If you open a data job
in DataFlux Data Management Studio, the SAP Remote Function
Call node is available in the Data Integration folder.
This node enables you to read and write data using the SAP RFC and
Business Application Programming Interfaces (BAPI) provided by SAP when
using the SAP Unicode libraries.
This functionality is useful for the following:
-
reading information from SAP that
is not readily available in tables
-
using the functionality that SAP
exposes as BAPIs
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loading data to SAP by using functions
provided by SAP that are a standard way of updating objects
-
triggering an upload to SAP by
using functions that take (for example, an external file input)
In order to use the SAP
Remote Function Call node, you must install SAP Unicode
libraries (DLLs) on the computer where the job that contains the node
is executed. For example, if you use DataFlux Data Management Studio
to execute a job with an SAP Remote Function Call node,
then you must install the SAP libraries on the computer where the
software is running. If you execute a job with an SAP Remote Function
Call node, then you must install the SAP libraries on the computer
where Data Management Server is running.
DataFlux Data Management
Studio is a 32-bit Windows application and requires 32-bit SAP libraries.
See the SAP documentation for details about installing these libraries.
DataFlux Data Management
Servers can be either 32-bit or 64-bit. See the SAP documentation
for details about installing the appropriate libraries. Note that
for DataFlux Data Management Servers running on UNIX systems, you
can set the SAP_LIBPATH option in the app.cfg file to point to the
SAP DLLs.