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Prerequisites

You have to fulfill the procedure described in Creating Connections to Provider Systems .

Procedure

From the list of connections to provider systems, choose an entry, and then to activate or deactivate a connection choose Activate or Deactivate respectively.

The table below outlines the effect of the possible changes you can make to the status of a connection.

User Action

System Response

You set the status of a connection to Active .

  • The framework allows a business administrator to assign the active connection to a Service Group in an application, or in a business scenario.

  • For every consumer proxy that consumes Web services grouped in a Service Group, the system creates a logical port that has the runtime settings of the active system connection.

  • For every application that consumes remote function modules grouped in a Service Group, the system creates RFC destinations that have the runtime settings of the active system connection.

    The system creates an RFC destination for every service reference in the application.

You set the status of a connection to Inactive .

When you deactivate connections, the system considers them deleted. However, the connection and its runtime settings keep existing in the client system, and when you activate it, you can use it again.

If the connection is assigned to a Service Group, the system deletes the respective logical port of the consumer proxies that consume the services in the Service Group.

If the connection is assigned to a Service Group, the system deletes the respective RFC destinations of the applications that consume the remote function modules in the Service Group.