SAP Gateway Configuration Guide
Once you have installed the SAP Gateway components, you must configure your system to allow the consumer servers’ applications to retrieve the data requested by users.
The SAP Gateway Configuration Guide contains the steps for customizing settings for SAP Gateway and describes system configuration activities.
The sequence of mandatory and optional configuration tasks is as follows and depends on your use case.
General Configuration Settings (mandatory)
Configuration Settings for content scenarios (optional)
Implementation Guide
The SAP Gateway specific configuration tasks are included in the SAP Gateway Implementation Guide (IMG) which is available in the system: In your SAP Gateway hub system (IW_FND) go to transaction SPRO, open the SAP Reference IMG and navigate to: 
SAP NetWeaver 
SAP Gateway 
. In your backend system (IW_BEP) go to transaction SPRO, open the SAP Reference IMG and navigate to: SAP NetWeaver SAP Gateway Service Enablement .
For all steps in the IMG there is always consumer-independent documentation available. If you want to see more information, select the Display icon before executing each step.
If you have software components GW_CORE 190 and IW_FND 240 installed in your system, the IMG tree will only offer the activities for OData Channel.
The same applies if you use SAP Gateway in SAP NetWeaver 7.40 or SAP NetWeaver 7.50 and higher (software component SAP_GWFND).
For more information, see Deployment Options.
We strongly recommend using the OData Channel (ODC) programming paradigm for all SAP Gateway development.
As of SAP Gateway 2.0 Support Package 05, you are strongly recommended to use the Service Builder (transaction SEGW) for your OData design-time development . For more information, see SAP Gateway Service Builder.
Depending on whether you want to develop SAP Gateway content in an SAP Business Suite backend system or in an SAP Gateway hub system, you can choose between embedded deployment or central hub deployment. For more information, see Embedded Versus Hub Deployment and Deployment Options.
As such, several sections in the Implementation Guide (IMG) are merely available for reference and maintenance purposes.
In the backend system this is the section in the SAP Reference IMG under
SAP NetWeaver SAP Gateway Service Enablement Generic Channel .In the SAP Gateway hub system these are the sections in the SAP Reference IMG under
SAP NetWeaver SAP Gateway Former Development .
Depending on the additional SAP Gateway components you implement, further component-specific configuration steps are required:
Screen Scraping (IW_SCS) |
For Screen Scraping you only need to configure roles based on certain authorization templates. The templates specify the authorizations for content that can be accessed by the users and activities for developers. For more information, see Setting Up User and Administrator Authorizations. |
SAP Gateway with HANA (IW_HDB) |
If you want to install the SAP Gateway with HANA component (IW_HDB), this requires SAP NetWeaver 7.02 SPS09 comprising an ABAP Database Connectivity (ADBC) installation. ADBC is an object-based ABAP API for programming relational database accesses. It follows the Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) diction in its class and model structure. |
Workflow |
You can find more information about the Workflow-related configuration activities in Configuring Workflow for SAP Gateway. In addition, the relevant IMG activities are available in the Implementation Guide in the backend system: In transaction SPRO open the SAP Reference IMG and navigate to: |
Business Process Enablement |
For the special services provided within Business Process Enablement, such as Process Service and Process Context Service, the relevant IMG activities are available in the Implementation Guide in the backend system. In transaction SPRO open the SAP Reference IMG and navigate to: |
For information on configuration settings which need to be carried out for the different consumer scenarios and applications, see Configuration Settings for SAP Gateway Supported Scenarios.