Displaying System Error Descriptions 

There are two ways to display descriptions (long texts) of system errors in the Integration Engine (including all system errors in pipeline services).

Querying Long Texts in the Integration Engine

To query long texts for system errors in the Integration Engine, first select XML messages with errors, and then select the message you want from the list displayed and choose Further Information on Error.

The error text is displayed in the performance assistant, together with the error code and the error short text. If no error text exists for an error, the system displays the following message:

No description exists for this system error.

Querying Long Texts Using a Web Browser

To query long texts on system errors using a web browser, for example, from a Java tool, use the special HTTP service ERRORINFO. You access this service using a URL with corresponding parameters.

The system then displays the error long text in HTML format in the Web browser.

Use the following URL to access the HTTP service for displaying error texts:

http://<host>: <port>/sap/xi/errorinfo?code=<category.id>
&p1=<parameter_value>
&p2=<parameter_value>
&p3=<parameter_value>
&p4=<parameter_value>
&language=<language>

Make the following specifications for the individual parameters in the URL:

Parameter	Specification
code=	Category and ID (columns in the table SXMSSYERR in the Integration Engine)
p1=	Value of error parameter 1
p2=	Value of error parameter 2
p3=	Value of error parameter 3
p4=	Value of error parameter 4
language=	Language, for example EN for English

The values for the individual parameters and the language are located in the error header of the message that contains errors.

Example

http://us0050:1081/sap/xi/errorinfo?code=PROTOCOL.IDOC_ADAPTER.GENERIC
&p1=aa
&p2=bb
&p3=cc
&p4=dd
&language=EN

Web Access Error Messages

If no long text exists for a pair consisting of category and ID (entry in the table SXMSSYSERR) that exists in the system, the system displays the following error message in HTML:

No description exists for this system error.

If no corresponding pair consisting of category and ID (entry in the table SXMSSYSERR missing entirely) exists at all, the system displays the following error message in HTML:

Error code does not exist