Function documentationConfiguration of Web Client (Polling)

 

Customers who have no middleware, or customers who do not allow pushing of data, can use a Web client to connect to the Billing Consolidation (FIN-FSCM-BC) component. The Web client provides a direct connection to the service provider without any middleware, such as SAP NetWeaver PI. The Web client uses an SSL connection (HTTPS) and supports authentication through the user name and password or certificates. The connection mode is synchronous with the pulling of data. For sending, the programs for processing messages are the same as those used with middleware.

Prerequisites

  • You need to have the SAP Cryptographic Library in order to have an SSL connection to your service provider.

    For more information about configuring AS ABAP for SSL support, see SAP library for the SAP ERP Central Component on the SAP Help Portal at http://help.sap.comInformation published on SAP site.

  • You have specified whether the SSL connection should be created with authentication by means of user name and password or by certificates.

    For more information on creating certificates, see:

Features

After you configure the Web client, you can use the following two reports:

  • The background program EDX_PULL pulls all messages at the service provider's end, which allows the system to exchange outgoing and incoming messages directly with the service provider. For more information, see the program documentation.

  • Transaction EDX_POLL calls a Web Dynpro ABAP application that displays a list of messages that meet your selection criteria. The list groups the messages according to their status, such as Ready for Download or Downloaded. The primary purpose of the list is to assist you in analyzing errors and in monitoring.

    You can download the messages individually or download the complete list of messages. You can display the properties of a DocumentSet message as well as its contents. You can extract and save the individual documents of a message, for example the PDF or XML output of a message. You can also change the status of a message at the service provider.

Activities

To configure the Web client, you have to make the following settings:

To check the Web client, use transaction EDX_POLL. If you receive an error message, check the trace file of the Internet Communication Manager (ICM) in transaction SMICM. Then increase the trace level to 3 and execute transaction EDX_POLL again.

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