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| vnpotluri |
 Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 1:32 pm Post subject: MQ Capabilities with SAP |
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Hi -
We are planning to implement MQ as middleware between third party data translation software and SAP R/3. We would like to know whether MQ is capable of triggering "startRFC" executables , any custom scripts etc etc after we drop a message in queue. We are new to implement MQ with SAP and any suggestions on compatibility/risks is greatly appreciated.
Thank you so much
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| jefflowrey |
| Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 2:07 pm Post subject: |
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MQ is capable of triggering.
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| fjb_saper |
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What you are really after is some additional product like SAP adapter or if you restrict yourself to ALE, MQ-Link for R3...
You can also build your own using the SAP-JCO and the additional classes for idocs -- all provided by SAP free of charge if you have an SAP implementation....
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| vnpotluri |
| Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 6:46 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for the kind replys. My translation software is offering a SAP adapter using SAP JCO library files .. However the licensing for that adapter it self is pretty much high. If we implement MQ, I guess we can use the same for message transfers between vairous other applications as well. If we can invoke startRFC executable via MQ, then probably spending money on MQ could be worth as it solves so many other problems. Does any one implemented anything similar to this with SAP/MQ? any further help is greatly appreciated. Thanks again
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| fjb_saper wrote: |
What you are really after is some additional product like SAP adapter or if you restrict yourself to ALE, MQ-Link for R3...
You can also build your own using the SAP-JCO and the additional classes for idocs -- all provided by SAP free of charge if you have an SAP implementation....
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| fjb_saper |
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We do SAP ALE both with MQ-Link for R3 and with SAP-JCO....
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| vnpotluri |
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will there be any limitations on message size, & number of triggers? Is there any documentation on net that can help me in configuring MQ-Link for R3? any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you
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We do SAP ALE both with MQ-Link for R3 and with SAP-JCO....
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| jefflowrey |
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| will there be any limitations on message size, |
Yes. 104857600 bytes.
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| & number of triggers? |
Yes, the amount of triggers that the resources available on your server can support.
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| vnpotluri |
| Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2007 10:47 am Post subject: |
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This helps ... Thank you so much 
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| vnpotluri wrote: |
| will there be any limitations on message size, |
Yes. 104857600 bytes.
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| & number of triggers? |
Yes, the amount of triggers that the resources available on your server can support. |
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| Nigelg |
| Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 10:14 pm Post subject: |
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Somewhat irritatingly I put an answer on the other post asking this question.
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| vnpotluri |
| Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 5:31 am Post subject: |
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My apologies for posting same question in two threads. Thank you so much for your time. I went through the documentation. However, I am littlebit confused whether we need to purchase SAP ADAPTER provided by MQ for this or whether we can trigger a custom executable that does the "startRFC". We do have an working executable and we are planning to use the same if possible. Also, is there any way to increase the message size? I guess 100MB is pretty much less for the EDI transactions we deal with. How do MQ route the SAP status messages? We can append message ID for IDOCS but I am not sure whether we can provide this message id for SAP STATUS messages. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
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| Somewhat irritatingly I put an answer on the other post asking this question. |
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| fjb_saper |
| Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 2:12 pm Post subject: |
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Well if your files are huge you may be better suited to the batch FTP process with SAP Idoc file load utilities.
Typically the MQ message contains one Idoc only (Atomic transaction) and is more geared towards near real time than batch.
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| vnpotluri |
| Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 12:51 pm Post subject: |
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I belive we might need to do batch idocs. What happens if we get a message more the 100MB? will it truncate the message? or make it into two pieces? How is that going to behave? Also, is there any limitation on length of message id in MQ 5.3? Thanks again for all your kind help
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Well if your files are huge you may be better suited to the batch FTP process with SAP Idoc file load utilities.
Typically the MQ message contains one Idoc only (Atomic transaction) and is more geared towards near real time than batch. |
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