Implications of Reference System in SAP Portal

[vmadhuvarshi_]

Hello Friends,

We have a situation where 30 of our existing users have IDs exceeding 12 characters in current non-SAP system. In ECC 6.0, I believe there is a limit of 12 characters for user IDs.

As these users would be using SAP portal as their primary means of interaction with all SAP back-end systems, we are planning to keep their existing user IDs in SAP portal and creating another user ID (<12 chars) in all back-end systems (ECC/BW/CRM). We'd use ECC system as a reference system to map the userIDs.

I've a few questions regarding this approach.

-Is user mapping necessary for all portal users or only these 30 users need to maintain it?

-Is it mandatory for the reference system to be up and running all times? Should the reference system breaks down for some reason, would it hamper connectivity of all mapped users to other systems as well?

Appreciate your inputs.

Thanks,

Vishwas Madhuvarshi

[duncanspeidel · Accepted solution]

Hi Vishwas Madhuvarshi,

-Is user mapping necessary for all portal users or only these 30 users need to maintain it?

How are users authenticating against the back-end system?

-Is it mandatory for the reference system to be up and running all times? Should the reference system breaks down for some reason, would it hamper connectivity of all mapped users to other systems as well?

If the referenced system is down it will only be an issue when the user goes to an area where the back-end system presents content or data. Pure portal areas will not be impacted.

Best regards,

Duncan

[vmadhuvarshi_ · Accepted solution]

Hello Duncan,

Thanks for the helpful answer and sorry for delayed reply. To answer your queries -

1. Users are authenticating via SSO (SAPLOGONTICKET) to backend systems.
2. Would this affect only those users who have done mapping or to all users if the reference system is down?

Regards,

Vishwas.