What’s New for SAP Integration Suite – August 2024

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As usual find with this blogpost the highlights of our SAP Integration Suite increments that have been released in August:

Get ready with custom and purchased adapters for the Apache Camel 3.14 upgrade
Edit namespace for message types
Persistence in MariaDB databases
Principal propagation as authentication method to connect with on-premise systems
New parameters in SFTP and AMQP sender adapters
Inspection of content size
Diagnostic tasks in operation cockpit of Edge Integration Cell
Community integration package for extension points
Appropriate time zone in B2B monitor
Suborganizations in company profiles
Support of EDI flat-file payloads
Integration Advisor migration guide
Envelope templates for EDI messages
New version of the Process Integration pipeline concept
Adapter modules
Manage content from API business hub enterprise
Default credential type for service key

A2A integration

Get ready with custom and purchased adapters for the Apache Camel 3.14 upgrade

As the Apache Camel upgrade is happening soon, do some prerequisites to run your integration scenarios before your productive tenants are updated to the new runtime. Please upload a Camel 3.x compatible version of your custom adapters and of adapters you have purchased from other vendors to your productive tenant. A special area is available for upload. By uploading your adapters, we ensure that they will get ported automatically during the update.

With regards to OEM adapters by partners, please run the latest Camel 2.x compatible versions. An upload isn’t necessary.

To avoid any business disruption with unexpected integration flow behaviour, we recommend an upfront validation of your custom adapters. For this purpose you may leverage the free 90 days valid test tenant that already offer for quite some time. It runs on Apache Camel 3.14 where you can test your adapters and integration flows.

Ensure that also your design time has the latest version of the adapters and upload the .esa files to the appropriate integration packages. For more details, see SAP Note #3326553.

Edit namespace for message types

The recently introduced message types have been extended in the way that you can now view the namespace to which a message type belongs to and edit and create a new one. Refer the documentation.

Persistence in MariaDB databases

To support our SAP Process Orchestration customers, we have extended the Java database connectivity (JDBC) receiver adapter by supporting now also MariaDB. The adapter is available in multi-cloud environments and in Edge Integration Cell runtime for ground-to-ground integration scenarios. See the documentation.

Principal propagation as authentication method to connect with on-premise systems

You can now propagate the principal of the inbound technical user with the principal propagation authentication method in the HTTP receiver adapter. The tenant authenticates itself against the receiver by forwarding the principal of the inbound user to the Cloud Connector, and from there to the back end of the relevant on-premise system. Check out the documentation.

New parameters in SFTP and AMQP sender adapters

We have introduced new parameters in the SFTP and AMQP adapters. The SFTP sender adapter is extended by Poll on one worker only used to specify that the polling process is performed on a single worker node only. The AMQP sender adapter that is consuming messages from queues in an external message broker offers now the parameter Disable Reply-To allowing you to disable the reply back for a message.

Inspection of content size

The powerful inspect feature to analyze your resource consumption has been extended. You can now inspect the file size of all the integration artifacts (such as integration flows, value mappings, adapters) they allocate on the tenant they are deployed on. You may detect the top consumers and in case of integration flow artifacts switch also between the various inspect categories to detect the consumption of other relevant database and system resources. Refer the Inspect Content Size.

Integration in private landscapes

Diagnostic tasks in operation cockpit of Edge Integration Cell

Integration administrators can run diagnostic tasks in the operation cockpit of Edge Integration Cell. You may increase the log level configuration temporary with only few clicks, and with the Takt 2408 in September you may either trigger and view thread and heap dump on Java components. The diagnostic data can be collected on a file system and shared with SAP Support for troubleshooting. Check out the documentation.

B2B integration

Community integration package for extension points

The B2B Integration Factory integration packages are available for customers that require additional extension points and custom features that are not yet provided by the standard TPM solution. If the standard TPM solution does not cover your integration requirements, use the community packages instead.

The following packages are available:

Appropriate time zone in B2B monitor

To enhance efficiency in B2B monitoring, dates and times are now displayed according to your browser's time zone, rather than UTC. Additionally, you can easily rearrange field positions using drag and drop, and sort the columns in the interchange list. For more information, see monitor interchanges and monitor unassigned interchanges.

Suborganizations in company profiles

Within the Trading Partner Management subsidiaries are supported. You can now create and maintain suborganization profiles as children of the main company profile. They may have their own configuration requirements, such as certificates, systems, and communication channels. Check out the documentation for more details.

Support of EDI flat-file payloads

For payload XML was the only supported format by the Integration Advisor capability so far. To increase your efficiency, you can now use the text-based flat-file EDI format (used for X12, UN/EDIFACT, and Tradacoms) as well. EDI payloads can be uploaded as MIGs, and you can also use the payload during the MIG and MAG simulation. The conversion of the EDI payload into its XML representation is implicitly done by Integration Advisor. Check out all the details in the blogpost.

Integration Advisor migration guide

We have now published a migration guide for the Integration Advisor capability that details the steps needed for customer planning to migrate their design time artifacts from the Neo environment to SAP Integration Suite.

Envelope templates for EDI messages

The EDI standards X12 and UN/EDIFACT have so called envelopes that are wrapped around the actual messages. You can now define Message Implementation Guidelines (MIGs) that combine envelope and message structure and share this documentation with business partners. For the definition you can leverage envelope templates as defined by the standards. The envelope template content will be released gradually over the next few weeks, starting with UN/EDIFACT and ASC X12, followed by EDIFACT subsets and Odette. See the details in the documentation.

Migration from SAP Process Orchestration

New version of the Process Integration pipeline concept

To run your asynchronous message processing in Cloud Integration in a similar way as you do it in SAP Process Orchestration, we have introduced the pipeline concept. Now we have released a version 1.0.6 of the package with some enhancements. To offer a way to define sender wildcard scenarios we have revised the partner ID definition and support also alternative partners to overcome partner id restrictions. Another enhancement is that the receiver and interface determination can now be bypassed in pure point-to-point scenarios to improve the runtime performance. Read the very detailed blog post and see the pipeline package published at the SAP Business Accelerator Hub. And if you like to make yourself familiar check out the Process Integration pipeline sample scenarios in the GitHub repository including also a guideline how to the pipeline concept

Adapter modules

The message transformation utilities community package contains artifacts that help transforming message payloads to various formats, such as XML, plain text, CSV, and JSON. The package delivers various functionalities that once existed in SAP Process Orchestration as adapter modules. The utilities covered so far are MessageTransformBean and XMLAnonymizer.

API-managed integration

Manage content from API business hub enterprise

You can now publish selected SAP system APIs directly into the API business hub enterprise catalog, without first defining API proxies for these APIs. To accomplish this, your global account administrator first needs to register these systems in your tenant. The registered systems then appear in the manage content page of API business hub enterprise, from which you can then publish the APIs directly. See the documentation.

Default credential type for service key

In the API business hub enterprise, we've updated the default credential type for the service key. It's now binding-secret instead of instance-secret. We made this change because xsuaa has deprecated the credential type instance-secret. See more details in our documentation.

How to stay tuned to recent and upcoming innovations?

The SAP Road Map Explorer is your one-stop shop for all SAP Integration Suite innovations. You can easily check out the latest innovations and follow what is planned for the following quarters. All recent innovations also cover under the tab Features further links to blogposts or documentation.

We also refer to the complete list of new releases in our documentation: What’s New in SAP Integration Suite.

And if you have not heard of our monthly webinars, I suggest you sign up to get an invitation to the upcoming ones. Our team of Product Management experts host these webinars to showcase the latest and greatest updates regarding all SAP Integration Suite capabilities. The webinars are hosted on the last Tuesday of every month and the next one is already scheduled for September 24th.

In case you have missed our last monthly webinar, don’t worry. Visit 2024 Learning Sessions for SAP User Groups on SAP Integration Suite for all recordings, PDFs, and Q&As.

Are you aware of the Release Navigator for SAP BTP? It consolidates release information across SAP BTP products and services easing you the way to find product release related notes, blogposts, and webpages. For your convenience use the direct link to the SAP Integration Suite section of the Release Navigator.