Large boring extract from SAP

[former_member183909]

Hi

I've a requirement for a large extract of SAP R/3 Invoices to take place at 3am. This list of Invoices is to be put into a format for the 3rd Party System and then FTP'd.

Now I could do this in R/3 via a ABAP Program without using XI at all. !! No problem but boring !

But I'd like to know of a good and efficient way via XI. Certainly the message mapping would be easier.

Now for the extract in XI the way I thought of is to write an R/3 RFC and call that from XI. RFC could return 1000s of lines - hmmm? is that the only way of doing a large extract of data from XI. What is the recommended way ?

Should I just stick with the normal boring way and do it in R/3 ?

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hey

For any master upload i would prefer ALE over XI,if the data volume is huge, XI/PI is known to choke up at times.

You could use RFC or Proxy to extract data from ECC and pass on the message to XI but please take message volume into consideration as well.

Thanx

Aamir

[former_member183909 · Accepted solution]

I ended up working out how to use ABAP Proxy - way more fun !.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

How much data did you send through XI?

I have a similar requirement to send SD Pricing Conditions to multiple third paty applications (the record count is in millions...)

I am debating myself to either send it through XI or not.

Just curious to find out if this is a good idea or not