Thanks Christopher for clearing that up for me! (And sorry for replying to you and not the list serve by accident.) I know that this is a SAP DB list serve, but would I be right in saying that the ITS middleware would be used to access the SAP RFC API (this language drives me crazy) to reliably transfer the data?
-Grant
>From: Christopher Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "Spradl ." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: SAP DB Uses
>Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2003 23:04:20 -0500
>
>Martha Stewart called it a Good Thing when"Spradl ." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> > Hi everyone, I am an Information Sciences and Technology student at
> > Penn State University. For one of my classes I am working on a
> > project for the US Army and Marine Corps that will be sending light
> > armored vehicle (a small tank that has a driver, gunner and room for
> > 6 marines) data from a database into SAP using some middleware. We
> > were advised to investigate ITS to do this, but we feel as if this
> > is not the middleware we want. Would SAP DB be an appropriate API to
> > do this (move data from an ODBC database into SAP)? Also, could this
> > be done online using Web DBM. I am very new and inexperienced with
> > SAP, so any information that you could provide would be much
> > appreciated.
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>ITS doesn't sound like the right answer, but SAP DB is not an API; it
>is a relational DBMS just like Oracle, Sybase, DB/2, and such.
>
>Writing data directly to the SAP database is the sort of thing that is
>/strongly/ disrecommended. SAP application servers do a lot of
>caching of data, and writing straight to application-controlled tables
>risks the application not being aware of changes, which can't possibly
>be a good thing.
>
>You might want to look into RFCs, known as Remote Function Calls,
>which allow you to write code in C, C++, Java, Perl, or Tcl, and call
>functions in the R/3 system. THAT could certainly be used to reliably
>copy data in.
>
>Depending on how you structure the arguments, that might push data in
>either one row at at time, or perhaps several at a shot. Doing this
>in a manner that provides both decent reliability and decent
>performance is, well, the "classic problem of RPC."
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