Can PI handle IDocs in ASCII Format directly, without ContentConversion?

[Former Member]

Hi,

I got IDocs from vendor in ASCII Format, like that:

EDI_DC 700 64 2SAPPRO LSSAPROM100...

E1EDK01 000001 DOL

E1EDKA1 000002 LF 001012323443 Fashy Co., LTD....

E1EDKA1 000003 RE YXZ Co., LTD....

E1EDK02 000008 009234255234....

E1EDK02 000009 123432432534....

E1EDK03....

E1EDK05...

E1EDK05...

.....

My Question: whehter there is an adpater or a function in XI7.0 that can input such IDoc in ASCII Format without ContentConversion?

Otherwise, I must ask vendor to provide me IDoc in XML Format.

Any hints would be appreciated!

Regards

Rene

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

There's an ABAP code provided by SAP for this purpose.

http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/index?rid=/library/uuid/46759682-0401-0010-1791-bd1972bc0b8a

Regards

[Former Member]

1. in WE21 create a file port and in Inbound file tab the directory and file name would be defined.

2. with Report RSEINB00 read the files.

[Former Member]

two things

1) you can use java mapping ...or ABAP prog as said above but - content conversion will be easier then these options.

2) if you are doing EDI scenario there are adapters available ,which will perform the task of EDI to XML conversion.

[Former Member]

Hi Jackson,

thank you for your suggestion!

Just now, I called the customer. They used seeburger adapter before. Now they can use Seeburger Adapter to read IDoc ASCII Format.

But they want to discard seeburger in the future. Therefore it is not neccessary to integrate Seeburg adapter into XI.

Have you heard anything about fileport in SAP?

Can I just transfer flatfile to SAP internal folder and SAP picks files and convert them into IDoc-Schema automatically?

Regards

Rene