The SAP Application Interface Framework presents IT personnel with various options for configuring the runtime and checking the system state.
The SAP Application Interface Framework provides IT personnel with a menu of Customizing activities to facilitate interface set up. It enables you to reuse interface building blocks (structure mappings, value mappings, checks, and actions), which you and your colleagues have created, over multiple interfaces. You can set up flexible authorization rules and assign the relevant business users to monitor interfaces and to handle errors. You have reports and options for analyzing the operation of the system. Integration with eCATT enables automatic testing.
Application Interface Framework for IT Personnel
The above graphic shows the typical activities for IT Personnel when using the SAP Application Interface Framework:
The system is initially configured by defining the error handling application and the trace levels (see Initial System Configuration).
Security is configured by the Customizing of authorizations, for example, to limit access to monitoring and error handling by business users (see Configuration of Security and Authorizations).
Interfaces are created and documented to enable the accurate and reliable transfer of data (see Interface Creation, Interface Builder, SIW Support, IDoc Structure Generation and Interface Definition, Interface Documentation Maintenance, and Status Handling).
Monitoring and error handling is set up by:
Defining recipients
Assigning users
Optionally creating parameter transactions
Maintaining engines depending on the interface technology you use
For more information, see Maintenance of Users and Recipients, Parameter Transactions, and Technology Support.
System operations can be analyzed continuously (see System Operations).
Reports are provided for the following:
To detect and correct data inconsistencies (see Data Correction)
To create and display error statistics snapshots (see Generation and Display of Snapshots)
The SAP Application Interface Framework enables you to do automatic testing using eCATT (see Test Automation with Extended CATT).
To access Customizing for SAP Application Interface Framework
, in the SAP Easy Access menu, choose or use transaction code /AIF/CUST
. For more information about individual Customizing activities, see the Customizing documentation.