ABAP to MDM

Hi All,
I am an abapper, would like to shift to MDM, is it possible, people say i can shift to EP,XI with knowledge in Java, but i do not know JAVA. Is there any scope for me in MDM. Where do they teach MDM? Please advise me, since its confusing.
Thanks in advance
Regards
Ab

Hi, Ab,
You do not need to know JAVA to work with MDM.
SAP Education America is currently offering 4 MDM courses, http://www50.sap.com/useducation/curriculum/curriculum.asp?rid=520. The first course, MDM100, has lots of hands-on exercises along with how MDM is integrated with EP, ECC, BI, and others. There are also many MDM Reference Guides available on Service MarketPlace. These are very detailed guides, averaging in size from 200 to 600 pages depending on the topic.
Sincerely,
Kristin

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Role of ABAP in MDM

Hello MDM Guru's,
Could you please help me to understand the role of ABAP in MDM. i underestand ABAP API's role (interfaces) can be used, However i want know what kind of requirements do we get to use ABAP based coding & what kind of customization could be done, could i use Business Workflow from ABAP in MDM.
Any documents or links please.
Thanks in advace
Cheers
Srihari

Hi Srihari,
The role of MDM with ABAP is basically the utilization of the MDM functionalities and features from an ABAP server.
It is a way to connect to the MDM system from another system which does not understand MDM language.
As MDM is a C++ based system and ABAP is an ABAP language based ERP system.If you want to talk to the MDM system from an ABAP system you need to inteface them through the ABAP API's.
Doing this you can then Search,create ,update Run matching strategies etc from teh ABAP system just by using the Preconfigured classes and methods.Whereever a n enhancemendt is needed which is more than the standard delivered functionlaity of MDM you can utilize the coding ability of ABAP to achieve it.
Few Real time requirement that I came across of using ABAP interfcae to MDM are
- Creating ABAP design ALV reports that is a result of MDM Master data stored within the MDM repositories.
- The logs that are available with MDM are the standard delivered ones which are not easily understandable.We can use ABAP is an effective way to develope a user friendly report explaining the MDM logs
- Something similar to the above can bo done with the change tracking feature of MDM.
- Also ABAP api can be used with effective coding and customization to make available the Master data from MDM as an F4 help in abap.
Regarding using ABAP business workflow in MDM or viceversa,I guess is not a feasible thing to do.
You can however use the Consistent MDM outputted data in ECC and run a separate governance on it through an ECC workflow using ABAP.
To know more on what standard features as well as customized features that can be delivered through the MDM-ABAP interface .Kindly refer the MDM ABAP API series how to guides
Hope It Helped
Thanks & Regards
Simona Pinto

Career ABAP with MDM

Hi Guy's
I had seen many posts saying that career in MDM will be booming. But on contractary I had seen jon saying that it is good to have skill and that too with BI ( http://www.jonerp.com/component/option,com_jd-wp/Itemid,20/p,40/ ). After reading this I am in big confusion wheather to take up MDM course as ABAPER or not.
Please let me know you help views on how would be the career in MDM with ABAP would be?
Thanks
Powered

Hi,
As a whole if you talk about MDM system it basically dependent upon,
1. Cosolidation 2. Harmonization 3. Centralized scenarios
so when you consolidate data in MDM, it comes from outside systems like SAP R3/ERP/CRM, any Legacy system or any 3rd party system. and in harmonization you send back after doing some manipulation on that data. similarly centalization means doing every thing in MDM. Thats baiscs.
Let me tell now, you are an abaper and you know all the tables which are related to Customer, vendor, Material, sales, bank, Purchase, shipping, etc...
and mdm when takes data from R3/SAP from my point of view if you have knowledge of that system. Its good to have.
MDM also deals with ABAP APIS so its also good for an abaper.
For starting MDM see this link:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_mdm550/helpdata/en/43/D7AED5058201B4E10000000A11466F/frameset.htm and you can search this forum you will find a lot of things for MDM and ABAP with MDM etc...
Rewards if useful.
BR,
Alok Sharma

ABAP API MDM vs Standard MDM !!!

Maybe the expression that I am using is not the best one and hope that someone can give me any clarifications.
What I am intending is to know:
1)     If using ABAP API is the best way to implement MDM purposes or if hes an alternative to implement MDM using ABAP API?
2)     In the proof of concept that I am implementing, I only use the principal components of MDM (Import, Data Manager, Syndicator and Console) in order to find the solution of our enterprise business.
3)     Using ABAP API, I have to use programming method, implement by myself some functionalities in ABAP to connect and resolve my MDM purposes.
4)     If am not using ABAP API (The way that I am proceeding right now) , I have to use the standard software component (enterprises services ) of the R3 Systems in order to connect MDM with client systems.
Thanks guy for your assistance. We just want to know the best way to proceed with MDM .

The best method for implementing MDM depends on the requirements of each scenario. For example, if you have a program in R/3 that needs to pull some data from MDM for analysis then perhaps using the ABAP API would be the best route to take. If you need to transfer materials or vendors from MDM to various R/3 systems, perhaps using XI would be the best route to take. I would recommend looking at the <a href="https://websmp106.sap-ag.de/~sapidb/011000358700004656452006E">IT Scenario Configuration Guide</a> to get a better understanding of SAP's recommended practices given different scenarios

MDM Hierarchy Table Into Tree UI Control in ABAP WebDynpro & MDM ABAP APIs

Experts,
I am a newbie to ABAP / MDM ABAP APIs. I am looking into the possibility of using Tree as as a UI control in a webdynpro abap application to represent hierarchy tables, perform hierarchy / taxonomy search, create and update records involving hierarchy fields, using MDM ABAP APIs.
I would like to seek inputs to check whether and how, is it possible to use MDM ABAP APIs to:
1. To perform taxonomy search on material table
2. To Create material records in the main table involving taxonomy fields.
3. To search on main table records using taxonomy attribute values as search parameters.
4. To use Tree UI control with in WebDynPro ABAP, to peform above operations.
We intend to use function modules - service calls from within WebDynPro ABAP applications, hence would like to know the feasibility, actual build effort and complexity of function modules.
Inputs and advice on same will be highly appreciated and duly rewarded.
Regards,
Paras

1. To perform taxonomy search on material table - if material table is of type Taxonomy then possible
2. To Create material records in the main table involving taxonomy fields - possible . you create records in main table and assign value of field to that of taxonomy table entry
3. To search on main table records using taxonomy attribute values as search parameters. - possiblr
4. To use Tree UI control with in WebDynPro ABAP, to peform above operations. - yes possible
dont mix between hierarchy table and taxonomy table
they are diff in MDM , but it is possible to build UI with WD tree element for each of these types.
all that you said are supported in ABAP APIs
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ABAP API - MDM Workflow execute

Hi,
Do we have any methods/function modules available to access MDM Workflow using ABAP API?
I have checked through the 19 tutorials of MDM ABAP API available at service.sap.com but was not successful.
Regards,
Subramanian V.

Up to now the MDM workflow is not supported by the MDM ABAP API.
Regards
Andreas

ABAP API for MDM work flow

Hi SDN,
I need some information related to ABAP API for MDM workflow. I did search in SDN and I found one solution in a thered posted on Jul-2008.
ABAP API - MDM Workflow execute
My dought is: Do we have any ABAP API for call MDM work flow. Please provide me the solution ASAP. Apprciate for your immediate response.
Regards,
Kumar.

Hi LAKSHMAN ,
To answer your question specifically
Using ABAP api you cannot call MDM workflows as of mdm 5.5 there are no functions specific to calling MDM workflows in ABAP.If you want to implement workflows on ABAP side you need to go for SAP ECC workflows which is a different topic than MDM>
To call MDM workflows over the Java stack ie WAS (SAP portal),You have 2 ways
- UWL
- Guided Procedures.
- UWL is a way of calling MDM workflows on EP.Wherein the workflow design will be done in MDM and it will only be called in portal using appropiate connections and configurations.
You can refer the below links to know more on them:
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/771f1a61-0e01-0010-daa9-93a52905da09 (uwl)
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/a3461636-0301-0010-3787-978f5ac8bd45 (UWL config)
- GP is a way where by you need to design the entire workflow on SAP portal the logic can be pertaining to MDM but the design is completely on portal using webdynpros and api.
You can refer the below links to know more on them:
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/92811997-0d01-0010-9584-f7d535177831 (Guided procedures)
Enterprise Master Data Management (EP Guided)
To know more on ABAP api and its provider classes you can refer the below:
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/601ddb01-e5c8-2910-d981-b190b51fca44 (abap api webinar)
Re: Abap api error (Abap api provider classes Forum)
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Simona Pinto

MDM ABAP

Hello,
What are the prequisites implementng the MDM ABAP API ? please give procedure for implementing ABAP API's?
Thanks,
Powered

Hi,
Here is the breif discription about MDM ABAP API.
_Introduction_
The MDM ABAP API (MDM4A) provides an interface for accessing SAP MDM 5.5 using ABAP. The interface is easy to configure and convenient to use. The MDM4A is delivered on SAP Web AS 6.40 and 7.00.Using MDM4A functionalities operations on records (create retrieve, update, delete, query, etc) and metadata (tables, fields etc) and administrative functions (such as repository) are delivered. By using MDM4A ABAP developers do not have to learn the SAP NetWeaver MDM specific data types.
Customization settings for MDM ABAP API
u2022Integration
The API is automatically registered in the SLD when the repository and connection information is configured in a system. The MD ABAP API customizing is done through a transaction MDMAPIC, this transaction consists of following elements
1.MDM DBMS Hosts
Stores the information regarding the database server connection.
Repositories may reside on a DBMS that is a different physical system than the MDM server itself
The Drop Down Box for DB Type will show all support DBMS types.
The name in the MDM DBMS field is arbitrary and only know to ABAP
2.MDM Server Connections
Stores the information regarding the database server connection.
Define the TCP/IP communication settings for connection to the MDM Server
Enter the Server Hostname and the Port for communication
Typically the MDM server runs on Port 20005
The name in the MDM Connection field is arbitrary and only know to ABAP
3 ABAP Implementation for MDM version support
Stores the information regarding the used provider implementation.
Different releases of SAP NetWeaver MDM may require technical differences in the Low Level Provider Class
This configuration will allow you to assign a provider class to a set of repository configuration settings
4.MDM Repositories
Stores the name of the target Repository, and a logical object name that refers to the information regarding MDM server, DBM etc.
We tie all our configurations together by specifying for a repository: what server, DBMS, and Provider it should use
The Object name is arbitrary and only know to ABAP u2013although it is used as the key to read all the configuration
The MDM Repository must be the real repository name as it is displayed from the MDM Console.
u2022Trusted System Connection
The SAP NetWeaver MDM Server(s) must trust their AS-ABAP counterparts.
Trusting is configured via two files on the SAP NetWeaver MDM server u2013allow.ip and deny.ip.
These files contain the IP addresses of the AS-ABAP systems that you want to control access from.
Configuration at Server Side
To establish a trusted relationship between R\3 and MDM we need to do some configuration. This configuration is done so that MDM server should know which client is trusted for connection and communication.
This is necessary to create a text file u201Callow.ipu201D which contains the IP addresses of Systems that want to connect to MDM Server. This file should be placed in the same directory where mds.ini file exists. It is also possible to use a wild card for the entire subnet .For example 10.58.0.* this indicates that any address with in the network 10.58.0 is considered to be trusted.
deny.ip.
In order to allow an entire subnet but specify some exceptions it is necessary to define these IP address in the deny.ip file. Put this file in the same directory where the mds.ini file exists.
User Authentication
Because there is a trusted relationship, no passwords must be passed through MDM4A The AS-ABAP user identity (SY-UNAME) will automatically be passed through the MDM4A interface.
A repository user with the same ID must exist on the SAP NetWeaver MDM server side for a role to be assigned to the request.
You can Dowbnload documents related to MDM ABAP API from here
https://websmp210.sap-ag.de/~sapidb/011000358700004121872006E --> Operations
Hope it will help you,
Regards,
Vinay Yadav
Edited by: Vinay Yadav on May 26, 2008 11:07 AM

MDM_TECH 554_700 ABAP API giving socket connection error

Hi,
I have recently installed the MDM_TECH 554_700 on a 64Bit R/3 system and configured the ABAP API thru customization for a 32Bit MDM Server. Currently I am facing a problem with 'NiRaw2ConnectError: Connection refused' error and when I checked the detailed log it shows that "ERROR => mdeKernelError, NiRawToConnectError: The attempt to establish a socket connection caused an error (rc=-10) [mdm_mdeClien 265]". I have checked the necessary kernel files ( dw_mdm.dll) to make the socket connection between the MDM system, the OSS note 965209 & 950245 and not able to trace the problem. Is it possible to make the connection between 64Bit R/3 and 32Bit MDM server? Help on this issue is highly appreciated.
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Alejandro,
The MDM ABAP API & MDM Server Versions are same. Both of them are in SP04. Here is the details on the versions:
MDM ABAP API - MDM SP04 provider, Server build 5.5.32.48 - 5.5.32.x
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Migrating towards Master Data Management..

Hi professionals,
I am working in a ALE/IDOC support project and I am an ABAP certified consultant.
In my current project i am dealing with replication of both master and transactional data and passing them to both sap or non-sap systems and fixing the errors if any happens during replication. I am also involved in various other activities such as creating partner profile, checking trfc queue, ALE configurations etc. Now I am planning to take up certification. I am confused to take eiher BI or MDM.
I have few doubts,
1. How is the job opening for an ABAP certified + BI certified person with 2+ years of experience in an ALE/IDOC support project. Will there be a good demand in future too?
2. How is the job opening for an ABAP certified + MDM certified person with 2+ years of experience in an ALE/IDOC support project. Will there be a good demand in future?
People say that job opening is very little for MDM. There are not much projects in MDM. Also say that MDM not stand alone and MDM Certification holds good if and only if the guy is either an BI guy or an XI guy.
I want to be a techno functional guy, being both technical and as well as interacting with clients.
I love extensive coding and innovative thinking.
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Thanks in advance.

Hi LAKSHMINARASIMHAN.
+1. How is the job opening for an ABAP certified + BI certified person with 2+ years of experience in an ALE/IDOC support project. Will there be a good demand in future too?+
+2. How is the job opening for an ABAP certified + MDM certified person with 2+ years of experience in an ALE/IDOC support project. Will there be a good demand in future?+
People say that job opening is very little for MDM. There are not much projects in MDM. Also say that MDM not stand alone and MDM Certification holds good if and only if the guy is either an BI guy or an XI guy.
I want to be a techno functional guy, being both technical and as well as interacting with clients.
I love extensive coding and innovative thinking.
To be very frank, MDM has picked upo a lot if you compare it with the last year and project have started coming in. However, the latest verison is expected to touch market soon. We expect the product to get a lot stabilized after that. It will be in 4th quarter of this year.
Also people have now realized that MDM is a very hot cake and are now entering this techonolgy. Most importantly, SAP is giving a lot of attention towards MDM. Also as the companies are planning to move to ESOA architecture, MDM will be required as MDm is the base for ESOA.
Kindly go through the link to know about :
How is career in MDM:
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/wiki?path=/display/profile/new%2bto%2bmdm%2b~%2bhow%2bis%2bcareer%2bin%2bsap-mdm
The above link will lead you to various links which will give you info on:
1. Is is good to choose MDM as career? How is the market of SAP MDM? What will be the job oportunity?
2. Coding is requird 4 MDM?
3. Learning MDM for a Functional Consultant
Also frankly speaking Bi is great but a lot of people have already entered BI. So I would suggest you to enter MDM and be among the very few people who are expert in MDM.
Also you have mentioned that you like coding, MDM gives you space for coding when it comes to API's. One can use both ABAP and java langauge while integrating MDM with other systems. However, there is no coding within the MDM box.
Hence I would suggest you to go for MDM.
Hope it helps.
Thanks and Regards
Nitin jain
Edited by: Nitin Jain on Jul 29, 2008 2:26 PM

Program _____.MDS not registered..PI 7.1 EHP 1-MDM 7.1 Integration-ABAP API

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Hi Kanstantsin Chernichenka,
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I tried the given suggestion. And even restarted the PI and MDM system.
Still, I am facing the same problem.
My allow.ip file contains
122.183.187.24;
122.183.187.25;
115.242.211.112;
115.184.2.47;
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[MDM Server]
XCS Ini Version=1
Accelerator Dir=E:\usr\sap\MDM\MDS02\mdm\accelerators
Log Dir=E:\usr\sap\MDM\MDS02\log
Report Dir=E:\usr\sap\MDM\MDS02\mdm\reports
Archive Dir=E:\usr\sap\MDM\MDS02\mdm\archives
Distribution Root Dir=E:\usr\sap\MDM\MDS02\mdm\distributions
Transport Dir=E:\usr\sap\MDM\MDS02\mdm\transport
Modifications Dir=E:\usr\sap\MDM\MDS02\mdm\modifications
Lexicon Dir=E:\usr\sap\MDM\MDS02\exe\Lexicons\
Extra DBConnection Validation=True
Log SQL Errors=True
String Resource Dir=E:\usr\sap\MDM\MDS02\exe\LangStrings\
Stemmer Install Dir=E:\usr\sap\MDM\MDS02\exe
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Wily Instrumentation Level Threshold=10
SLD Registration=True
Skip Unchanged Records=False
Autostart=0
MDS Ini Version=1
RELEASE\UseAssert=True
Tracing Level=3
LogViewer Format Logging=False
LogViewer Format Tracing=False
Trusted SAP Systems=DPI
TrustFiles Dir=E:\usr\sap\MDM\MDS02\config
Max Threads Per Operation=Auto
Lock Account After Failed Password Attempts=5
Lock Account Duration=1800
Minimal Password Length=5
Password Expiration Days=90
Password Expiration Warning=7
Disable Read Access To Corrupt Repositories=False
MDS Scone=
Log SQL Modifications=False
Maximum DBMS Bind Count=512
Oracle\Dll=OCI.DLL
Allow Console to Retrieve Files=True
Oracle Tablespace Files=1
Default Interface Language Code=eng
Default Interface Country Code=US
Client Ping Timeout Minutes=0
Inactive Client Timeout Minutes=30
Value Retrieval Threshold=0
Protect Family Nodes With Locked Data=False
Number Of Stemmers Per Language=2
TrexDllPath=
Import Slice Size=2048
Bulk Import Silo=True
Safe Silo Mode=False
Enable Change Stamp Logging=False
Always Verify DBMS Connection Before Executing SQL Statements=False
Disable Read Access To Repositories That Require Restart=False
Family Retrieval Threshold=30000
Enable Client Dictionaries=False
Restricted Url For Client Export=
Index_Page_Margin=10
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Enable Slicing For Non-Bulk Operations=False
Multithreaded Matching=True
SAP RFC Gateways=
[MDM Server\Databases\MDM_1MDMORCL_5_3_4_3]
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Valid Keyword Chars=abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789
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Max Initial MB to Retain=4
Max Send Failure MB to Retain=4
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Mail SMTP Timeout=1
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I have developed a code to retrieve fields from MDM to SAP R/3 using MDM ABAP API's, i could retrieve all of the fields excluding the Lookup[Hierarchy] fields like- FACILITY CODE etc...
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Also I want to install MDM in the same laptop. Is it possible? Will PI comes with ABAP + jAVA stacks?
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We have interface from where we take the user input which updates the field value back in the MDM.
On the basis of similar scenario we have "DATE" field on the interface which will update the date and time in MDM, also we are making use of ABAP API for development.
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Type: MDM Literal date:
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Type: MDM Literal time:
    CLEAR lv_time.
    CONVERT TIME STAMP ls_result_ddic_ex-fieldliteraltime-content TIME ZONE sy-zonlo INTO TIME lv_time.
    WRITE: AT (10) lv_time, '|'.
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Bala

ABAP Webdynpro as callable object to connect MDM Server

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if we want create MDM workflows in portal thru GP then we need to create the callable object initially which will integrate the MDM system thru MDM Apis
suppose if we choose the option of taking the ABAP webdynpro as callable object then what is the development efforts/Steps to involve for creating the callable objects.
i hope that we can use the ABAP wendynpro thru MDM ABAP APIs where we can integrate MDM data in ABAP webdynpro application.
can you please list out what is the Aims from enduser level and development level.
Please more details on this??
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Hi All
if we want create MDM workflows in portal thru GP then we need to create the callable object initially which will integrate the MDM system thru MDM Apis
suppose if we choose the option of taking the ABAP webdynpro as callable object then what is the development efforts/Steps to involve for creating the callable objects.
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