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Preface

Intended Audience

Organization

Related Documentation

Conventions

Documentation Accessibility

1 Introduction to Oracle Application Server Integration Adapter for SAP R/3

Architecture: Oracle Application Server Integration Adapter for SAP R/3

Outbound Interactions: Oracle Application Server ProcessConnect Acting as a Client

Inbound Interactions: Oracle Application Server ProcessConnect Acting as a Server

Required Software

Supported Platforms

Postinstallation

Installing Oracle AS ProcessConnect Utility Modules in Your R/3 System

Performance Enhancement for Defining Interactions with RFC Function Modules

Performance Enhancement for Defining Interactions with ALE IDOC

Checking If the Custom Function Modules Are Installed

Importing the Oracle Application Server ProcessConnect Utility Function Modules

Copying the Files to the Transport Directory

Running the Transport Request Commands on the R/3 System

2 Defining a Delivery Channel

Adding and Configuring a Delivery Channel

Parameters Specific for RFC or BAPI

Connection Pooling

Parameters Specific for ALE IDOCs

Troubleshooting R/3 Settings

3 Defining an Interaction

Adding an Interaction

4 Using Oracle Application Server Integration Adapter for SAP R/3 Datatypes

Basic Datatypes

Numeric Strings (NUMC Type)

Fixed-Point Numeric Strings (PACKED Type)

Date and Time

Binary Data

Complex Types

Getlist Function Module

5 Using Application Link Enabling

Manually Downloading an IDOC

Frequently Used ALE Transactions

ALE Terminology

Logical System

Intermediate Documents (IDOC) Type

Message Type

Custom IDOC Behavior

AdvancedSend Versus Send

6 Retrying Inbound Calls

Using a Transactional RFC

Managing Incorrect Calls

Scheduling an Automatic Retry

Deleting a Background Job

Index