Activities to be performed in XI.

[Former Member]

Hi,

We have planed to connect MDM and CRM via XI. I am new to XI and MDM.

I wanted to know, what activites are performed typically in XI ?

What are associated Tcodes?

[Former Member]

Hi Satababu,

About Transaction codes:

To integrate CRM system and XI system, we have some transaction codes.

1) To create RFC destination in CRM system or XI system , Use transaction code sm59

If you are sending BDOC from CRM system,Create RFC destination in CRM by giving

destination system(XI) ip address and host name.

If you are sending BDOC from XI system,Create RFC destination in XI by giving destination

system(CRM) ip address and host name.

2) We need to create port to integrate CRM and XI using Tcode idx1

When we create port name , give RFC destination name which you created earlier.

Similar to above if CRM system is on the source side then create port in CRM, otherwise

create port in XI.

3) To monitor the messages flow, we can use RWB (Run Time Workbench) of XI or we can use

SXMB_MONI (TCODE) in XI.

When you come to XI and MDM integration, i don't think we have Tcodes .

Using communication channel through file adpater XI puts the file in the MDM server by giving

path of location in communication channel.

Similar case in MDM and XI integration, XI pick up the file which is located in MDM server.

For better understanding , go through below blogs.

/people/harrison.holland5/blog/2006/11/27/mdm-syndication

/people/harrison.holland5/blog/2006/12/20/xi-configuration-for-mdm-integration--sample-scenario

/people/harrison.holland5/blog/2007/01/22/testing-and-monitoring-an-interface-between-mdm-xi

/people/balas.gorla/blog/2006/09/27/mdm-xi-r3-integration

/people/sriram.vasudevan3/blog/2005/09/01/mdm-55-data-distribution-using-sap-xi

/people/balas.gorla/blog/2007/02/05/r3-xi-mdm-outbound-scenario

/people/kamaljeet.kharbanda/blog/2005/09/14/sap-netweavercomplete-information-integration-platform

Hope it helps,

Reward points,if found useful.

Cheers,

Narendra.M

[Former Member]

Hi Sata Babu,

XI/PI is a middleware used to exchange information between 2 SAP\Non SAP systems. For CRM-XI-MDM integration you need:

Consolidation:

How CRM system will send data to XI?

CRM basically maintains data in internal tables and Bdoc, but bdocs are not supported in XI, so some possibilities are:

1. Use MDM generic extractor standard contents to integrate CRM-MDM.

2. Convert Bdoc into Idoc and send it to XI.

3. Extract data using RFC, or an abap report and send it to XI.

4. Use abap proxies to trigger data form CRM side.

What will XI do?

Ans: XI will take data in the sending format from CRM, we generally use xml files, but you can send in csv, xml, flat files etc to XI, they will be processed in xml into XI as it only understands xml.

In XI you will develop 2 data types one for source means CRM file structure and one for target means for MDM repository.

similary you need to message types and interfaces etc..:

see these threads for proxy to file scenario:

/message/5191120#5191120 [original link is broken]

Similary search on exchange infrastructure forum for the scenario, you will use.

This is the link where you can see what XI can do?

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/14/80243b4a66ae0ce10000000a11402f/frameset.htm

See for the IR and ID part.

Tcodes: sxmb_ifr> view IR, ID, SLD, sxmb_moni>see the payload, sproxy>generate proxy, sxda_tools>to post the file on XI server, al11-->to check the files created/deleted or not.

for more details please see that link.

BR,

Alok

Edited by: Alok Sharma on Apr 24, 2008 3:01 PM