Adapters

[Former Member]

Hi,

What kind of complications we may face (or you people faced )while using Adapters like

1.File

2.IDOC

3.RFC

Thanks

Seshu

[moorthy · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Just to add some more

1) File

- File Content Conversion problems for multiple structures in the sender side

- Reciever side , problem with content comversion for fixed field lengths

-Operating system command execution

2) Idoc

- Improper configuration of Partner profiles,Port Maintenance, Logical system problems, metdata refresh etc

- If you change the metadata in the R/3 system, then re-import the strcuture into XI and refresh the cache and also with IDX2 transaction

3) RFC

- Metadata Refresh is the problem. Many a times, you will end up with restarting the RFC adapter in the J2EE engine.

- Another runtime error may be Application Error .. this may be because of non-availability of the resource because of huge messages, data type mismatch problems or huge number of messages

- it is prefer not to use Dialog user id for the RFC/Idoc adapter configuration .. it will throw error after the expiry.

-If Program Id is not redgistered i.e in the R.3 RFC destination of type TCP/IP should be cofigured correctly..

Hope this helps,

Regards,

Moorthy

[Former Member]

Hi Seshu,

A suggestion.. Take a look at Michal's XI FAQ blog here..

/people/michal.krawczyk2/blog/2005/06/28/xipi-faq-frequently-asked-questions

You would get an idea of some of the basic problems which you are likely to face.

cheers,

Prashanth

[Former Member]

Hi Seshu,

This is a pretty generalised question

Problems I had faced when I started off..

File adapter :

Content Conversion parameters usage

UTF encoding

IDOC adapter:

Unable to convert sender service to an ALE logical system

(as far as I faced )

RFC adapter:

RFC_Application error

RFC timeouts( due to heavy message payload)

cheers,

Prashanth

[MichalKrawczyk]

Hi,

>>>>1.File

difficulties to handle many structures

- structures with lines + sublines

- with trailers and other file input which is not necessary in the messages

hard to manage big files...

>>>>2.IDOC

no issues

>>>>3.RFC

diffculties to handle big messages (many mb)

gateway errors with first XI SPs

Regards,

michal

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[Former Member]

Hi,

There is not especially complication for these 3 adapters, coz they are the most popular! and there are many documents/weblogs.

1.File => Easy

2.IDOC => Need an ALE configuration, thus it's a little more complex. And mapping will be perhaps complex, coz notion of "context" across IDoc segments: it depends of your IDoc and of your functional rules.

3.RFC => Normally with a RFC, we work in <u>Synch</u>ronous mode. For instance with a RFC like "xxx_GetDetail_Customer".

Mickael