IDOC - collaboration agreements

[Former Member]

Hey friends,

For IDOC to file : do i need to create sender agreement ? ( i think No becoz IDOC sits on ABAP stack of IS)

For File to IDOC : do i need to create receiver agreement ?

could anyone clear this to me ?

thanks

manish

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Yes you do need a receiver agreement

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Why do we need to configure the receiver agreement ?

If I am not wrong then in case of proxy you dont need either of agreement to be created while developing the interface.

Can anyone explain this to me

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

because XI needs to know where to send the IDOC. Receiver agreement needs to show the RFC destination SAP system , port etc. Unless XI know these things it cannot send message to correct SAP system

--Archana

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thanks for your reply , could you explain collaboration agreements

for proxy as well as IDOC.

I know what needs to be created for which interface but i couldnt understand the reason behind that

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Receiver agreement is done to define how the message is to be transformed so that it can be processed by a receiver.

In case of SAP receving the IDoc it need to be converted from IDOC -XML structure to native IDoc.

Henc ewe need to do receiver agreement

Bipin

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

<i>>>>If I am not wrong then in case of proxy you dont need either of agreement to be created while developing the interface.</i>

In case of sender proxy, you're right, a sender agreement is not required. But for receiver proxy, it is. XI technical routing doesn't know which adapter channel (including XI adapter) to use without a receiver agreement. Channel is specified only in the receiver agreement and it is the receiver agreement that is configured in the Interface Determination.

Also, Sender/Receiver agreements are used for additional configuration settings. For example, a sender agreement for proxy is not required in most cases. However, when configuring security settings (e.g. message level security), a sender agreement is required for sender proxy as most of the message level security settings (e.g. which certificates to use, etc.) is configured here.

Regards,

Jin

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thanks everyone for your prompt reply, I appreciate for everyone's time

[Former Member]

Hi Manish -

For IDoc, you don't need a sender agreement. See here for when Sender Agreements are required: http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/b1/f29e7a56e18a439984a3c6630951d2/frameset.htm

You always need a receiver agreement for any scenario for the outbound binding (e.g. which adapter channel to use, etc.).

Regards,

Jin

[Former Member]

Yes, You are right manish. For IDOC adapter, you dont need sender agreement but you need receiver agreement irrespective of whether the sender is file or jdbc or JMS or http.

--Archana