Question Re: Will the TraBI make it into the BOPF stack? in Supply Chain Management Q&A

Will the TraBI make it into the BOPF stack?

cyclingfisch_ — Tue, 13 Oct 2015 20:21:07 GMT

Hi,

I listened to the SAP Transport Management Podcast about their UI re-factoring efforts on the UI.

The features sound quite interesting. Is it planed to migrate them into the Business Suite Foundation Stack or into the NetWeaver 7.5 stack or will it only be available on a SAP TM server?

Is there any relation to SADL? What's the future for UI consumption if the UI is not based on Gateway and UI5?

Thanks and Cheers,

Martin

Re: Will the TraBI make it into the BOPF stack?

Drago — Wed, 14 Oct 2015 13:02:46 GMT

Hi Martin,

As of now, TBI is a pure SAP TM-functionality and I know of no immediate plans to bring it to a reusable layer, like Business Suite Foundation. It was designed and implemented with TM requirements in mind, and intentionally ignores some BOPF features (for performance optimization reasons). This won't be acceptable in a generally available reusable component.

For the purpose of integrating BOPF-based backend with FPM-based UIs, we already have a powerful generic engine in BS_FND - FBI (Floorplan-manager BOPF Integration), which functionally isn't at all inferior to TBI. That's why it is still used in TM (except selected use-cases, where FBI performance is not good).

FBI and TBI are intended for FPM-based UIs. However, the core of both functionalities was designed and implemented UI-agnostic - there is actually a functionality called GBI (Gateway BOPF Integration), which uses FBI artefacts (the so-called FBI views) to implement generic Gateway service. But I do not know much about it. Similarly, if the TBI implementation is written correctly, it could be used e.g. from a Gateway service implementation.

Regards,

Dragos

Re: Will the TraBI make it into the BOPF stack?

cyclingfisch_ — Wed, 14 Oct 2015 13:49:23 GMT

Hi Dragos,

Thanks for your reply. We are already using FBI. On some UIs we are facing the same issues regarding properties as described in the podcast. That's why I'm asking for it.

Cheers,

Martin