WHat all s/w needed to learn MDM

[Former Member]

I have IDES ECC 6.0 and MDM 5.5 installed.

WHat all do i need to install to learn MDM?

Do I need XI also ? How difficult is it to configure XI since I am from EP and ABAP...Any way to skip it or connect it?

Is there any specifice components I have to install extra along with MDM ?

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

To start with install GUI Clients i.e. Console, Data Manager, Import Manager and Syndicator. Later you can go for Publisher, Enrichment, Import Server for Automatic Importing, Syndication Server for autopmatic Syndicating etc.

You need XI when you want to establish communication between MDM and R/3. Standard Content is available hence not much efforts are required for configuration.

Regards,

Jitesh Talreja

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

even without XI we can access ECC from MDM right ? Am i correct? Any limitation

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Yes......... Through ABAP APIs

Thanks,

Mahi

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi George,

You can send lookup table data from ECC to MDM using FTP or to local file system without using XI (transaction mdmgx).

But for sending main table data I think you require XI (transaction mdm_clnt_extr in ECC).

Thanks and Regards,

Sagar Sonje

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Geroge,

As said in above post we can use ABAP API.

There are two types of data:

1. Lookup data

2. Main table data

For extracting lookup data from R/3 we have transction MDMGX. For this we dont have to use XI, We need to configure FTP

For Extracting Main table information we have transaction MDM_CLNT_EXTR. For this we have to use XI as a middleware.

Regards,

Jitesh Talreja

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

For Main Table do we have alternative to XI , like API ABAP

Where to do this and what to do for thos?

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi George,

Please refer the below thread and the note mention in it.

I dont think that we have any alternative other than XI for Main table Extraction. We need XI when two systems doesn't understand the format. R/3 sends data in the form of Idocs and MDM doesn't support this instead MDM understands XML which XI outputs.

Regards,

Jitesh Talreja

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi George,

You can also extract the Main Table data from tables like MARA using MDMGX transaction but this is a workaround and a complex process.

Using the standard approach IDOC is triggered from ECC and this IDOC is mapped to the main table of MDM repository and it is routed to MDM through XI.

Hope it helps.

Thanks and Regards,

Sagar Sonje