SAP PO to SAP CPI Migration Scenarios - EDISeperator and X400 Adapters

[NidhiSrivastava]

Hi Experts,

We have a requirement where we need to migrate B2B scenarios involving EDISeperator and X400 adapters in SAP CPI. Need to provide the estimates for the same, but I dont see a clarity on how we can move the changes as standard adapters are not present in CPI.

Please suggest or if there is any standard guide which I can refer will be helpful.

Thanks.

Best Regards,

Nidhi Srivastava

[Ryan-Crosby]

No current support for X400 but I believe it's in the roadmap. The EDI separator is not an adapter in CPI (it's a component), but there is a TPM solution delivered by SAP or other custom frameworks like the one I built for X12 that can be used.

[helmut_skolaut3 · Accepted solution]

Hi Nidhi,

for the replacement of the EDISeparator you have to setup a dispatcher iflow - where based on your decision rules you are assembling a unique string to be used as entry point of the ProcessDirect Adapter. This is based on our experience easy to be build. We basically only consider the UNB-Sender GLN and the message type.  Alternatively you can look into the TPM capabilities delivered by SAP - it gives you a very comprehensive toolset. I suggest you evaluate in both directions.

For X.400 - there is nothing. In Germany the main provider "Deutsche Telekom" is providing an AS2 gateway - i don't know what capabilities other providers have in other regions. Independent providers (e.g. OpenText, formally known as GXS) are proving gateways to X.400 network. The monthly costs are comparable with those you have to pay for your current native X.400 provider. Ask your trading partners if they also have AS2 - we most-likely are able to migrate all X.400 connections away to AS2 🙂

BR Helmut    

[Ryan-Crosby · Accepted solution]

Are you not using TPM? Just curious because it's pretty rare when I mention we are using a custom framework of our own for B2B.

[helmut_skolaut3 · Accepted solution]

We are not using TPM - neither in SAP PI nor in Cloud Integration - reason is that all our trading partners act differently - some of them have 100s of GLNs in UNB - others not - would require too many entries in TPM.

[Ryan-Crosby · Accepted solution]

We are not either, but for different reasons... bloated, overly complicated, and doesn't support key features that should be included. Not all SAP software is great software 😉