Sun Adapter for SAP ALE

Table of Contents

Adapter Features:
External System Support/Dependencies:
SAP Support Matrix:
Upgrade Considerations:

Description

The Sun Adapter for SAP ALE provides OTD wizard for building IDOC OTDs by connecting to an SAP R/3 system or from an IDOC description file.

Adapter Features:

Supports both Non-Unicode and Unicode SAP installations.
Ability to create IDOC segment instance in java collaboration.
Supports both EDI and ALE format of IDOC data.
Supports to build IDoc OTD from SAP R/3 via IDoc Lookups
IDoc OTD Tester support
Supports for IDoc Extensions
Supports for Solaris zones and containers.
Relaunchable OTD support for IDoc OTDs.
Improved performance of marshal, unmarshal operations.
Encoding support for marshal and unmarshal operations.

External System Support/Dependencies:

The IDOC Wizard needs:

JCO Library version 2.1.8
SAP Java Base IDOC Class Library 1.0.2
SAP Java Connector IDOC Class Library 1.0.3
Supports SAP R/3 version - 4.6C, 4.6D, 4.7, ECC 5.0(mySAP ERP 2004, Unicode and Non-Unicode) and ECC 6.0 Unicode (mySAP ERP 2005)
Supports SAP R/3 version - 4.6C, 4.6D and 4.7 for Japanese and Korean.

SAP Support Matrix:

SAP Adapter	SAP R/3 4.6C Non-Unicode	ECC 5.0 Non-Unicode	ECC 5.0 Unicode	ECC 6.0 Non-Unicode	ECC 6.0 Unicode
SAP ALE Adapter	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
SAP BAPI Adapter	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

Upgrade Considerations:

SAP ALE adapter does not have a JCA based adapter to send/receive IDOCs to/from a SAP R/3 System. The adapter must use the SAP BAPI adapter to send/receive IDocs to SAP R/3.