Adapters (Enhanced) 

Technical Data

Function Is	Changed
For Release	Software Component ·        Component: SAP NetWeaver ·        Release: 2004 ·        Support Package: 14
Assignment to Application Component	BC-XI-CON BC-XI-CON-TAD BC-XI-CON-SAD BC-XI-CON-AFW-PCK
Country Setting	Valid for all countries

Use

Adapter-Specific Message Properties in the Message Header

Some adapters support specific message properties, which contain additional information about messages. This information is contained in additional message header fields.

The properties can be used in mapping and routing. You can display them in monitoring.

See also: Adapter-Specific Message Properties in the Message Header and Mappings (Enhanced).

Further Adapter Parameters

The following adapters now have additional parameters:

·        IDoc Adapter

It is now possible to get the sender and receiver of a message from the payload.

See also: Configuring the Receiver IDoc Adapter

·        RFC Adapter

The RFC adapter supports Secure Network Communications (SNC).

In the receiver adapter you can specify the commit control for individual BAPI calls.

See also: RFC Adapter, Configuring the Receiver RFC Adapter

·        SAP Business Connector Adapter

The sender SAP Business Connector adapter gives you the option of extracting data from an external message protocol and using it to assemble the header of the XI message.

See also: Normalization in the Sender Adapter.

The message protocol IDoc-XML is also available.

See also: Configuring the Receiver SAP Business Connector Adapter and Configuring the Sender SAP Business Connector Adapter.

·        File/FTP Adapter

In the sender file/FTP adapter, you have the option of using an additional placeholder to specify the source file. An advanced source-file-selection option is also available.

See also: Configuring the Sender File/FTP Adapters.

In the receiver file/FTP adapter, it is now also possible to initially write to a temporary file for the transport protocol file system. You can specify a name schema here, if required.

See also: Configuring the Receiver File/FTP Adapters.