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Creating a Logical System for Business Content Integration

Before PowerCenter can consume business content data, define PowerCenter as a logical system in SAP.

You can create a single logical system in SAP for business content integration with PowerCenter. If you use multiple PowerCenter Integration Services, each PowerCenter Integration Service must use the same connection for the RFC server program in the

sapnwrfc.ini

file.

Informatica provides an ABAP program named /INFATRAN/ZINFABCI that creates or deletes the logical system in SAP for business content integration. The ZINFABCI ABAP program belongs to the /INFATRAN/ namespace reserved by Informatica in the SAP system. The ZINFABCI program performs the following steps in SAP when it creates the logical system:

Finds the logical system name of the SAP system.

Creates a unique IDoc type for business content integration.

Creates a logical system for PowerCenter.

Creates an RFC destination for PowerCenter.

Creates a tRFC port for the RFC destination.

Creates a partner profile with outbound and inbound parameters required for business content integration.

Registers the logical system with the business content integration framework.

A logical system uses an SAP user account to perform background tasks within SAP, such as activating DataSources, preparing data for transfer to PowerCenter, and extracting data. The PowerCenter Integration Service initiates these tasks in a session.

When you create a logical system, you need to choose a background user. Choose the default background user or a different background user. The default background user is ALEREMOTE. It is the default user name for ALE partner profile and the system level background user used in IDoc communication.

When you choose a different background user, use one of the following options:

Select an existing SAP user account.
When you select an existing SAP user account, the ABAP program updates the user account with the “S_BI-WX_RFC - Business Information Warehouse, RFC User Extraction” authorization profile. This authorization profile is required to perform background business content tasks within SAP.

Enter a new SAP user name and password.
The ABAP program creates the user account profile with the “S_BI-WX_RFC - Business Information Warehouse, RFC User Extraction” authorization profile only.

When you connect to SAP to create a business content integration processing mapping, use the logical system user name.

After you create a logical system for business content integration in SAP, you must configure a connection for an RFC server program registered at an SAP gateway in the

sapnwrfc.ini

file. Set the DEST and PROGRAM_ID parameters equal to the logical system name as configured in SAP for business content. The default name is INFACONTNT. You will use the value you set for the DEST parameter when you configure application connections.

For example:

DEST=INFACONTNT
PROGRAM_ID=INFACONTNT
GWHOST=salesSAP
GWSERV=sapgw00

After you create a logical system for business content integration in SAP, you must configure the gateway host and gateway services for the RFC destination that you created for business content integration. To configure the gateway host and gateway services, on the SAP server machine, go to transaction SM59. Click the

Technical Settings

tab and enter the gateway host name and gateway service name in the

Gateway Options

section.

Defining PowerCenter as a Logical System in SAP

Creating the Logical System

Configuring Unicode Mode

Deleting the Logical System Created for Business Content Integration

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