CHAPTER 1 Migrating to Adapter for SAP R/3 Version 3.9
Installation Guide 7
❖To migrate IDoc formats from a 4.x Formatter database
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 w ith 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.
Note 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
Note 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: