Maintain Communication Parameters for Data Transfer 

Use

The user of the Supplier Workplace can use this function (transaction: ISAUTO_SICBC) to define an http address and define further communications parameters for data transfer when using any business process that involves the printing of a document.

If you enter this data, the system reacts in two steps:

·        The Business Connector, if defined and set up correctly, creates a routing rule.

·        The SAP System creates an EDI partner agreement especially for this purpose in the background or modifies an existing agreement.

For both steps, the system uses the default values that you have defined for the process in Customizing, under Materials Management → Supplier Workplace → Default Values for Data Transfer, Inbound orDefault Values for Data Transfer, Outbound.

 

This function only supports the business processes for which a valid port, which creates a connection to the Business Connector, has been entered in Customizing. If you do not want particular processes to be offered as options in the function for maintaining the routing rules, enter the value Dummy in the Recipient Port field in Customizing when maintaining the default values for these processes. This ensures that the process is not offered as an option when you maintain a routing rule.

The recipient port also determines which Business Connector is used to define the routing rule for each process and to display the rule in the Web transaction.

Prerequisites

In Customizing, you have maintained the inbound and outbound parameters for the Business Connector. See Data Transfer Using "http Post".

Procedure

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       1.      In the Workplace, choose Maintain Communication Parameters for Data Transfer (or the description that you have given the function).

The Maintenance of Routing Rules screen appears.

       2.      If you have already maintained rules, choose Display.

Under Routing Rules you see a list of all rules that have been created already. You can use the Display Options to restrict this list.

The list contains the following information:

Direction: describes the direction of the communication.

Group: the business processes of the Supplier Workplace are put into business groups.

Sender: the manufacturer’s system. The manufacturer is the operator of the Supplier Workplace.

Receiver: the ID of the supplier, that is, the user of the Supplier Workplace.

Application: short text for the individual business processes.

URL: http address to which the data is transferred.

HTTP User: user that the supplier uses when logging on.

Delete: if you choose Delete, the routing rule is deleted both in the Business Connector and in the partner agreement in the ERP System.

       3.      To create a new routing rule, you enter an existing URL, the corresponding user and the password.

       4.      To create the new rule, choose Update.