SAP ME with Azure CDC Connector

[jnagel_th]

Greetings,

is it possible to use the CDC Connector for SAP Hana systems in MS Azure to connect to an SAP ME 15.5 system?

When configuring the connector in azure a server name, system number and client number is needed.

The server name is probably the url of the ME, but what about the system number? Is this referred to an number of the ME or the hana database behind it?

Any help or informations would be appreciated.

Best Regards,

Jannes

[Ulrich_Schmidt]

Hi Jannes,

not completely sure, but it looks like SAP ME is not running on an ABAP-based application server (like R/3 or S/4), but on a NetWeaver AS Java. This means that things like "system number" and "client number" do not exist for SAP ME.

We would need more details about this CDC Connector, but if it requires system number and client number, then most probably it can only be used for connecting to ABAP-based application servers, not Java-based ones?!

[jnagel_th]

Hey Ulrich,

the connector is provided by Azure / MS and based on the CDC plattform for data transfer: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-factory/sap-change-data-capture-introduction-architectu...

Is there a alternative to extract massive amounts of data besides the CDC / HANA connector?

Best Regards,

Jannes

[Ulrich_Schmidt]

> Is there a alternative to extract massive amounts of data besides the CDC / HANA connector?

Hmm, this would need to be answered by the SAP ME experts... I see, the corresponding tag is already assigned. Let's hope it attracts their attention...!

But from the Microsoft link you specified, it indeed looks like CDC uses the RFC protocol, so is restricted to ABAP-based backends. SAP ME does not seem to support RFC, so you will probably need some HTTP-based channel to extract data from it. (Using XML, OData, JSon or whatever.)