Conversion Agent (Enhanced) 

Function Is	Changed
For Release	Software Component ●      Component: SAP NetWeaver ●      Release: 2004 ●      Support Package: 20
Assignment to Application Component	BC-XI-CON
Country Setting	Valid for all countries

Use

The Conversion Agent now has the following additional functions:

●      The Conversion Agent now supports the following 64-bit platforms:

○       AIX 5.3 (in out-of-process mode)

○       HP11.23 PA-RISC (in out-of-process mode)

○       HP11.23 IA-64 (in out-of-process mode)

○       Solaris Sun 10 (in out-of-process mode)

Upgrade of an earlier Conversion Agent version for the above-listed platforms is not supported. Uninstall the old Conversion Agent installation first, then install the new version.

●      New library versions are available for the following industry standards:

○       AL3 - Summer 2006

○       Swift - SRG 2006

○       EDI - X12V5R3

○       Validation for EDI

Two versions are provided for EDI X12 (v5030 and v4010) with EDI validation. The parsers of these versions validate elements and structures in the EDI message. The XML output of these parsers is changed slightly to include EDI error codes for elements or segments with errors.

●      The following new document processors are available:

○       Excel2DataXML

Only extracts data from Microsoft Excel workbooks and ignores formatting information. This document processor can process large Excel files and is useful when formatting information is not relevant for the transformation.

○       Excel2XML enhancement

Protected worksheets in Microsoft Excel are now supported.

○       API additions

A new .Net API is provided. It provides the same calls as a Java or C++ API and can be used in the .NET environment, for example for a C# application.

●      ICU (International Components for Unicode)

This version uses the ICU library v3.2 to support more code page conversions and date and time format standardizations.

The following transformers and actions have been added:

○       DateFormatICU (transformer)

○       DateAddICU (action)

○       DateDiffICU (action)

●      IntelliScript enhancements

○       Sort

You can sort recurrent XML data structures by various fields.

○       Variable initialization

You can initialize variables with values in the definition.

●      You can use an installation of the engine with different configurations on the same machine.

More information: Conversion Agent Release Note

●      Information about processing COBOL data is available.

More information: Processing COBOL Data in Conversion Agent