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  1. Preface
  2. Part 1: Introduction to SAP Connector
  3. Part 2: SAP Connector administration
  4. Part 3: Connections
  5. Part 4: Data integration using BAPI/RFC functions
  6. Part 5: Data integration using IDocs
  7. Part 6: SAP BW data extraction
  8. Part 7: Data integration for SAP ADSO
  9. Appendix A: SAP data type reference

SAP Connector

SAP Connector

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SAP IDoc Reader connection properties

SAP IDoc Reader connection properties

To read SAP data through the IDoc interface, select the
iDoc Reader
 connection type and configure the connection properties.
The following table describes the SAP IDoc Reader connection properties:
Property
Description
Connection Name
Name of the connection.
Each connection name must be unique within the organization. Connection names can contain alphanumeric characters, spaces, and the following special characters: _ . + -,
Maximum length is 255 characters.
Description
Description of the connection. Maximum length is 4000 characters.
Type
IDoc Reader
Runtime Environment
The name of the runtime environment where you want to run tasks.
Select a Secure Agent or serverless runtime environment.
Destination Entry
Required. DEST entry that you specified in the
sapnwrfc.ini
 file for the RFC server program registered at an SAP gateway. The Program ID for this destination entry must be the same as the Program ID for the logical system you defined in SAP to receive IDocs.
Code Page
Required. The code page compatible with the SAP source. Select one of the following code pages:
  • MS Windows Latin 1. Select for ISO 8859-1 Western European data.
  • UTF-8. Select for Unicode data.
  • Shift-JIS. Select for double-byte character data.
  • ISO 8859-15 Latin 9 (Western European).
  • ISO 8859-2 Eastern European.
  • ISO 8859-3 Southeast European.
  • ISO 8859-5 Cyrillic.
  • ISO 8859-9 Latin 5 (Turkish).
  • IBM EBCDIC International Latin-1.
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