Sybase R/3 User Manual

Installation Guide

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Output formats used by the Broker for IDocs sent into SAP changed between 
version 3.03 and version 3.8 of the SAP adapter. The segment names used to 
begin with E2 or Z2 and terminate with a three-digit version number. Segment 
names now begin with E1 or Z1 to reflect that the IDoc is inbound into SAP. 
Three-digit version numbers have been dropped.

New input formats can be used as loaded. No information from the old 

input format needs to be migrated.

1

Do one or both of the following:

a

Export only the outbound format from the 4.x Formatter database 
using the NNFie utility provided with Formatter 4.x.

Example:

 C:\MQI\bin>nnfie -e absen1.oc.4x.exp -m 

SAP.OC.ABSEN1 -s nnfie

b

Export the Rules associated with the format using the NNRie utility., 
if you are converting rules. 

Example:

C:\MQI\bin.nnrie -e absen1.4x.rules.exp -m 

SAP.OC.ABSEN1 -s nnfie

When exporting extended IDoc formats from an 4.x Formatter 

database, the format name must be in quotation marks because names 
contain special characters. For example:

nnfie -e format.exp -m “SAP.OC.MATMAS03^1” -s import

2

Load the outbound format for the same IDoc into a temporary 5.6 database 
using version 3.9 of Adapter for SAP R/3.

3

 Export only the outbound format of the IDoc loaded in the previous step 
using the NNFie utility provided with Formatter 5.x.

 Example:

C:\sybase\bin>nnfie -e absen1.oc.5x.exp -m 

SAP.OC.ABSEN1 -s nnfie

4

Edit the configuration file for the conversion tool to indicate: