BPM requried

[Former Member]

Hi All,

Bleow is my scenario.

IDOC will send the data to PI and it does the mapping and then sends to third party system.

From Third party system will return back the response and then need to create the NEW IDOC in R/3 system.

Does this scenario require BPM?

Please suggest.

Thanks

Vikranth

[Former Member]

Yes, BPM is required for this just to get the async/sync bridge.

Please refer the link : /people/sriram.vasudevan3/blog/2005/01/11/demonstrating-use-of-synchronous-asynchronous-bridge-to-integrate-synchronous-and-asynchronous-systems-using-ccbpm-in-sap-xi

[henrique_pinto]

Is the communication to the third party synchronous?

If yes, then you need BPM, sync async/sync bridges without BPM just work for adapters in the Adapter Engine, which is not the case of IDOC Adapter.

There are possible workarounds, like saving/triggering IDOCs from files and making it a file - 3rd party - file scenario on PI, which would work without BPM, but the additional complexity + performance lost due to the file pooling times probably won't make it worthwhile.

BR,

Henrique.