SAP Account Requirements

An SAP account is required to connect to the SAP system to communicate with the plug-in.

Before configuring the plug-in at design time, ensure that your SAP account and your SAP system meet the following requirements:
  • Your SAP account has access to a dedicated SAP application server and has permission to extract metadata for BAPIs, RFCs, and IDocs by using TIBCO Business Studio.
  • Your SAP account has authorization from the SAP system administrator to execute RFCs and access tables in the SAP system.
  • If you want to use different connections between design-time and runtime inbound activities, obtain the relevant connection information.
  • If you want to configure a load-balanced inbound activity, obtain the parameters used to connect to a messaging server for a specific logon group from the SAP Connection shared resource.
  • Your SAP account can successfully execute the RFCs listed in the following table by using the transaction code SE37 in your SAP GUI with the provided test data.
    Remote Function Call Test Input Data
    IDOCTYPES_LIST_WITH_MESSAGES PI_RELEASE = R/3 System, System Release

    PI_APPLREL = IDoc Development: Application Release of Segment Definition

    IDOC_READ_COMPLETELY DOCUMENT_NUMBER = IDOC number
    RFC_GET_STRUCTURE_DEFINITION_P TABNAME = E1MARAM
    RFC_FUNCTION_SEARCH FUNCNAME = * (or name of any RFC/BAPI)
    RFC_GET_FUNCTION_INTERFACE_P FUNCNAME = <name of any RFC/BAPI>
    DDIF_FIELDINFO_GET Run transaction SE37.

    This transaction is to retrieve Data Dictionary metadata from the SAP system.

Note: IDocs/RFCs/BAPIs specific to a particular language cannot be retrieved if you log on to the SAP system from the SAP GUI or TIBCO Business Studio with a different language.