IBM POS with SAP Issue.

[Former Member]

Dear Experts,

I am working at client site, have a peculiar issue please help by providing your suggessions or ideas to solve it.

Here is the Issue : Every time a Transaction is completed at the terminal the data will be written (Appended) to the PTLOGXXX.dat file where XXX resembles the Terminal Number, and once the EOD (End of Day) is run it triggers a DOS (basic) program in the IBM POS Server which converts the .dat files to .txt files and once the conversion happens it triggers the inbound.bat file which sends this PTLOGXXX.txt files to the Unix Server where the information will be spread across to the Oracle Database tables and then the IDOC Conversion happens and IDOC's are sent to the ERP (SAP IS Retail) system.

The issue is that the clients wants to make the system online and make sure that POS Transactions are being sent to SAP system at regular intervals, and secondly the Process of getting the txt files to be converted to IDOCu2019s is taking a lot of time (close to about 2 Hrs) and they wanted to reduce this time.

Appreciate your help.

Regards,

Riaz.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Riaz

Basically what you are looking is online polling or trickle process. What you could try is to let the application which is converting the .dat to .txt files to monitor the PTLOG file. Whenever it gets appended once the transaction is completed you can pick up the appended data (timestamp of the file will keep changing whenever the data gets appended) and convert it to the .txt format and send it to the backend.

Hope this helps!!

Suhail Shaik

SAP Consulting

[Former Member]

Hello Riaz

You can use the real time trickling process which lets you to trickle the Tlogs individually, evrytime a transaction happens at the Terminal. There are some configurations that need to be done at the IBM Server for the application which converts your tlog files and picks it up from the Store Server.

Hope this helps.

Regards

Shantanu.

BSTC.

[Former Member]

For your suggested solution are you considering using SAP PI? are there any SAP tools that let you fully integrate and read, in near real time, from an IBM POS 4690? everything I´ve read about (RDS Shopper Insight or Sales Analytics 4 Retail) deal with SAP POS.

http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/CK/Exchange+Infrastructure+-+SAP+POS+Integration

I need to integrate an IBM POS 4690 in near real time and feed it into a HANA box, this customer is not an SAP ERP customer. Any ideas?