XI30 handling of IDOCs basics

Dennis Kropp,
SAP SI AG

IDOC adapter prerequisites/notes

this documentation provides information about receiving IDOCs (sender channel)

and

creating IDOC receiver channels to send IDOCs to SAP R/3 systems receiver means that an IDOC is send TO a SAP R/3 system sender means IDOCs are received FROM a SAP R/3 system Prerequisites for using the IDOC adapter are maintaining the R/3 system that sends/receives the IDOCs in SLD and configure sending/receiving of IDOCs in R/3 system Note that the logical system name for your business system that you define in SLD must be the same name like in the corresponding SAP system (see TA: scc4 to check ls name ) you cannot define a sender IDOC channel in directory due to the fact that the IDOC adapter does not run in J2EE AF but is an built in adapter so XI automatically receives IDOCs via XI pipeline URL To configure a complete roundtrip you could define a receiver channel where the message is send to Routing rules and sender has to be specified as for any other channel in the directory object model

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Example : Header of IDOC in SAP system

header of IDOC to be send check within TA: we19 for existing IDOCS

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Example : Header of Inbound IDOC in XI

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Example : steps in XI IS system to receive IDOCS

define a R/3 RFC destination within TA: sm59 to SAP sender system this connection refers to the SAP sender system that sends the IDOCs you need a user with RFC authorization in this system to log on

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Example : steps in XI IS system to receive IDOCS

define a tRFC port within TA: idx1 on your IS system this port refers to the created RFC connection the port must have the same name like the sender port in IDOC control header is used to get the meta data for the incoming IDOC; needed to convert the IDOC format into XI message format

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Example : Import IDOC structure into IB repository

if a mapping between IDOC structures is needed, first import IDOC structures into repository therefore etc/services, on your J2EE host, must contain entries for sapgw and sapms ports of the system you are importing from right click Imported Objects under your SWCV in IB repository

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Example : Imported IDOC structure

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Example : send IDOC to SAP system

same preparations as for sender channel (receive IDOCs) are needed

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