What is Business System

[Former Member]

Hi All,

Can u give me answers to this questions.

on XI what are these?

Netweaver

q1. what is SLD ? not description the work of SLD?

q2. what do u mean by creating Technical Systems and assigning it to Business System ? why we do that?

q3. one message is there in EDI Format and it has to be sent to 6 different systems. what is the method u prefer to transfer the message.

q4. What is done internally in File adapter ? what will happen?

q5. What is Adapter

regards,

Kareem.

khajaansar@rediffmail.com

[Former Member]

1.SLD (sYSTEM Landscape Directory) is a central repository of information about systems and softwares in the data center.

-so talking about the working of an SLD, here if any information is required for the integration server regarding the systems(logical or physical) and the softwares(installed products) it refers to the SLD.

-to tell you about the other features it has....it captures the dmensions of the system landscape like solution dimesion,transport dimension and technical dimension.

-putting it in short XI IS A CLIENT OF SLD

2.technical system is correlates the software to the physical host on which it is installed.

-they are actually the basis for defining the business systems.

-we assign a technical system to a busines system to help the SLD make the appropriate assosiation.

-the software products used by the business system are got from the technical system definition.

-to note 1 technical system can have more than one business system asssigned to it....and as told the SLD make the appropriate assosiation between them.

3.i would ask u to use graphical message mapping to send one message to 6 diff systems....i presume that EDI MESSAGE FORMATS are business documents like tax returns and invoices(am i right )

-incase you want to send it to 6 systems based on some condition you can check for that also in the receiver determination.

5.to put it in short adapter is used to convert any type of file format into xml format.this is the basic need of an adapter.

4.we can have either a sender or receiver file adapter........but to give you an idea in general...

-The file adapter enables you to exchange data with the Integration Server or by means a FTP server.

The file contents can be sent to the Integration Server unaltered. If the data contains Comma Separated Values (CSV), it can first be converted into a simple XML message. This XML message is then forwarded to the Integration Server.

-Conversely, file content coming from the Integration Server can be put unaltered into a file or converted from XML format.

[Former Member]

Hi Karimulla,

Ans 1) SLD is your System Landscape Directory.It is the central information provider in a system landscape and contains component and landscape information.

Ans 2)A business system is a way of specifying a service in the Integration Directory more precisely (business system service).

Technical systems are those in which the hardware of the system is specified in more detail (server data, and so on).

Ans 3)For adapters,

please refer to http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/0d/5ab43b274a960de10000000a114084/content.htm

thanks and regards,

Prash

[justin_santhanam]

Hi Kareem,

The solutions for all your questions is available in

http://help.sap.com,

any way i will explain, the things known to me...

<b>SLD,Technical,Business System</b> http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04s/helpdata/en/43/01ea90ab24235de10000000a1553f7/frameset.htm

<u>Adapter</u>

An adapter is a device used to match the physical or electrical characteristics of two different things so that a connection may be made between them. (Formal Definition)

<b>XI Adapter:</b>

i)An XI Adapter enables compatibility between the XI IS and the App System.

ii)The main theme of XI is to integrate heterogeneous system, adapters are the enabling technology to do this.

iii)Adapters converts messages from the XI Protocol to the respective protocol “spoken” by the app system and vice-versa.

<b>File Adapter</b>

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04s/helpdata/en/ee/c9f0b4925af54cb17c454788d8e466/frameset.htm

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04s/helpdata/en/0b/9a50465ccf84479e39a6d50c90fb3f/frameset.htm

Regards,

JJ