sapevt is an SAP provided program. You can use it in a shell script if you have a reason to do something with your data, post translation, prior to processing it into SAP. It works well in place of startrfc. (As mentioned, you use sapevt to trigger an event which will cause a job to run in SAP based on that event. That job can contain rseinb00 followed by rbdapp01 to do SAP standard EDI inbound processing).
Ken ----- Original Message ----- From: Hurd, Richard [SLCUS] To: 'Narayanan Bharadwaj' ; edi list Sent: Friday, December 22, 2006 1:47 PM Subject: RE: [EDI-L] NFS mount vs RFC. If you are not using ALE to send data into SAP, the only other thing besides RFC I could think of is to write your own BAPI to bring the IDocs in. We have a mechanism where we have to pull legacy data -- it's not IDocs -- and we have the legacy systems send a file over along with a trigger file when the FTP's done (to ensure we don't get fragments.) We use Tivoli to schedule a shell script. The shell script loops through the trigger directory, and if it finds a trigger file, it archives the data and then calls a utility called sapevt. Within SAP you need to configure an event using sm62 and connect it to the BAPI that you wrote. Then when your shell script calls that event at the unix level, the event 'fires' and the BAPI runs, pulling the data in and doing whatever you want with it. It sounds difficult, but it's not when you get it all running. Bear in mind that I only have about 8 months or so of SAP experience right now, so there may be other, more elegant solutions. :) -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Narayanan Bharadwaj Sent: Friday, December 22, 2006 1:20 PM To: edi list Subject: [EDI-L] NFS mount vs RFC. Hi all, we are newly implementing SAP. We are using NFS mount between our EDI server (Inovis) and SAP server. So, the EDI data is readily available in SAP and we are able to run RSEINB00 to post the IDOcs. Now if we were to automate this process -is RFC the only way? what does startrfc exactly does? - copies/moves files from one server to another? or just triggers an action in SAP or both?? Also, we are planning to have a "record" of our activity on our EDI/SAP interface. Because we want to track the flow of data between Inovis and SAP and also it will benifit us to resarch any issues with Idocs. To accomplish this, what would be the best option we have (remember , we are not using ALE) Thanks in advance for your suggestions. Have wonderful holidays!!! NB. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ... Please use the following Message Identifiers as your subject prefix: <SALES>, <JOBS>, <LIST>, <TECH>, <MISC>, <EVENT>, <OFF-TOPIC> Job postings are welcome, but for job postings or requests for work: <JOBS> IS REQUIRED in the subject line as a prefix. Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ... Please use the following Message Identifiers as your subject prefix: <SALES>, <JOBS>, <LIST>, <TECH>, <MISC>, <EVENT>, <OFF-TOPIC> Job postings are welcome, but for job postings or requests for work: <JOBS> IS REQUIRED in the subject line as a prefix. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
