on 06-01-2015 4:33 PM
Hello,
I have a new requirement to post Travel Expenses to an SAP FI system without using an RFC connection which is prohibited by security department
I've never done this but I know that we can send iDocs thru FTP / sFTP instead of using the RFC connection from SAP to SAP.
When you create your ALE model view, you select different BAPIs like "Creditor.find". This enable you to get some data "on the fly" from TM to FI.
In my case i won't be able to use RFC and so won't be able to "ask" FI to give me some info on request while doing the posting; like the vendor code for example.
So do you think that it is possible to copy vendor accounts, G/L accounts on TM system; and then "just" create the idocs for the posting on TM and send them to FI thru FTP ?
Have you ever seen / implemented this scenario ?
Thanks in advance for your feedback
Best regards,
Christophe.
Hi Christophe,
your approach is not practicable!
At least in SAP standard this would not be possible.
The ALE interface (as you have mentioned) check some data "on the fly" from the FI system.
If you like to transfer your data via sFTP this would not work. Also no return from the successful posting would updated the TE cluster.
This would be a custom solution on file transfer data without any status data for each trip.
BTW the RFC is common approach for all SAP customers I know. And I have done this in small, medium and for very huge SAP Travel Management implementation.
Please ask your security department what is the reason for this. Thank we can discuss in details.
Best regards, Sigi
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Hello,
I fully agree with you, RFC is standard way of exchanging between SAP. Unfortunately it is not considered secured enough because exchange are in clear and not encrypted. We have sensitive companies to manage and security is very strict
we are investigating to transform RFC request into webservice. We will have then standard RFC request to "TM" Webservice server, transformed into webservice, sent to "FI" webservice server thru HTTPS, transformed again into standard RFC request to FI. And vice versa for the answer.
So very complex connection just to "bypass" direct RFC connection
Regards,
Christophe.
Does your security department run the business? Probably not. I would question this practice of not allowing ALE, which is an SAP standard solution to move data between systems. Benchmark other companies in your area as examples and weight to your argument.
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