Setting up Registration on the SAP Gateway  

Use

Making the settings for method B to register the RFC connection on SAP Gateway.

See also: Setting up an RFC Destination for a RFC Server

Prerequisites

The following information is required for method B:

Information

Description

ProgramID

The ID of your RFC server.
Choose a different ID for each RFC server (such as converter.All2txt.1)

Procedure

Replace the text between < and > with the values used in your enterprise.

<GATEWAY_HOST> Replace with the name of the computer on which your SAP Gateway is running.

  1. Edit <RFC_SERVER>.

If you use a template program (RunConvUtil.bat or RunConvUtil), you must include the following information in the file:

set ProgramID=<ProgramID>

set GATEWAY_HOST=<GATEWAY_HOST>

set GATEWAY_SERVICE=<GATEWAY_SERVICE>

(RunConvUtil.bat) or

ProgramID=<ProgramID>

GATEWAY_HOST=<GATEWAY_HOST>

GATEWAY_SERVICE=<GATEWAY_SERVICE>

(RunConvUtil)

Otherwise the RFC server must be called with the following parameters:
-a <ProgramID> -g <GATEWAY_HOST> -x <GATEWAY_SERVICE>

  1. Start <RFC_SERVER>.
  1. Check the messages on the screen (RunConvUtil.bat) and in the output files (RunConvUtil).

If, after approximately 30 seconds, you do not receive any error messages, it is likely that everything is in order.

Otherwise check whether you have correctly set <GATEWAY_HOST> and <GATEWAY_SERVICE>, and whether the gateway server is operational.

  1. Start the transaction SM59 (Display and maintain RFC destinations) on your system.
  • Choose Create and enter any name in the RFC destination field, for example CONVERTER_ALL2TXT.
  • Enter T as the value for Connection type.
  • Enter a description and confirm your entries.
  • Choose Registration as the Activation type.
  • Enter <ProgramID> as the value for Program ID.
  • Enter <GATEWAY_HOST> for Gateway host and <GATEWAY_SERVICE> for Gateway service. Confirm the entry and save the data.
  1. Choose Test connection.
  • Everything is in order if you see the connection data with the transfer times.
  • If, after a while, you see an error message marked in red, you need to find the error.

Check whether <RFC_SERVER> is still running, and if the data <ProgramID>, <GATEWAY_HOST>, and <GATEWAY_SERVICE> that you are using in <RFC_SERVER> is the same as the data that you entered.

Conversion can only occur if the connection test is free of errors.