Career with MDM

Hi ,
I am having 4 years experience in SAP MDM. There is an opportunity for me to learn either Business Objects, ETL or XI
Please suggest me which one to choose which will help for the career in MDM
Regards,
Antony

It totally depends on you and your interest. as far as SAP MDM is concern it will always be consider as a heart of SAP. it's up to you now if you want to connect a nerves system of body with other part - in/out go for PI.
if you want more load on your heart and maintain it, and want to make it strong- go for BO ETL
Jokes apart
Yea SAP is coming with built in ETL capability in MDM as well in future release. you can refer service market place for more information.
Rgds
Deep

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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

No receiver could be determined while doing SAP ECC Integraion with MDM 7

Dear All,
Can you please help me to resolve the following issue.
We are doing SAP ECC Integration with MDM 7.1 by using MDM PI Adapter.
Source side we are processing MATMAS.MATMAS05 IDoc and Receiver side we are using MDM PI Adapter to Connect the MDM System.
I have checked the Configuration by using Test Configuration Wizard, it showing every thing fine there.
Is it because of any network connection issue at the Target system (MDM) side?
Plz check the error message for your reference;
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
- 
- <SAP:Error xmlns:SAP="http://sap.com/xi/XI/Message/30" xmlns:SOAP="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" SOAP:mustUnderstand="">
<SAP:Category>XIServer</SAP:Category>
<SAP:Code area="RCVR_DETERMINATION">NO_RECEIVER_CASE_ASYNC</SAP:Code>
<SAP:P1 />
<SAP:P2 />
<SAP:P3 />
<SAP:P4 />
<SAP:AdditionalText />
<SAP:Stack>No receiver could be determined</SAP:Stack>
<SAP:Retry>M</SAP:Retry>
</SAP:Error>
Thanks
Mahesh

Hi,
From error looks like it is not failing at receiver determination step. if you all configurations are fine, then this could be because of system cache refresh.
Go to Edit mode in your scenario and again save it and activate it. Do a cache refresh and check if it works.
Regards,
Shiv

Communication Channel Error with MDM PI Adapter

Dear Experts,
We had new sever for PI(image copy). In new PI server we are facing problem only with MDM adapterin communication channel monitoring and below error occuring.
*" MDM Adapter listener could not start due to: Can not create repository session '<server=SAPMDMD serverUser=Admin repository=TTSL_Vendor_Dev user=Admin>' caused by: Connection Failed: Cannot create connection to MDM Server 'SAPMDMD' for one of the following reasons: (1) server does not exist, (2) server is not started, or (3) input/output problem while creating connection, error code: UnknownServer "
Any expert please help us to resolve this.
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Hemu.

Hello Heymanth,
Make sure that connection is fine between systems. Test the RFC's in both systems. Also check the services too.
/people/harrison.holland5/blog/2006/12/20/xi-configuration-for-mdm-integration--sample-scenario
/people/ramesh.gulipalli2/blog/2009/11/16/sap-47-to-mdm-integration-using-pi71-part1
Regards
Pothana

Webdynpro with MDM thru JAVA MDM API

Hi all
i have the requirement with webdynpro MDM JAVA API which interacting with MDM system.
i have one repositoty in the MDM console i.e DEMO_CUSTOMER
i have one table in that repository called CUSTOMER_ADDRESS .
i want to access the customer address details information from the MDM table into Webdynpro application.
can you please send the sample code to the following operations with MDM table which retrieves the information in the webdynpro application.
1) displying the table data
2) inserting the record from the table
2) deleting the record from the table
3) updating the record from the table.
it is very helpful to me if anybody would have to send the sample code to me to the above operations.
Regards
Suresh babu

If you are using the MDM Java Connector from Web Dynpro application, you have to set the properites accordingly.
Go to properties of Project and there choose "Webdynpro reference". Here, choose library reference and there give your library reference.

Be Careful With Apple Authorised Services in Russia

Dear Society,
I have bad experience with contacting one of authorised services which is published in Apple web site. It is a company called "Service.OK" and situated in Zelenograd in particular. My MacBook Air 2,5 years old got to have a problem with a screen after few drops of wine leak inside from the vent area where black panel is situated and served for monitor and keyboard panels junction. I have not expected the problem with the laptop because the glass of wine feltdown far away from the place it is situated however it was lying upside down and closed. So drops still most probably go inside. After certain period of time I switched it on and started working. Suddenly the screen goes blue and later fade away. Next day I brougt it to the address where this "Service.OK" is situated for diagnosis.
In a week I got a call from the service where they offered to repair for about 7500 RUR in cleaning the oxidation that was caused by the wine. I gave my permit for this operation. After a week time I got a new call from the service and they informed me that they were unsuccsesful with reparing it and my laptop requires to change the whole screen panel. The price of it was 23000 RUR. This time I was angree that this company is not able to do right diagnosis and I do not know what to expect later even if changing the screen panel will be unsufficient for them. I asked them to stop any actions and return the laptop back to me. I promise to compensate thier effort for diagnosis though. The service said that I can pick up it after receiving sms notification.
13 days left and I got this sms notification. I was back from the business trip and came there in 5 days. And (what a surprise!!!) I got another display panel assembled to the keybord panel with my serial number. I am 100% sure that it is not mine from the scratches I had on the top/screen panel. I rejected to take it and called to
(A) Service.OK contact number claiming that and
(B) Apple support contact number desribing the problem.
(A) Service.OK informed me that my laptop was not delivered to them. The company which is operating on the address where Service.OK is shown in Apple web-site is no longer their representative point. It is another company as far as I unvestigated. However I got
(1) a receipt with Service.OK web address reference,
(2) Service.OK web site contained an information about my laptop being received and reviewed and
(3) Service.OK point shown on their web site is the same where I gave my laptop.
(B) Apple support specialist Natalia was responsible to communicate with me about my claim. She promised to report about this problem to higher department responsible for servises authorisation in Apple. However I was really dissapointed that no actions toward Service.OK was made by Apple. It is still on the authorised services list on the same address where I gave my laptop. She can only sorry to me because Apple has no legal company in Russia to handle this situation and thier company is just for providing support.
So I have a situation that neither Apple nor Service.OK are not willing to take responsibility that my laptop does not received qualified diagnosis under Apple authorisation and additionally its parts were changed while this diagnosis.
I am now consulting with lawer in order to investigate opportunity to claim about this problem to either Service.OK or company that issued an official receipt (or even propably to Apple) in the court.
Thus I would like to underline following statements:
- Be carefull with authorised service centers in Russia. Apple seems to do not care about what is going on there.
- Never deal with point in Zelenograd and be careful with other Service.OK points.
- Know your laptop serial numbers before giving it to diagnosis otherwise it is unable to prove own position.
I will be thankful if anybody from society had such problem in the past and may give any advice. Any opinions are welcome.
Thanks
Dimitri

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XI connectivity with MDM

Hi All,
I have a project to integrate XI with MDM. Could anyone tell me the connectivity between XI and MDM, the system landscape details need to be maintained in both systems.
And how beneficial the standard package of MDM 5.5 which comes along with XI.
Thanks a lot for any help. Please send any docs related to these to [email protected]
Deno

Deno,
You can configure the MDM inbound and outbound folder in the OS level fo the MDM server and this place will be used by XI to put the files. MDM needs XML files and XI file adapter can supply the same. Apart from the maintenance of MDM as the third party system you need to identify the idoc types to be used and also the configuration to link XI to R/3 system so that you can get the outbound idocs in XI and also post the ones that comes from MDM.
MDM is capable of clubbing multiple data into single XML file. Hence if you need the inbound idocs as individual ones then you need to handle the same in mapping...else will post it as a mass idoc depending on the cardinality of the idoc type.
Cheers
JK

Third Party integration with MDM

Hello,
We are getting some data from 3rd party and trying to integrate that with MDM.
Is it where we use Enrichment controller ? Please provide some inputs and guidelines as to how we can integrate third party with MDM.
Thanks
Bindi

Hello bindi,
You can refer below links for enrichment adapter:
Setup and use of MDM enrichment controller (Good one)
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/9018dc62-23a8-2910-b7ae-9023670c3a53
How to use the test environment of the MDM Enrichment Controller
How to use the test environment of the MDM Enrichment Controller
Introducing the MDM Enrichment Controller Admin UI
Introducing the MDM Enrichment Controller Admin UI
i hope this will help you.
TNR,
Saurabh...

Using ABAP Web dynpro for connecting EP with MDM

Hi All,
We have an architecture landscape in which EP User interface (iviews) need to integrate with MDM import manager. Is it possible to achieve this using Web dynpro? If any company has implemented this kind of scenario before, please gave us the tips.
Thanks,
Anand

Hi Anand,
You can use MDM Java API in WD. ABAP API for MDM is is currently in process.
Just wondering what kind of business scenario do you have which allows portal users to use import manager`s functionality.
Best regards, Maksim Rashchynski.

Deleting DataLocationGroups (with MDM Data Manager or MDM Java API)

I´ve a lot of DataLocationGroups which are results of tests (importing pictures into the images tables but not stored as BLOB). I can´t see that the underlying table is exposed within MDM Data Manager. So i tried to delete the useless nodes with the DeleteGroup command.
However this seems not to be supported by the API
com.sap.mdm.commands.CommandException: Deleting of data location groups is currently unsupported
at com.sap.mdm.group.commands.DeleteGroupCommand.execute(DeleteGroupCommand.java:91)
I´m using the new Java API with MDM 5.5SP6.
No chance to remove the nodes?

Thanks for your answer. I would possibly open a service call to check if there is a hotfix available. Maybe you have some idea how i can check if the a Location is already existent? From experiments when importing with the MDM Data manager, it seems that a path is represented by a tree of HierLocationGroupNodes.
For example: I´ve imported from
cde271480MMPPpictures.jpg using the Data Manager. When using the RetrieveGroupTree Command, i can see that there are two nodes named cde271480 (Id: GN39) with child node named MMPP (Id: GN89).
Maybe i now want to use the API to import a picture from
cde271480 estlocation into the images table. To get a locationID usable for the setDataLocationId i had to compare the pathname of the picture with elements of the GroupTree from the root. If one element of the path is not existent in the tree, i have to create this new element and connect it to the parent. And i can then use the ID of the Leaf node for the DataLocationId. Is this correct?

Okay my phone was working just fine and I locked it and went to unlock it and now it just sits on the black screen it wont even show the lock screen I dont know what to do but I am very careful with my phone anyone know how to fix it? Plz and thank you!

Okay my phone was working just fine and I went to unlock it and it wont show the lock screen it just remains black please if anyone can help me fix it it will be much appreciated, I am very careful with my phone so I dont know why its acting like this.

I'm glad to hear that they replaced your phone. Any experience I have had with Apple customer service and/or Genius bar has been extremely positive. While I have had positive outcomes from trouble with other phones in the past, they are not as quick and friendly. I had a Motorola phone and a Samsung phone go bad several years ago and warranty work through AT&T required that I wait for a replacement unit and then mail back the original unit to keep from being charged for the device. This usually meant almost a week without a phone. Nice to walk into Apple and walk out with a replacement device. Enjoy your phone.

SAP Retail with MDM Integration

Hi all,
Can anyone share expereinces or documents related to the integration of Article data with MDM and Retail? Can MDM generate the article data with its variants for standard ERP Retail to consume?
Has anyone used PRICAT for this purpose? Your help is very much appreciated.
Thanks
Subha

hi
you can go to marketplace.
https://websmp204.sap-ag.de/support
Downloads > SAP Software Distribution Center > Search for Support Packages and Patches >
XI Configuration for MDM Integration - Sample Scenario
XI Configuration for MDM Integration - Sample Scenario
Testing and Monitoring an Interface Between MDM & XI
/people/harrison.holland5/blog/2007/01/22/testing-and-monitoring-an-interface-between-mdm-xi
R/3-XI-MDM (Outbound Scenario)
R/3-XI-MDM (Outbound Scenario)
MDM-XI-R/3 Integration
MDM-XI-R/3 Integration
MDM 5.5 data distribution using SAP XI
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Amit

SRM5.0 with MDM Catalog

Hi,
I would like to know following questions :-
1, Do I need to replicate/bring master data (vendor, product category, material) from ECC6.0 to MDM Catalog if I need to implement MDM Catalog? Already SRM is having master data (replicated from ECC6.0).
2. I believe in CCM2.0 I don't have to replicate master data and just need to upload catalog. CCM was able to use SRM server master data,
3. My client is usuing MDM extensively and when we go for MDM Catalog, will it be totally seperate system from MDM SAP they are usuing?
Thnaks,
Rajan

Hello Michelle,
When you download the business content of SRM-MDM then you will find the MDM installables also.
This does not mean that you have to install the seperate instance of MDM Server.
It is not necessary that you have to use the seperate instance of MDM Server for the MDM Catalog Scenario.
But If you can use the seperate instance of MDM Server for SRM-MDM Catalog then you can, it will be good.
Just match the version of MDM installables which is in the Business content of SRM-MDM Catalog with the version of MDM Server which you are using. this is because of the business content contains some scar files to be deployed on WAS which is dependent on the MDM Server version. So check If both are same than you can use the same MDM Server for SRM-MDM Catalog Scenario.
For the verion mapping of SRM-MDM Catalog with MDM 5.5, you can refer the following SAP Notes:
Version mapping SRM-MDM Catalog 1.0 to SAP MDM 5.5--> 1082069
Version mapping SRM-MDM Catalog 2.0 to SAP MDM 5.5--> 1083126
I hope this will clear your doubt.
TNR,
Saurabh...
Edited by: Saurabh Kumar Sahu on Aug 13, 2008 8:44 AM

Issues with MDM installation - Windows + MaxDB 7.7

I list here some observations resulting from the installation of MDM on Windows with MaxDB
You can find the documentation here:
http://service.sap.com/installMDM
Important is the Installation Guide.
1) only two files are needed:
MDM: 51032724.zip (more then 1GB)
MaxDB: http://service.sap.com/swdc
Support Packages and Patches, Additional Components, MaxDB, MAXDB 64-BIT, MAXDB 7.7 64-BIT -> MAXDB7702_16-10004357.SAR
2)
the installer propose sometime the path sdb and sometimes sapdb
I always used M:\sapdb\....
install the maxdb as explained in the inst. guide of mdm
http://service.sap.com/installMDM
( first client , then client+server)
mdm installation is straightforward
(3x server + some clients)
3) Install OSS 684106 (paragraph 3.2.1 in the installation guide)
4) restart the system after installing
5) start the console and use only the DB-User SAPMDMDB with password SAP
6) After creating a repository, log in using the user Admin and no PW
7) capital letter are in general important

Hi Manish,
       Here are other some problems you may face...
      1) 7.1 does not support some of the database charset which was supported in 5.5, which may lead to re-installation of database...
      2) Multiple workflows on single record was supported in 5.5 but its no longer possible with 7.1, which may lead to redesign of existing scenarious...
      3) A strict ristriction is added in Import manager xml maps, which requires single root element in xml. There is autimatic transformation step for doing this, but dont know how much it works accuretly...
      4) Tuple is added as new structure, but is has more restriction than the qualified lookup, validation are applicable for qualified lookup but you cannot write validation and assignment on multivalued tuple...
      5) PI Adapter is marketed as "it can directly intereact with MDM", but as such there is no advantage because only ftp will get replaced with java api calls, and PI/XI cannot directly read-from or write-to MDM. all the file transfer via import and syndicator remain same continuing "BLACK BOX Communication" bettween MDM and PI/XI.
Regards,
- Shailesh.

Career with BI/BW

Hi,
Sorry. This is a non general question.
I am presently in UK.
I have experience of 8+ years in other technologies & ERP. I wish to pursure career with BI/BW.
I am trying for an online course with dummy assignments to learn SAP BI/BW. My question is:-
Is it worth going for a training & looking for a job in this area?
Does it require experience to get a job in this line?
Do companies ask for certifications?
I am getting an online course from India @ 13k INR. Kindly advise if it is worth going for a career change.
Thanks,
Regards,

Hi Alok,
Thanks for all your very valuable inputs, thats been very helpful to me.
I do not have an experience with SAP. I have worked with a Microsoft ERP for 5+ yrs in functional & technical both plus 3+ yrs in other technologies as Sr. Engineer. Currently my role is more a functional being a Sr. Consultant.
I wish to switch over to SAP functional modules or SAP BI/BW. I do possess a good functional knowledge in almost all modules but not with SAP. But i do not know if this experience will really help with SAP.
Are there any good online courses available in this thread? If yes what will be the fees? (If anyone is aware...)
I know the fees at the authorized training centers for any functional module is very costly(i thnk arnd 1.5 - 2.5 lakhs).
But are the other institutes worth going for trainings?
Can a person without prior SAP experience directly go in for SAP certifications?
Thanks in advance,
Best regards,

Career with MDM

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