HCM IDM Integration

[Former Member]

I'm working on integrating HCM with IDM. I came across the following limitations in one of the documents i happened to glance.

1. When replicating the data to the Identity Center from SAP HCM over the Virtual

Directory Server, you can only use scheduled synchronization. You can not

synchronize the data based on events. This is a limitation of SAP HCM.

2. The delta mechanism is not pre-configured when importing the data from the SAP

HCM system into the staging area in the Identity Center. A full load is always

performed.

Can someone suggest me ways to achieve this integration. Is there are document available?

[Frank_Buchholz]

Hi Joel,

in general, the delta mechanism is only availabe if you are using the Business Suite 6.0 Ehp4 and NW IdM 7.1.

The documentation describes shortly which BADIs have to be activated to use the delta mechanism (usually you will modify the BADI implementation to catch changes of employee master records which are relevant for your IdM installation only):

Retrieval of Employee-Related Data by SAP ERP HCM

http://help.sap.com/erp2005_ehp_04/helpdata/EN/75/28be4785c247828834285cc3aefc11/frameset.htm

If you are using this delta mechanism you can schedule the LDAP export with a short repetition period - as a result you get something like nearly event driven synchronization between HCM and IdM.

Kind regards

Frank

[Former Member]

Hello there

The links above seem to be broken. How does one ask SAP to fix the broken links? I am currently not able to access any documentation on the delta load functionality available from Enhancement Pack 4.

Best regards,

Anders

[Former Member]

Hi Davis,

these two are available from NW IDM 7.1

regards

Anand.M

[Former Member]

Anand,

Would you be able to point me to any document? Or I would really appreciate it if you could provide me a starting point on this. All the documents I've seen explain the initial load approach. But my client is looking for a near real time synchronization of user data.

Thanks,

Biju.

[Former Member]

May be below documents would be helpful

1.http://help.sap.com/erp2005_ehp_04/helpdata/EN/75/28be4785c247828834285cc3aefc11/content.htm

2.http://help.sap.com/erp2005_ehp_04/helpdata/EN/4d/b5a44ec8b146e6a4b07b465cd732dd/content.htm

regards

nag