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I was recently contacted by a customer using the SAP Adapter. They were using the Adapter directly via a WCF proxy (i.e., without using BizTalk) from within an ASP.NET application. Their complaint was that the throughput was very low. On investigating
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When using the SAP Adapter, while receiving an IDoc, you might see the error message "Loading property information list by namespace failed or property not found in the list" in the event log. Cause: The SAP adapter is writing the IDoc control record
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You must have read in the documentation that the SAP adapter does not support/honour the timeout values specified on the binding (sendTimeout, openTimeout, etc). However, at times you might yet receive timeout related exceptions from the adapter. Why?
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This is in continuation to the previous post, where we discussed the differences in the XML structure used by the old SAP adapter and the new WCF SAP Adapter. In a transactional scenario, the old adapter uses the context property named 'ConnectionType'.
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We have written a custom pipeline component (code and sample projects using this pipeline component are attached) that you can use to make your BizTalk orchestrations calling RFCs and BAPIs written with Microsoft BizTalk Adapter v2.0 for mySAP Business
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Attachment(s): AdapterPipelineComponent.zip
The two most common questions I get from customers using the SAPBinding: I execute a BAPI (via the generated WCF proxy) from a .NET application. However, after the call returns, I see that many table parameters are null. I am trying to execute a BAPI
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There are two ways the adapters belonging to Adapter Pack can be used by SQL Service Integration Services: 1. Using ADO layer built on top of base adapters. This option is available with SAP and Siebel adapters. 2. Writing custom SSIS task which directly
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Attachment(s): SsisSiebel.zip
I'm not going to give you numbers - instead, I'll give you an easy way to generate the numbers in your environment. Attached is a VS 2005 Solution which you can use for testing. Have a look in the Program.cs file. The code is pretty self-explanatory.
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Attachment(s): PerfSapAdapters.zip
You might have observed that in outbound scenarios, for example while calling an RFC, if something goes wrong, an exception is thrown to the user. This does not happen in the same manner for inbound scenarios, for example when receiving an RFC or an iDoc.
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Firstly, let me explain the common customer scenario using the old (mySAP 2.0) Adapter (NOTE - points in red and green below highlight the similarities/differences in configuration): The user, at design time, uses a high privilege account (let's call
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In the November CTP, a new binding property has been added to the SAPBinding - "EnableSafeTyping" (a boolean) When this property is true, DATS, TIMS and NUMC fields are exposed as Strings, and any value can be passed back and forth between the client
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The SAP Adapter exposes a "generic" Send call which can be used to send any Idoc. In the Metadata SearchBrowse UI, this operation is visible as "SendIdoc" under the Idoc node. The signature for this operation is SendIdoc(string idocData, Guid guid) The
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Attachment(s): SendIdocSample.cs
The RFC SDK supports the ABAP_DEBUG option, which allows you to break into the RFC ABAP code when invoking an RFC from your application. The SAP Adapter and the SAP ADO.NET Provider also expose this setting. The main advantage of this - consider this
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The adapters constituting the BizTalk Adapter Pack are fundamentally custom WCF binding elements. Built on the WCF LOB Adapter SDK, these adapters are host agnostic i.e. they are not tied to a specific product like BizTalk. However, their predecessors,
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The SAP Adapter supports SAP SNC Authentication. For this, you need to have the SNC libraries present. You can download them by following the steps outlined below: Log in to SAP Service Marketplace . Under the SAP Support Portal section, click on the
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