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BEA eLink Adapter for R/3 ALE User Guide

 

What You Need to Know

e-docs Web Site

How to Print the Document

Documentation Conventions

 

Introducing BEA eLink Adapter for R/3 ALE

BEA eLink Solution Overview

BEA eLink Adapter for R/3 ALE

SAP R/3 Environment Integration Issues

BEA Enterprise Application Integration Solution

Key Benefits

Business Applicability and Scalability

Architectural Overview

Integrating Applications with R/3

TUXEDO ATMI

FML32 Field Definitions

 

Integrating with ALE

ALE Integration

Usage Scenarios for ALE Integration

Integrating R/3 and Non-R/3 Systems

Communicating Among R/3 Logical Systems

Information Flow for ALE Integration

Key ALE Concepts

Intermediate Documents (IDOCs)

Transaction IDs (TIDs)

Processing eLink-to-R/3 IDOCs

eLink-to-R/3 Server

eLink-to-R/3 Services (CR3_SUBMIT and CR3_IDOC_IN)

FML32 Field Definitions for eLink-to-R/3 IDOCs

Information Flow for eLink-to-R/3 IDOCs

Splitting eLink-to-R/3 IDOC Packets

Managing Transactional Integrity for eLink-to-R/3 IDOCs

About the TID Log File Used for eLink-to-R/3 IDOCs

Processing TIDs with eLink-to-R/3 IDOCs

Handling Problems with eLink-to-R/3 IDOCs

Processing R/3-to-eLink IDOCs

R/3-to-eLink Server

Information Flow for R/3-to-eLink IDOCs

Splitting R/3-to-eLink IDOC Packets Into Individual IDOCs

Queuing R/3-to-eLink IDOCs Into Multiple Queues

About the Destination Mapping Variables in the Environment File

Examples of Using Destination Map Settings

Managing Data-Dependent Routing (DDR)

Load Balancing High Volumes of R/3-to-eLink IDOCs

Registering Multiple Program IDs

Managing Transactional Integrity for R/3-to-eLink IDOCs

About the TID Log File Used for R/3-to-eLink IDOCs

Processing TIDs with R/3-to-eLink IDOCs

Handling Problems with R/3-to-eLink IDOCs

 

Preinstallation Tasks

Determining the Installation Node

eLink Platform (TUXEDO) Requirements

 

Installing BEA eLink Adapter for R/3 ALE

Installing on a UNIX System

Creating the conr3 User

Logging In as con3

Running install.sh

Installing on a Windows NT System

 

Configuring ALE Integration

Configuring the eLink-to-R/3 Server

Configuring the UBB File for eLink-to-R/3

Defining the eLink-to-R/3 server (cr3alein)

Defining eLink-to-R/3 Services

Setting Environment Variables for eLink-to-R/3

Environment Variables for eLink-to-R/3

Sample Environment File for eLink-to-R/3 (cr3alein.env)

Setting Up the eLink-to-R/3 Connection to R/3

Configuring Queues for eLink-to-R/3

Specifying the TID File for eLink-to-R/3

Splitting eLink-to-R/3 IDOC Packets Containing Multiple IDOCs

Configuring Logging for eLink-to-R/3

Configuring the R/3-to-eLink Server

Configuring the UBB File for R/3-to-eLink

Defining the R/3-to-eLink Server (cr3aleout)

Setting Environment Variables for R/3-to-eLink

Adapter Unique ID Variable

Server Connection Variables

R/3 Client Connection Variables

Other Required and Optional Environment File Variables

Generic Configuration Variables

Configuration Variables for Destination Mapping

Configuring Queues for R/3-to-eLink

Setting the Default Data-Dependent Routing Value

Splitting R/3-to-eLink IDOC Packets

Specifying the TID File for R/3-to-eLink

Configuring Logging for R/3-to-eLink

Configuring Load Balancing for R/3-to-eLink

Configuring Multiple Program IDs

Generating a Transaction Log

Configuring Queues

TUXEDO Queues

Using the cr3_queues Makefiles to Add Queues

Setting Up Queues for eLink-to-R/3 IDOCs

Defining the TMQUEUE and TMQFORWARD Servers in the UBB File

Setting Environment Variables

Setting Up Queues for R/3-to-eLink IDOCs

Configuring the TID File Manager

Command Line Options

Running the TID File Manager

How the TID File Manager Works

Shutting Down the BEA eLink Adapter for R/3 ALE

 

Configuring R/3 Connections

Configuring eLink-to-R/3 Connections

Configuring the sideinfo File

Contents of the sideinfo File

Sample Settings

Specifying the Location of the sideinfo File

Configuring R/3-to-eLink Connections

Troubleshooting Connection Problems

 

Sample Configuration Files

cr3_ale.ubb for UNIX

cr3_ale.ubb for Windows NT

setenv_ale.sh (UNIX)

setenv_ale.bat (Windows NT)

 

Configuration Quick Reference

Configuration Quick Reference for UNIX

Configuration Quick Reference for Windows NT