Connector (Prototype)

[Former Member]

Dear Experts,

when connecting with Data Federator to a ERP System the installation of the ERP Connector (Prototype) is necessary.

Is there an official way to connect to a ERP System with Data Federator without using a Prototype which is not supported?

Is there a newer version of this prototype which is now officially available?

A link to the document which describes the ERP Connector Prototype

[original link is broken]

Thanks a lot

Daniel

Edited by: Daniel Sappok on Feb 22, 2011 1:45 PM

[Former Member]

Hi Daniel,

I couldn't find a non prototype version of the Data Federator to SAP ERP JCO connector on the SAP Support side. The prototype is over a year old and a DF release has occured since it came out but I haven't seen anything about a non-prototype connection. It'd be nice since this would be a useful use case for Data Federator.

I'm asking SAP but haven't gotten a response yet.

Edit: For DF questions, you'd probably have somewhat more luck at the "Data Integration and Quality Management Forum"

Thanks,

Kerby

Edited by: Kerby Johnson on May 4, 2011 10:55 PM

[Former Member]

Hi,

please explain what type of ERP object (ABAP function, SAP Query or Infoset) you want to connect to.

For example you can connect DF to any ABAP function w/o the connector package:

- Create an RFC wrapper around the function, if it's not already RFC-enabled

- Generate a WebService wrapper around the RFC wrapper

- Connect DF to this Web Service using the DF Web Service adaptor

Joerg

PS: If the ABAP function has tables as import parameters then neither the DF web service adaptor nor the connector package are suitable. Workaround using BW:

- Create a BW extractor around the function

- Create a BW virtual provider on top of this datasource

- Connect DF to the BW virtual provider using the DF BW adptor

Edited by: Joerg Richter on May 6, 2011 12:48 PM