Redwood BPA Select Option Parameter not Populating in Temporary Variant

[Dallas1]

Hi,

I am trying to submit a program from BPA using a temporary variant, and calculating a date parameter (S_DATE) as from the previous month 11th day to current month 10th day.

In the job definition, I define SEL_S_DATE as a In/String, calculated at runtime, with the expression:

=Time.format(Time.expression(Time.now(),'subtract 1 month set day 11'),'yyyyMMdd') + ' - ' + Time.format(Time.expression(Time.now(),'set day 10'),'yyyyMMdd')

I have TEMPORARY_VARIANT set to "Y". The Definition was copied from SAP_AbapRunPrintExt. I want it to use the default selection screen, with the exception of populating the S_DATE field as described above.

When I submit the definition, the parameter doesn't populate, it instead is left as the default value when running the report.

When I view the parameters, I can see that SEL_S_DATE was correctly calculated as "20190411 - 20190510" (Without the quotes), but this doesn't make it to the temporary variant.

I'm not getting any errors in BPA or ERP, and no short dumps, no authorization failures.

I've tried using System_DynamicTrace with jobservice, connector, and jobfile = debug, but can't find any errors related to this parameter transfer to SAP.

Does anyone have any further ideas?

Thanks!

[gmblom · Accepted solution]

Thanks Dallas,

Sorry for pondering over this for a couple of days. Indeed, the transports are not required anymore if you have an SAP system that is up to date.

You can disable the usage of the Redwood transports by adding Process Server parameter SAP_UseTransports with value 'false' on the SAP Process Server. Then restart the Process Server to make the parameter active.

Regards Gerben

[Dallas1 · Accepted solution]

That seems to have solved it! Thanks Gerben!

I couldn't find much documentation about this parameter... is there any negative impact to setting this parameter to "false" on all of our SAP Process Servers?

Thanks again,

Dallas