CIF questions

Hi,
I have a couple of questions:
1. I created an integration model with selection take all materials in the plant P1. This model had about 4000 materials when I generated and activated it.
Now few more materials are created and when I go to the model and check in CFM2. it is still showing 4000 materials without the new ones included.When I went to CFM1 and created the model again, it then has the 4020 material. When I activate a new model is displayed.
In a production system, do I need to keep regenerating the model every one in a month or so to get the models updated? please let me know the best practice.
2. When I transfer a material to APO, I go to /SAPAPO/MAT1 and check if the material is assigned to a model. I see 000 assignment, which is good. But when I click on choose "choose planning version ", I enter 000 and it says "No simulation parameters could be set for the active version". but the same is good when I selected an inactive version 001.
Should this be 000?
Thanks.

1. Ideally you should be regenerating the models - there are a few programs that do it. So set it up with the broad coverage of products and locations and let it run periodically
2. what comes through to Mat1 is version independent and has 000 model assigned to it. Being the active version 000 planning version you cant change any parameters that you can do for the simulation version. Also so maintain for the simulation versions you need to do a version copy of the master data
(The model contains only master data, whereas the planning version contains master data and transaction data.)

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I have one basic question regarding CIF.
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2. In Ecc system with tcode-CFC1(Define target system operation mode and queue type)
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Edited by: David Halitsky on Feb 20, 2008 3:56 PM

I know what you're saying, but it doesn't apply in this case (I think.)
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Hello VDI users,
NB: I initially asked this list of questions to my friends at the
SunRay-Users mailing list, but then I found this forum as a
more relevant place.
It's a bit long and I understand that many questions may have
already been answered in detail on the forum or VDI wiki. If it's
not too much a burden - please just reply with a link in this case.
I'd like this thread to become a reference of sorts to point to our
management and customers.
I'm growing an interest to try out a Sun VDI POC in our lab
with VirtualBox and Sunrays, so I have a number of questions
popping up. Not all of them are sunray-specific (in fact, most
are VirtualBox-related), but I humbly hope you won't all flame
me for that?
I think I can get most of the answers by experiment, but if
anyone feels like sharing their experience on these matters
so I can expect something a'priori - you're welcome to do so ;)
Some questions involve best practices, however. I understand
that all mileages vary, but perhaps you can warn me (and others)
about some known-not-working configurations...
1) VDI core involves a replicated database (such as MySQL)
for redundant configuration of its working set storage...
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input)?
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touted 3D acceleration (OpenGL 2.0 and DX8/9), and lets
connections over RDP to any VM BIOS and OSes, not just
Windows ones?
4.1) Does the presence of a graphics accelerator card on
the VirtualBox server matter for remote use of the VM's
(such as through a Sun Ray and VDI)?
4.2) Concerning the microphone input, as the question often
asked for SRSS+uttsc and replied by RDP protocol limits...
Is it possible to pass the audio over some virtualized
device for the virtual machine? Is it (not) implemented
already? ;)
5) Are there known DO's and DONT's for VM desktop workloads?
For example, simply office productivity software users
and software developers with Java IDEs or ongoing C/C++
compilations should have different RAM/disk footprints.
Graphics designers heavy on Adobe Photoshop are another
breed (which we've seen to crawl miserably in Windows
RDP regardless of win/mstsc or srss/uttsc clients).
Can it be predicted that some class of desktops can
virtualize well and others should remain "physical"?
NB: I guess this is a double-question - on virtualization
of remote desktop tasks over X11/RDP/ALP (graphics bound),
as well as a question on virtualization of whole desktop
machines (IO/RAM/CPU bound).
6) Are there any rule-of-thumb values for virtualized
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In particular, how well does a virtualized networked
or "local" homedir work for typical software compile
tasks (r/w access to many small files)?
7) I'm also interested in the scenario of VMs spawned
from "golden image" and destroyed after logout and/or
manually (i.e. after "golden image"'s update/patching).
It would be interesting to enable the cloned machine
to get an individual hostname, join the Windows domain
(if applicable), promote the user's login to the VM's
local Administrators group or assign RBAC profiles or
sudoer permissions, perhaps download the user's domain
roaming profile - all prior to the first login on this
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VM cloning method (i.e. the user's login name, machine's
hostname and VM's OS)?
If not, perhaps there are some best-practice suggestions
on similar provisioning of cloned hosts during first boot
(this problem is not as new as VDI, anyways)?
8) How great is the overhead (quantitative or subjective)
of VM desktops overall (if more specific than values in
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above. Other aspects involve:
How much more RAM does a VM-executing process typically
use than is configured for the VM? In the JavaOne demo
webinar screenshots I think I've seen a Windows 7 host
with 512Mb RAM, and a VM process sized about 575Mb.
The Wiki suggests 1.2 times more. Is this a typical value?
Are there "hidden costs" in other VBox processes?
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such CPU-intensive tasks as compilation?
*) Question from our bookkeeping team:
Does creating such a POC lab and testing it in office's
daily work (placing some employees or guests in front of
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licensed; Solaris is, I guess, licensed by the download
form asking for how many hosts we have).
Since all of the products involved (sans SGD) don't need
a proof of license to install and run, and they can be
downloaded somewhat freely (after quickly clicking thru
the tomes of license agreements), it's hard for a mere
admin to reply such questions ;)
If there are some limits (# of users, connections, VMs,
CPUs, days of use, whatever) which differentiate a legal
deployment for demo (or even legal for day-to-day work)
from a pirated abuse - please let me know.
//Jim
Edited by: JimKlimov on Jul 7, 2009 10:59 AM
Added licensing question

Hello VDI users,
NB: I initially asked this list of questions to my friends at the
SunRay-Users mailing list, but then I found this forum as a
more relevant place.
It's a bit long and I understand that many questions may have
already been answered in detail on the forum or VDI wiki. If it's
not too much a burden - please just reply with a link in this case.
I'd like this thread to become a reference of sorts to point to our
management and customers.
I'm growing an interest to try out a Sun VDI POC in our lab
with VirtualBox and Sunrays, so I have a number of questions
popping up. Not all of them are sunray-specific (in fact, most
are VirtualBox-related), but I humbly hope you won't all flame
me for that?
I think I can get most of the answers by experiment, but if
anyone feels like sharing their experience on these matters
so I can expect something a'priori - you're welcome to do so ;)
Some questions involve best practices, however. I understand
that all mileages vary, but perhaps you can warn me (and others)
about some known-not-working configurations...
1) VDI core involves a replicated database (such as MySQL)
for redundant configuration of its working set storage...
1.1) What is the typical load on this database? Should it
just be "available", or should it also have a high mark
in performance?
For example, we have a number of old Sun Netra servers
(UltraSPARC-II 450-650MHz) which even have a shared SCSI
JBOD (Sun StorEdge S1 with up to 3 disks).
Would these old horses plow the field well? (Some of them
do run our SRSS/uttsc tasks okay)
1.2) This idea seems crippled a bit anyway - if the database
master node goes down, it seems (but I may be wrong) that
one of the slave DB nodes should be promoted to a master
status, and then when the master goes up, their statuses
should be sorted out again.
Or the master should be made HA in shared-storage cluster.
(Wonder question) Why didn't they use Sun DSEE or OpenDS
with built-in multimaster replication instead?
2) The documentation I've seen refers to a specific version
of VirtualBox - 2.0.8, as the supported platform for VDI3.
It was implied that there were specific features in that
build made for Sun VDI 3 to work with it. Or so I got it.
2.1) A few versions rolled out since that one, 3.0 is out
now. Will they work together okay, work but as unsupported
config, not work at all?
2.2) If specifically VirtualBox 2.0.8 is to be used, is there
some secret build available, or the one from Old Versions
download page will do?
3) How much a bad idea is it to roll out a POC deployment
(up to 10 virtual desktop machines) with VirtualBox VMs
running on the same server which contains their data
(such as Sun Fire X4500 with snv_114 or newer)?
3.1) If this is possible at all, and if the VM data is a
(cloned) ZFS dataset/volume, should a networked protocol
(iSCSI) be used for VM data access anyway, or is it
possible (better?) to use local disk access methods?
3.2) Is it possible to do a POC deployment (forfeiting such
features as failover, scalability, etc.) on a single
machine alltogether?
3.3) Is it feasible to extend a single-machine deployment
to a multiple-machine deployment in the future (that
is, without reinstalling/reconfiguring from scratch)?
4) Does VBox RDP server and its VDI interaction with SRSS
have any specific benefits to native Windows RDP, such
as responsiveness, bandwidth, features (say, microphone
input)?
Am I correct to say that VBox RDP server enables the
touted 3D acceleration (OpenGL 2.0 and DX8/9), and lets
connections over RDP to any VM BIOS and OSes, not just
Windows ones?
4.1) Does the presence of a graphics accelerator card on
the VirtualBox server matter for remote use of the VM's
(such as through a Sun Ray and VDI)?
4.2) Concerning the microphone input, as the question often
asked for SRSS+uttsc and replied by RDP protocol limits...
Is it possible to pass the audio over some virtualized
device for the virtual machine? Is it (not) implemented
already? ;)
5) Are there known DO's and DONT's for VM desktop workloads?
For example, simply office productivity software users
and software developers with Java IDEs or ongoing C/C++
compilations should have different RAM/disk footprints.
Graphics designers heavy on Adobe Photoshop are another
breed (which we've seen to crawl miserably in Windows
RDP regardless of win/mstsc or srss/uttsc clients).
Can it be predicted that some class of desktops can
virtualize well and others should remain "physical"?
NB: I guess this is a double-question - on virtualization
of remote desktop tasks over X11/RDP/ALP (graphics bound),
as well as a question on virtualization of whole desktop
machines (IO/RAM/CPU bound).
6) Are there any rule-of-thumb values for virtualized
HDD and networking filesystems (NFS, CIFS) throughput?
(I've seen the sizing guides on VDI Wiki; anything else
to consider?)
For example, the particular users' data (their roaming
profiles, etc.) should be provisioned off the networked
storage server, temporary files (browser caches, etc.)
should only exist in the virtual machine, and home dirs
with working files may better be served off the network
share altogether.
I wonder how well this idea works in real life?
In particular, how well does a virtualized networked
or "local" homedir work for typical software compile
tasks (r/w access to many small files)?
7) I'm also interested in the scenario of VMs spawned
from "golden image" and destroyed after logout and/or
manually (i.e. after "golden image"'s update/patching).
It would be interesting to enable the cloned machine
to get an individual hostname, join the Windows domain
(if applicable), promote the user's login to the VM's
local Administrators group or assign RBAC profiles or
sudoer permissions, perhaps download the user's domain
roaming profile - all prior to the first login on this
VM...
Is there a way to pass some specific parameters to the
VM cloning method (i.e. the user's login name, machine's
hostname and VM's OS)?
If not, perhaps there are some best-practice suggestions
on similar provisioning of cloned hosts during first boot
(this problem is not as new as VDI, anyways)?
8) How great is the overhead (quantitative or subjective)
of VM desktops overall (if more specific than values in
sizing guide on Wiki)? I've already asked on HDD/networking
above. Other aspects involve:
How much more RAM does a VM-executing process typically
use than is configured for the VM? In the JavaOne demo
webinar screenshots I think I've seen a Windows 7 host
with 512Mb RAM, and a VM process sized about 575Mb.
The Wiki suggests 1.2 times more. Is this a typical value?
Are there "hidden costs" in other VBox processes?
How efficiently is the CPU emulated/provided (if the VBox
host has the relevant VT-x extensions), especially for
such CPU-intensive tasks as compilation?
*) Question from our bookkeeping team:
Does creating such a POC lab and testing it in office's
daily work (placing some employees or guests in front of
virtual desktops instead of real computers or SR Solaris
desktops) violate some licenses for Sun VDI, VirtualBox,
Sun Rays, Sun SGD, Solaris, etc? (The SRSS and SSGD are
licensed; Solaris is, I guess, licensed by the download
form asking for how many hosts we have).
Since all of the products involved (sans SGD) don't need
a proof of license to install and run, and they can be
downloaded somewhat freely (after quickly clicking thru
the tomes of license agreements), it's hard for a mere
admin to reply such questions ;)
If there are some limits (# of users, connections, VMs,
CPUs, days of use, whatever) which differentiate a legal
deployment for demo (or even legal for day-to-day work)
from a pirated abuse - please let me know.
//Jim
Edited by: JimKlimov on Jul 7, 2009 10:59 AM
Added licensing question

CIF interface: Error transfering material plant

Hello Experts,
I am traying to transfer a material plant across CIF interface. The problem is, when I activate the integration model, it fails. The error message is exactly this: "Location does not exist for external location 1790 , type 1040, and BSG BS"
Any idea what the reson could be?
Many thanks
Aban

Hello Aparna,
I created a new IM and trying to CIF only location. But this time I get another error message complaing that location 1790 type 1002 already exists:
"Text: Location 1790 of type 1002 (BSG BSG1) already exist"
I checked the table /SAPAPO/LOC in APO and realized that location 1790 exists as type 1001. Now I changed it and would like to CIF it as type 1002.
How should I proceed if I change the location type from 1001 to 1002?
Another question: I tried to debug the CIF transfer by implementing an endlos loop in include "ZXCIFU08" (enhancement CIFLOC01) but this seems to have no effect. Is this the right enhancement (on ECC side)?
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Aban

Users logging on via CIF's lose login capability

Multiple Netware 6.5 sp7 servers, with CIF's configured to offer windows
shares to computers that do not use Novell Client.
For years now, I've been able to set up XP Pro x64, Vista Business (x86 &
x64) and Windows 7 (x86 & x64) systems so that they log in and map drives
via the "Net Use" command. For instance, if I have a Netware server located
at 10.10.20.5, it has a share named M_Drive and user BOB has been set up
using iManager so that he has access to said server and folder, I could map
a drive on one of the aforementioned systems by using the following command
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Running that command would result in the appearance of an M drive on the
workstation with Bob's access rights.
If you were to go to the Netware server that Bob just logged into and go to
the connections screen for the Monitor NLM (or access connections via Remote
Desktop) you would see that user BOB had a connection; however, no
information regarding the IP address that BOB was connected from would be
available. This connection would be the type that isn't preceded by a "*".
eg the connection is listed as "BOB.CONTEXT" as opposed to "*BOB.CONTEXT"
Anyways, starting yesterday, random users on my network are losing the
ability to connect using the aforementioned method. Bob will try to log in
and get an error message. Trying to access \\10.10.20.5 from Windows
Explorer returns an error. If I check Connections, I find that there are
multiple "*BOB.CONTEXT" connections, but no "BOB.CONTEXT" one. Clearing the
"*" connections will have no effect in permitting BOB to connect.
If I go to other machines, even ones with the Novell Client, and try and
login as BOB or use the aforementioned drive mapping technique, Iit fails.
If on a machine that won't allow BOB to connect to the Novell server I use
another users' name and password, the connection works.
Thus, the problem is at the Novell server and is particular to a given user.
The "problem" user will change from day to day.
If several hours later I try logging in as my problem user, it works.
1) Anyone encountered a problem like this one?
2) Is there a setting within Netware 6.5 sp7 which controls the length of
time that a disconnected user's connection is kept "live"? If the system
"naturally" eventually releases these problem users, maybe I can do
something to make the release happen earlier.
3) Does performing a DSRepair sound like a good idea?
4) Is the Netware 6.5 sp8 update still available? Wondering if installing
that might resolve the problem.
I look forward to your response.

On Fri, 14 May 2010 17:56:18 +0000, Phillip Armitage wrote:
> 3) Does performing a DSRepair sound
> like a good idea?
No. You've not, so far, provided any information that points to a problem
in eDirectory.
> 4) Is the Netware 6.5 sp8 update still available?
Yes.
> Wondering if installing that might resolve the problem.
It might. I'd certainly try it, and the post-sp8 updates, before spending
much more time troubleshooting this.
David Gersic dgersic_@_niu.edu
Novell Knowledge Partner http://forums.novell.com
Please post questions in the newsgroups. No support provided via email.

For Purchase order CIF Problem

Hi APO experts
For PO, to change the INCO Terms Fields and this Field has added in User Exit of CIFPUR01 of structure custom Structure CIFPUORCUSe (No other Fields has changed) then CIF the PO INCO Terms Has not updated in APO System..
Suppose If iI change the QTy value then PO Data has updated in APO System ..
Please let me know what is best solutions..
Thanks
Kanth

Hi Vikas,
For INCO Terms fields in not in User exit EXIT_SAPLMEAP_001 (enchancement Name is CIFPUR01 we can add the custom fields in structure CIFPUORCUS I added Custom fields in both systems
My question is suppose if I change the INCO terms only Then CIF won't trigger and IF i change the QTy value then CIFis trigger ...
Please let me know how to do CIF Trigger if I change the INFO Terms no other field..
Thanks,
Kanth

A extra field, which not evaluate in APO - R/3 via CIF Interface

Hello all,
in one of our project a question came up:
Scenario:
A customer send us the requirements for weeks as an xml file. This xml file contains a field with a specific number for this requirements (each file as the same number). We send all information to APO - BW. And than via CIF - Interface into the R/3 System.
So far so good, but now we have to send back a suggestion to the customer include the certain amount and delivery date and the specific number field. The certain amount and the delivery date ...-> no problem. But we lost the specifc number. The reason behind is, that our APO Specialist mentioned, that are no possibilities to bring the field from the APO-BW via CIF to R/3. But I couldn't belive it.
So my question is now, maybe it is possible to put the number in a field, which we can pass-through features to R/3.
Thanks
Kind regards
Stephan

Hi Stephan - I also agree that this is not standard functionality in SAP. However you can move customer specific data from APO into R3 using the CIF with CIF enhancements. Most or all transactional data enhancements have extension tables where SAP customers can move non-SAP defined data through the CIF. Look in customizing for enhancements and also identify the APO-BW tables where your data is stored. A developer should be able to take it from there. One thing to think about is where in R3 you want to store this data - make sure there is a field available or some logic to receive the data.
Regards
Andy

[SOLVED]Setting up Arch to read CIFS shares but no smb.conf

I am trying to ACCESS CIFS shares from another computer. Other clients can access these shares without issue. I am NOT trying to host files from Arch.
Reading I have done: wiki pages on SAMBA and SMBCLIENT.
Reading the SMBCLIENT wiki page, it apparently states that only the package smbclient should be installed, which I did.
But, following the SMBCLIENT wiki, it shows to issue:
#smbclient -L
#smbclient
both error saying smb.conf can not be read. BTW, is the -L to just list the shares available from any place?
Questions:
1. So, should smb.conf be created to use smbclient? This package evidently does not install smb.conf in any form.
2. Does the SAMBA package need to be installed to use smbclient? Samba does install a smb.conf.something.
Any tips you have so I can read CIFS shares will be appreciated.
Thanks
steve.
Last edited by stevepa (2012-11-30 03:22:49)

Reporting my results at resolving my issues
1. installing smbclient provides the described ftp-like environment while accessing CIFS shares. It works fine. I used
$smbclient //OMV/steve -Usteve%omv
to access my share on the OMV server. I could list, get and put files. I still get the message about no smb.conf file but it works.
2. Installing gvfs-smb package allowed Thunar to display the shares. In my case, I do a Ctrl-L and then smb://OMV/steve and I can display the shared content perfectly! Click to remember password or it apparently does not work.
Hope this helps someone.
Steve.

Viewing CIF errors in SMQ2 - Technical - ABAP

Hello All - I am CIFing the Master data from ECC to APO and i am getting the error. I was debugging the CIF from SMQ2 and i donot see any issue in the code but i am still getting the error in SMQ2 and i could not see the complete error message in SMQ2.Because of the limited space for the field Status in SMQ2.
My question is there any way to read/view the entire message in QRFC ? What is the Tcode ? or Where can i see the CIF error messages in APO..
Appreciate your help.
Thanks,
Venky.
Edited by: GVP2011 on Mar 21, 2011 3:42 AM

Hi Venky,
You can see the CIF error messages in /SAPAPO/C3 transaction in APO and CFG1 in ECC.Here you can directly enter the External ID from SMQ2 or you can see all the error messages via Object "CIFSCM".
I hope this will help you.
Regards,
Saurabh

CIF blocks with multiple R/3 systems

Hi,
We are in SCM V5 and we have two R/3 systems connected to one APO system. Theya re two different BSGs, with totally different integration models as well.
We are using APO outbound queues for both the R/3 systems.
The question is, does a CIF block from one R/3 system block the order from other R/3 system?
Example:
I have a planned order PO1 created in APO that is bound to go to R/3 system R1. This order is now stuck in SMQ1 in APO.
I create another planned order PO2 that is bound to go to other R/3 system R2 from the same APO system.
Does the PO1 block PO2?? or are they separate?
I would appreciate if you can substantiate that with some reference.
Thanks.
Edited by: Raj G on Nov 5, 2008 8:24 AM

I have not seen such a configuration myself offlate, but based on theoretical knowledge one outbound queue block to one R3 system should not interfere with another outbound queue to another R3 system. The queues are RFC destination specific. INtegration models are also specific to a destination R3 system. However there may be elements that are common - mostly BASIS level settings. Not sure if it interferes with the application.

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