Connection Details for the ABAP Stack
The Following tabs of the SAP System editor must contain connection-related information if you want to connect to the ABAP stack of an SAP instance.
Setting up connection information
| Tab | Field | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Partition | Partition of the SAP system | The partition for the SAP system, the queue, and the process server. |
| SAP System | Name | The name for the SAP System can contain any combination of US ASCII letters, digits, and underscores; limited to 67 characters. This name is also used to create the corresponding SAP process server and queue. For instance, if the name of the SAP System definition is TST, then the created process server gets the name TST_ProcessServer and the queue is named TST_Queue. |
| SAP System | Description | The description of the SAP System can contain any combination of printable UTF-8 characters, limited to 255 characters. |
| SAP System | Application | The name of the Application used to group this object. |
| SAP System | RFC Connect String | RFC connection definition used to connect to the SAP System via SAP Java Connector (JCo). |
| SAP System | J2EE URL | The URL used by the BusinessObjects (BOBJ) and PI/XI interfaces for connecting to the JAVA stack of SAP NetWeaver |
| SAP System | App, server load balancing | When this is enabled, Redwood Server will balance the load across application servers. This should only be used in special scenarios, SAP NetWeaver 7.1 and higher offer better load balancing options. |
| SAP System | Job Handling | Job handling allows you to specify which jobs the job control rules should apply to. If you set it to Intercepted, only intercept by rules will be taken into account. If you set it to All, Redwood Server will attempt to apply the rules on all jobs in the SAP System. Note that if you want to just monitor jobs, this setting should be set to All. |
| SAP System | Default Job Time Zone | This field is used for detecting the time zone of the SAP instance. The default job time zone for processes submitted in Redwood Server is the time zone of the original request time. |
| SAP System | Ccms Process Definition | Default template process definition to use for generated definitions. |
Time zone data
The time zone of the SAP system is detected via the offset. If the current offset matches the current offset of the time zone specified in Default Time Zone, then Redwood Server uses that time zone when interpreting dates from SAP instances (used for Remote Start Time, for example). If the two do not match, Redwood Server uses the current offset of the SAP instance as the time zone, like GMT+,<offset>.
Setting up client/username combinations
At least one client/username combination is required and you must specify one combination as being the default.
| Tab | Field | Description |
|---|---|---|
| XBP | Client number | SAP client number as a three digit number. |
| XBP | Username | The RFC user name. This user needs certain authorizations in the SAP System, as described below in the Reference section under Required Authorizations of the Remote System User. Of course it is possible to use here the same user as for XAL and XMW. In this case the user needs all authorizations required by these interfaces. |
| XBP | Password | Password of the RFC user. |
| XBP | Check Connection Settings | Allows you to check that the RFC Connect String, Client Number, Username and Password are correct. |
| XBP | Enabled | Allows you to disable the client, keeping the settings for future use |
| XBP | Default client | Specify if this client is the default client. The default client is used by the SAP process server for the standard connection to the SAP System to start/monitor/intercept jobs. Please make sure that only one client is marked as default. If the default client check box is selected in multiple XBP interfaces, the one with the lowest client number is used by default when required. Yet to avoid confusion it is better to ensure that only one client is designated as default client. |
| XBP | Audit level | The XBP audit level of the interface, and is an integer with the value range of 0-3, with higher numbers denoting more verbose audit level; only to be used when Redwood Support instructs you to do so. The audit log is visible via SAP transaction RZ15. |
| XBP | SAP language | The language that the SAP process server uses to connect to the SAP System. This is also the default step language for ABAP jobs, if the corresponding parameter in the process definition is left empty. |
| XBP | Description | the description to use for this rule. If the description is not set, the rules are named <Client number>/<Username>. |
| XBP | Max. RFC connections | Specifies how many RFC connections the SAP process server opens for this client. If omitted, the number of connections are not limited. The SAP process server uses internally a connection pool, so the open connections are reused, and also closed if they are idle for a certain amount of time. |
| XBP | Interface version | The version of the XBP interface that the SAP process server should use. If this field is left on automatic, the highest available interface version is used. Note that older 7.0 SAP releases will report the highest version as being XBP 2.0 although XBP 3.0 is available. It is highly recommended to upgrade to the latest Support Package, or at the least Support Package 14. |