Integration Developer’s Corner

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Want to know about the latest and greatest product updates and features enhancements of SAP Cloud Integration? Then, our developer's corner is your one stop shop!

Here, you will learn everything about the new features in SAP Cloud Integration, focusing on usage with all the 5 W’s & 1 H answered – why do we need this feature, when and where should this be used, what problem is it solving, who can use this and how should this be used with common mistakes to be avoided. All this and more, described with real-life examples by our product team and developers who built it.

Also newly introduced to our Developer's corner is a series of blogs from our Customer Success Team who work closely with SAP application teams for building their integration content as well as co-innovate with our customers are partners. Blogs from our customer success team will provide you insights on how complex and real integration use-cases can be achieved with the product.

This is an effort from our side to help our community users to be abreast with the monthly product enhancements and is complementary to our product documentation.

The section will features blogs covering enhancements in various aspects of the product like tooling, runtime, connectivity via the numerous adapters, B2B capabilities etc and will be regularly updated with the blogs on newer capabilities released.

Connectivity Newer capabilities in the adapters to make it more secure and reliable.	How to setup a secure SFTP connection Using Poll-Enrich with SFTP Adapter How to use RFC adapter to execute remote function module on ABAP system How to establish secure connectivity to on-premise mail server  How to Setup Secure Outbound HTTP Connection using Keystore Monitor How to Setup Secure Inbound HTTP Connection with Client Certificates Configure Asynchronous Messaging with Retry Using JMS Adapter How to configure Session Handling in Integration Flow  How to provision Message Broker How to configure Dead Letter Handling in JMS Adapter Batch Operation in OData V2 Adapter How to setup and use the Partner Directory Partner Directory – Partner Dependent XML Structures and IDs Secure connectivity with the cloud connector How to develop your custom adapter Partner Directory – Sender Partner Connecting with Client Certificate Authentication Partner Directory – Partner Dependent User Credential Selection Partner Directory – Mass Configuration Know the JMS Resource and Size Limits Checks in JMS Message Queue Monitor How to configure Transaction Handling in Integration Flow How to Perform Upsert Operation using SuccessFactors Soap Adapter Batch Request with multiple operations on multiple entity sets support in OData Adapter How to send mail from Cloud Integration using the SAP Cloud Platform service “Live Link for IN365-Em... How to Fetch Delta Record from SuccessFactors using SuccessFactors Soap Adapter How to configure Retry Handling in SuccessFactors OData V2 Adapter How to configure SOAP Adapter – Web Service Security Learn all about the process direct adapter OData V2 Query wizard Configuring SAP AS4 Receiver Adapter for Australian Taxation Office XI Sender Adapter  XI Receiver Adapter  Adapter API for Adapter Development How to use WSDLs in the SOAP Adapter AS2 Sender Adapter with Best Effort Quality Of Service (QoS) OAuth2 Client Credentials Support in OData V2 Adapter Principal Propagation with SuccessFactors OData V2 Integration Flow Extension Using ProcessDirect Adapter OData V2 Headers Propagation and Response Body OData V2 Function Import Configuring Explicit Retry in Exception Sub-Process for XI Adapter Scenarios Encrypted and/or Signed Mails in Mail Sender Adapter Usage of XI Adapter in Send and Request-Reply Step Principal Propagation to SCP-Cloud Foundry Applications Enable Certificate Based Authentication in Custom Adapters Configuring JDBC Adapter OData V4 Outbound Adapter How to Connect to an On-Premise sftp server via Cloud Connector  Configuring ID Mapping in XI Receiver Adapter Configuring Scenario with XI Sender handling Multiple Interfaces Enhanced Pagination in SuccessFactors OData V2 Outbound Connector Headers whitelisting in OData V2 Outbound Connector Working with AS4 adapter  A Simple Demo Scenario Using the JDBC Adapter Usage of the Elster Adapter How to create a sample integration scenario using Open Connectors Adapter Sending Signed and/or Encrypted Mails in Mail Receiver Adapter Accessing and Setting SOAP Headers in an Integration Flow Sending Signed and/or Encrypted Mails in Mail Receiver Adapter Connecting to Messaging Systems using the AMQP Adapter Developing Custom Adapters to access On-Premise systems  SAP Enterprise Messaging and SAP Cloud  Integration (Pub/Sub Pattern) Connect CPI with Your On-Premise Mail Server Search Operation in LDAP Adapter Access an On-Premise Database Using CPI How to Connect to an Amazon MQ service using the AMQP Adapter Dynamically Configure the SFTP Receiver Adapter  Connecting to FTP(S)-servers using the FTP Adapter Using Apache Camel Redis component as SAP Cloud Integration Adapter Connecting to MongoDB server from SAP Cloud  Integration using Camel MongoDB component Apache Camel Community adapters usage in SAP Cloud  Integration Using the JDBC Adapter to Implement a Robust Scenario that Handles an Exception Connect to Microsoft 365 Mail with OAuth2 Kafka Adapter in Cloud Integration OAuth2 SAML Bearer/X.509 Certificate Authentication Support in SuccessFactors Connector  Prinicpal Propagation to Backend ABAP System using RFC Monitoring Polling Status in Kafka Sender Adapter Single Sign On to Open Connectors in SAP Integration Suite with Azure AD (custom IDP) Principal Propagation from Cloud Foundry to Successfactors System Setting SOAP Fault Messages for a SOAP based Sender Channel Exactly Once setup for IDoc and XI receivers Inbuilt Retry option for HTTP Receiver Adapter How to Connect to an On-Premise AMQP server via Cloud Connector Single Sign On to SAP Cloud Integration (CPI runtime) from an external Identity Provider  Cloud Integration: Advanced Event Mesh Adapter, Client Certificate, AEM  Cloud Integration: AMQP Adapter, Client Certificate, Solace PubSub+ [4]: iFlow  Cloud Integration: AMQP Adapter, Client Certificate, Solace PubSub+ [3]: Solace Config  Cloud Integration: AMQP Adapter, Client Certificate, Solace PubSub+ [2]: Certificate Chain  Cloud Integration: AMQP Adapter, Client Certificate, Solace PubSub+ [1]: Intro  New Release Available: SAP Cloud Connector 2.17.0
Developer Efficiency Aid Integration Developers to address non-functional aspects like resource consumption, performance, and reliability.	Using Integration Suite Piper commands in GitHub Actions (CI/CD) platform  To avoid Binding Variables in Groovy Scripts Stream the XMLSlurper input in Groovy Scripts How to Guard Against Huge Messages Avoid Storing Payloads in the Message Processing Log IP whitelisting incoming requests into cloud integration How to Avoid Excessive Storage Load Caused by MPL Attachments for Message Logging  Automated Notification for Critical or Exhausted JMS Resources Bookmarking Artifacts How to encrypt/decrypt XML payload with AES256-CBC and RSA Algorithm Usability and development productivity improvements in webUI  Enhanced User Experience with Context-Sensitive Help External Version Management of Artifacts using GIT Handling Large Data with Content Enricher and OData v2 adapter Optimizing Memory footprint of your integration flows Receive Notifications for Failed CPI Flows via Any Channel with Alert Notification Connecting CPI with SAP HANA service using XS Odata approach  Managing extension to standard content through Custom Exits Making SAP SuccessFactors and SAP Cloud  Integration more reliable and performant Integration Flow improvements – Example Flow using Datastore Designtime Artifact Locks in SAP Cloud Integration Daylight Savings in SAP Cloud Integration CI/CD for SAP Integration Suite Reuse of message mapping Working with Integration Suite Piper commands SAP Cloud Integration Supporting further Exactly Once Scenarios Integration with SAP Master Data Integration (MDI) service OData API in SAP Cloud Integration for Beginners SAP Integration Suite - Design Guidelines in the integration flow editor of SAP Cloud Integration
Tooling Enhancements to integration modeling in the web application.	Managing Integration Flow Resources Externalizing parameters Message mapping simulation Product Profiles Behavior of new Splitter version Message mapping support with multiple output functions New and Improved web UI Integration flow editor How to add resources to your Integration flow in the web UI Versioning & migration of components of an Integration Flow  Customized Scheduling for integrations “Stop on Exception” for Iterating/General Splitter Learn how to manage your integration flow "problems" Grouping Option of Iterating/General Splitter Learn about the usage of Splitter in Local Process Importing Message Mapping from ES Repository to Cloud Integration Finding fields in Message Mapping CSV import support in Value Mapping Multi Mapping support in Message Mapping Accessing existing Headers via Content Modifier & Write Variables Message mapping display queue Principal Propagation to SAP Cloud Platform (Neo) Applications Working with XML Validator Integration flow copy Using Parallel Processing in General and Iterating Splitter Usage of General and Iterating Splitter with Exception Handling Search in Message Mapping Editor XSLT Mapping is enriched with XSLT 3.0 specification  Add Child entities to already created entities with OData Adapter Integration Splitter pattern in CPI Filter component is enriched with XPath 3.1 capabilities Payload structure for SuccessFactors Upsert in CPI Enrichments of Externalization Feature OData Service in CPI with $expand and deepInsert Copy Message Mapping Download and Upload of Message Mapping Integration Flow Simulation Custom Tags ZIP and Compress Capabilities: Encoder, Decoder, Splitter, Aggregate Access Policies: Defining Roles on Artifact Level Access Policy for securing design artifacts in Cloud Integration designer Reusable script collection Flow Step Recommendations Integration flow simulation in the edit mode Swagger/OpenAPI Spec JSON in Message Mapping Configure Multiple Integration Flows “Revamped” Integration Flow Editor in Web Application Simulate Integration flow with various types of body files Import and Export PGP Secret Key – Change PGP Secret Key Password  Copy and Paste feature in the Integration Flow Editor Copy & Paste of Multiple Flow Steps Within & Across Integration Flows-Part 2 Deep dive into Content Modifier “Settings” for Message Mapping Dynamically assign and execute Message Mapping Artifacts in Integration Flow (SAP Integration Suite) Advanced Scheduler Configuration User Propagation in Transport Cloud Integration: Manually Encrypt/Decrypt XML payload based on XML-Enc Standard  SAP Cloud Integration: Understanding the XML Encryption Standard  SAP Cloud Integration: How to call DocuSign from iFlow: Authentication  SAP Cloud Integration: Understanding the XML Digital Signature Standard  Cloud Integration: Manually Sign / Verify XML payload based on XML Signature Standard  Create DataType and Message Type artifact in Cloud Integration capability of SAP Integration Suite  Contextual Help for SAP Integration Suite
Operations and Monitoring Enhancements to integration content monitoring, message monitoring and more.	Setting the Log Level for Message Processing Audit Log in Web UI Monitor Renewal of SAP owned keys in Keystore Monitor Automated Notification of Keystore Entries Reaching Expiry How to enable Trace for Message Processing How to download system logs Troubleshooting Message Processing in Cloud Integration Enhancements to Message Processing Log Viewer New Visualization for Adapter Endpoints of Integration Artifacts Enabling Tracing of Exchange Properties in MPL Mark MPL enteries upon select on a Flow Step in the Integration Flow  Automated Notification for Client Certificates Reaching Expiry How to maintain notification contacts for SAP Cloud  Integration System Landscape considerations for On-boarding Cloud Integration and Enterprise Messaging FAQs Error Forwarding from SAP Cloud Integration to SAP S/4HANA Cloud Message Monitor Error Forwarding from SAP Cloud Integration to SAP S/4 HANA On-Premise SAP Application Interface Fra... Downloading CPI Connections Report Usage Analytics Malware scanner in SAP Cloud Integration Deployment status in the Integration Flow Editor Central monitoring of integration scenarios using SAP Cloud ALM Centralized health monitoring of SAP Cloud Integration using SAP Cloud ALM (part II) Principal Propagation in SAP Integration Suite Inspecting and Understanding Resource Consumption of your Integration Content Interactive Reporting Dashboard for SAP Cloud Integration using SAP Analytics Cloud
SAP Cloud Integration ADK Ability to build extensions using the developer kit.	Extension of runtime capabilities using Blueprint Metadata in Cloud Integration SDK Enabling Certificate Based Authentication in Custom Adapters Custom Adapter(ADK) Readiness for New Runtime Integration Suite – Developing Custom Adapters with IDE of Your Choice Integration Suite – Versioning a Custom Adapter
OData provisioning Developing and managing OData services.	OData Service Project vs Integration Project: A comparison OData Service in $batch Mode OData Service in CPI for Beginners From OData Provisioning (Cloud Foundry) to SAP Integration Suite Overview of OData API Documentation
B2B capabilities Enhancements enabling B2B integration.	Update on B2B capabilities B2B blog series- 1 : AS2 inbound scenario B2B blog series- 2: AS2 scenario with message compression, signing and encryption Working with Number Ranges Activating and Managing Enterprise Messaging Capabilities ( AS2, JMS and XI Adapter) SAP Trading Partner Management and B2B Monitoring B2B Scenarios in SAP Integration Suite for TRADACOMS EDI Standards
Self-services Empowering users to manage their own integration.	Keystore Monitor for Tenant Administrator  Backup and Restore of Keys and Certificates using Keystore Monitor JMS calculator
Transport Learn about the content transport mechanisms	Transport using CTS+ Content transport using CTS+ PART I Content Transport using CTS+ PART II  Integration content transport using the Transport Management Service (Beta) How to transport using Transport Management Service (Beta) The new cloud-based Transport Management Service Setting up SAP Cloud Platform Transport Management for CPI
Running Cloud Integration content in Process Orchestration Cloud Integration content re-use in SAP PO	Best practices and Overview Enhancements in content deployment  Trouble shooting cloud integration content on Process Orchestration How to configure Web Service Security (WSS) between CPI SOAP adapter and the SAP PO SOAP adapter
Integration Advisor Crowd-source based machine learning approach for much faster and more efficient B2B integration.	Learn all about the Integration Advisor Learn all about B2B/A2A standard libraries and type systems in ICA Create a customized interface using MIG editor Create a mapping using MAG editor  The importance of customized codelists in MIGs Quickly create your individual code value mappings in MAGs List of Provided Type Systems Overview of components and further reading The importance of customized codelists in message implementation guidelines (MIGs) Latest B2B/A2A Libraries for creating and maintaining your customized interfaces and APIs SAP S/4 HANA and Ariba’s cXML type system/type system libraries now available at Integration Content... How can I customize and generate Message Implementation Guideline hard-copies GS1 EANCOM Library available in Integration Advisor Functions at target side – Ordinal number for line items and segment count Mapping element functions for comparing nodes and values Mapping element functions, the use of xsl:copy, xsl:copy-of, xsl:sequence, or xsl:value-of List of supported XSLT elements and XPath functions Overview of components for building B2B integration content and further reading MIG Qualification based on multiple Qualifiers MAG: How to create If-Then-Else Statements in Mapping Elements Integration Advisor – Extended semantic validation options for MIG structures GS1 Global Codelists Library are now available Integration Advisor – new versions for B2B Libraries cXML, ASC X12 and UN/EDIFACT  Integration Advisor – GS1 XML Messages and Namespace Support Integration Advisor – change in namespace handling of root node Integration Advisor – New version 2302 for S/4HANA Cloud SOAP Messages  Restoring the hierarchical order of a flattened source message via the pre-transformation feature in... Integration Advisor – new versions for S/4HANA SOAP APIs and for B2B Libraries cXML, ASC X12 and TRA... Integration Advisor – Tradacoms Message Standard  Integration Advisor – extended support for Custom IDocs
Cloud Integration APIs OData APIs in the SAP API Business Hub	Cloud Integration OData API on API Business Hub   Remote OData API’s for Integration Flows OData API for accessing the service endpoints
Enabling Consumption based model Learn how to enable Cloud Integration for consumption based pricing model or pay per use.	Self-service enablement of Cloud Integration service on consumption-based commercial model (pay per ...
Software Updates Learn all about the update process	Updating SAP Cloud Integration  Delay software update to safeguard the productive Integration Suite tenant
Low code/ API based development	Route-Through Integration Flow generation based on APIs from API Business Hub in Cloud  Integration Step towards Building API Based Integrations Call Microsoft Graph API with OAuth 2.0 Authorization Code Send Mail via Microsoft Graph API with OAuth 2.0 Authorization Code
What's New Announcement and News	SAP Cloud Integration is Now Available on Cloud Foundry (CF) SAP Cloud Integration Troubleshooting Guide News and Announcements SAP Integration Suite Simplification Customer Test Service & Preview Tenant Provisioning and Upgrading a Free Tier Tenant SAP Integration Suite Free Tier is Now Available on SAP BTP! Next release of the Cloud Connector is available: 2.16.0 What’s New for SAP Integration Suite – August 2023 What’s New for SAP Integration Suite – September 2023 Introducing SAP Business Accelerator Hub Domains Edge Integration Cell: Hybrid Integrations with Integration Suite What's New for SAP Integration Suite - January 2024  What’s New for SAP Integration Suite – February 2024  Relaunching Integration Suite, Advanced Event Mesh – Repackaging Summary  Announcement: Hybrid Integrations with Integration Suite  Graph: new in SAP Integration Suite  A glimpse at our product strategy for Application Development, Automation and Integration  Next-gen hybrid integration with SAP Integration Suite & Edge Integration Cell - Introduction & Setu...  SAP PI/PO migration? Why you should move to the Cloud with SAP Integration Suite!  SAP Recognized as a Leader in 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for iPaaS  Information Map – Introduction Series: Graph in SAP Integration Suite  What’s New for SAP Integration Suite – Spring 2024  Harness the Power of Generative AI for Enterprise Automation!  API Anomaly Detection in SAP Integration Suite  Cloud Integration with SAP Integration Suite - The Comprehensive Guide: New Book Edition Released  What’s New for SAP Integration Suite – June & July 2024
Cloud Integration on Cloud Foundry	How to Setup Secure HTTP Inbound Connection with Client Certificates Enable SAP IAS (Identity Authentication Service) as Custom IdP for Basic Inbound Authentication in C... Getting Grips on your Cloud Integration Migration from Neo to Cloud Foundry
Integration Flow Guidelines	Integration Flow Design Guidelines for CPI Enterprise Integration Patterns :Scatter-Gather Enterprise Integration Patterns : Splitter Enterprise Integration Patterns: Content Filter Enterprise Integration Patterns: Content Enricher Enterprise Integration Patterns: Recipient List Enterprise Integration Patterns: Content-Based Routing Enterprise Integration Patterns : Aggregator Enterprise Integration Patterns : Composed Message Processor Latest Integration Flow Design Guidelines for CPI – shipments in Q1 & Q2 2020 Integration Flow Design Guidelines for Exactly Once Scenarios
Integration Suite	Integration Suite – Simplified Onboarding and Provisioning Kickstart your Integration Suite experience with the launchpad SAP Integration Suite Trial Accessing Cloud Integration Runtime How to seamlessly upgrade your tenant to a higher service plan SAP Continuous Integration and Delivery for SAP Integration Suite Artifacts Exploring API Portal and API Business Hub Enterprise APIs of SAP Integration Suite SAP Integration Suite – Availability of a common & coherent User Interface to work with various capa... Cloud Connector Update Auto layout to beautify Integration Flow in the Cloud Integration capability of SAP Integration Suit... Graph: new in SAP Integration Suite SAP Integration Suite : Consuming Message Types in Message Mapping Flow Step SAP Integration Suite – Using MessageType artifact to create Message Mapping in Cloud Integration SAP Integration Suite – Import PI/PO Function Library into Cloud Integration SAP Integration Suite – Import PI/PO DataType and MessageType objects into SAP Cloud Integration SAP Integration Suite – Access Policies for Integration Packages  Supporting Multiple API Gateways with SAP API Management – using Azure API Management as example
Migration of Integration artifacts from SAP Process Orchestration to Integration Suite	Moving integration artifacts from SAP Process Orchestration to Integration Suite (Blog series- includes link to migrate channels, certificate, message, value and operation mappings) Migration tool in Cloud Integration Capability of SAP Integration Suite Automatically assess your migration from SAP Process Orchestration Systems to SAP Integration Suite ... Enablement guide for SAP Integration Suite Migration Assessment Capability Migration templates improvements Latest migration assessment and migration tool features
Alerting and Notifications	Monitoring tools for Cloud Integration Alerting for Cloud Integration
Migration from SAP Cloud Integration (fka CPI) to SAP Integration Suite	Upgrading to SAP Integration Suite for the Multi-Cloud environment How do you upgrade to SAP Integration Suite (Part 2) How do you upgrade to SAP Integration Suite (Part 3)
Event driven Integration	SAP Event Mesh: Trial to be retired Connect Cloud Integration with Azure Event Hubs SAP’s Event-Driven Ecosystem Revisited Launch of the Advanced event mesh Turn your ERP into a Team Player: Introducing SAP Integration Suite, advanced event mesh A Perfect Wave: Event Driven Business Architecture Enterprise Event Enablement: Troubleshooting  A Natural Choice: SAP AIF can now expose events to Advanced Event Mesh to power your EDA  Meet your new friend EMIS: Event Mesh in SAP Integration Suite  SAP S/4HANA Cloud integration with SAP Integration Suite, Advanced Event Mesh  Configure SAP Integration Suite, Advanced Event Mesh Distributed Tracing  SAP Integration Suite – Generative AI based Integration Flow Generation
Edge Integration Cell	Edge Integration Cell – Introduction & Setup Edge Integration Cell - Design, deploy and manage APIs FAQs on Edge Integration Cell
Pipeline Concept in Cloud Integration	Introducing the new pipeline concept in Cloud Integration  Applying the pipeline concept for an interface split scenario with order at runtime flag set  Applying the pipeline concept for an interface split scenario with multiple receiver message types  Applying the pipeline concept for an interface split scenario with one receiver message type  Applying the pipeline concept for a point-to-point integration scenario  Applying the pipeline concept for a multicast integration scenario  Applying the pipeline concept for an integration scenario in general  Latest Pipeline Concept enhancements: Custom error handling and others

You can also find some of our recommended best practices to develop and manage your integration content published here .

Additionally you can search for how to guides or Knowledge Base Articles (like good old SAP Notes) to find answers to some of the questions or problems faced here .

Hope you find this helpful to stay up-to-date and for developing and running your integration scenarios using SAP Cloud Integration!!