How to Configure SAP BAPI Connector as a Business Service in Cloud Data Integration

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Step 1. Create an SAP BAPI connection

Create an SAP BAPI connection to make a BAPI/RFC call to the SAP system for BAPI data integration. To create an SAP BAPI connection, select the

SAP BAPI

connection type. You can use the SAP BAPI connections in mappings and

mapping

tasks.

Click

Administrator

Connections

, and then click

New Connection

to create a connection.

The

New Connection

page appears.

Enter a name for the SAP BAPI connection.

Connection names are not case sensitive. Connection names can contain alphanumeric characters, spaces, and the following special characters:

_ . + -

Enter a description for the connection.

The description can have a maximum length of 255 characters.

Select

SAP BAPI

as the connection type.

Select the name of the runtime environment where you want to run the tasks.

Select

BAPI Connection

as the authentication method.

Enter an SAP user name with the appropriate user authorization.

Enter the SAP password.

Enter the host name or IP address of the SAP system that you want to connect to.

Enter the SAP client number.

Enter the language code that corresponds to the language used in the SAP system.

Enter the SAP system number.

If you want to enable tracing for the BAPI/RFC call, select the

Jco Trace

check box.

Even if you define the Trace parameter in the

SAP Additional Parameters

field, you must select the

Jco Trace

check box to generate the trace file.

Specify the additional SAP parameters that the Secure Agent uses to connect to the SAP system as an RFC client.

For example, you can define the following load balancing parameters. SAP identifies the connection type as load balancing based on the defined GROUP and MSHOST parameters and uses those attributes for load balancing.

GROUP=interfaces
MSHOST=<Message server hostname>

Here, the GROUP parameter defines the group name of the SAP Application Server and MSHOST defines the hostname of the SAP Message Server. For more information about SAP parameters that you can specify, see the SAP documentation.

If you configure a parameter in both the

SAP Additional Parameters

field and the other fields in the connection, the values in the

SAP Additional Parameters

field override the values specified in the connection property fields.

Optionally, to commit data to the SAP system with each BAPI/RFC call, enter

DOCOMMIT=true

in the

SAP Additional Parameters

field.

Click

Test Connection