Defining a Collaboration Profile

You initially specify the units that are to be addressed as the sender or receiver of messages in the communication profile. You define communication parties and communication components for this purpose. You define communication channels to establish the technical communication paths for the communication party and the communication components. You configure the adapters for inbound and outbound processing in the communication channels.

More information: Collaboration Profile

This task involves the definition of communication components, communication channels, and (optional) communication parties.

1. Optional: Define the necessary communication parties.

   Using a communication party, you generally address a company within a business-to-business process.

   More information: Defining Communication Parties

2. Define the necessary communication components and (optional) parties.

   • To define communication components based on a landscape description in the SLD, perform the following steps:

     Logon to the SLD and define the necessary technical systems and business systems.

     More information: Describing System Landscape in the SLD

     Logon to the Integration Directory and create the necessary communication components based on the business systems in the SLD.

     More information: Defining Business System as Communication Component

     Note

     These communication components are called business system components because they are based on business systems defined in the SLD.

   • To define a communication component “from scratch” without defining the business systems in the SLD, logon to the Integration Directory and create a business component .

     More information: Business Component

   • To define a communication component to address an integration process from the ES Repository, create an integration process component .

     More information: Define Integration Process as Communication Component

3. To specify the technical communication capabilities of a communication component, you define a communication channel. You need a sender/receiver communication channel to specify the adapter to connect to a sender/receiver component.

   Note

   A communication channel provides the configuration interface for the adapter that is used to connect the communication component with the PI runtime engine.

   For an overview of the available adapters provided by SAP, see Adapters .

   1. At first, you create a communication channel in the Integration Directory.

      More information: Defining Communication Channels

   2. You specify the adapter type.

   3. You specify the configuration settings for the chosen adapter type.

      More information: Configuring Adapters