Conversion Agent By Informatica and Versions

Hi Everyone,
I need some help in relation to conversion agent. Quick back ground doing an implementation using PI 7.1, Seeburger FTP adapter and Conversion Agent (The incoming message is EDIFACT + X12).
Now I need to validate this EDIFACT message and convert it to XML for which we are planning to use Conversion Agent.
The confusion I have is that apparently there are libraries of Conversion agent which can do strict validations on edifact while converting to XML however basis team keeps on giving me the Content Master (eclipse + converison agent plugin bundle) by itemsfield and I don't see these new libraries or strict libraries in there.
What i am confused with now is where can i get the the latest version of ConversionAgent, will it have libraries (new libraries) as part of it???? is there such a thing?
regards
Also whats the difference between ConversionAgent by Itemfield vs Conversion Agent by Informatica really?

Hi Again,
Please have a look at this url
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nwpi71/helpdata/en/43/fc39c16bfb025ee10000000a1553f7/frameset.htm
then there is a link for "Conversion Agent libraries"
in that PDF page 18 is talking about two sets of libraries.
That should clear up what i am trying to say.
I am highly thankful for quick responses.
regards

Similar Messages

Conversion Agent by Informatica - serializing mappers

Hi Guys,
I need to create a Conversion agent module (To be called with in Comm channel of XI).
The module will be constructed of a parser and 2 mappers.
1st parser will parse a CSV file to XML.
2nd mapper will change the XML structure from non-hierarchical to Hierarchy XML .
3rd map will perform Additional transformation before the SAP PI standard adapter module is called.
please elaborate - does this method of transformation can be carried out using the ItemField tool.
and if so, how (what function should I call+short explanation)

> Will the standard CallAdapter module be able to still mange
> the archive of the original mesasge although the ouput of each converison module
> is different?
Yes, as long as the output of each stage is compatabile with the input of the next stage. You can imagine this as a module chain with each step in a serail fashion.
>Original file - CSV.
> Parser - output XML
> Mapper - output XML
> Need to archive the roginal CSV..
You can do this while you are picking up the file using the File adapter. Please see the below link. you have to set the processing mode as "Archive".
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/e3/94007075cae04f930cc4c034e411e1/frameset.htm

SAP Conversion Agent for PI 7.1 EHP 1 and Windows 2008 Support

Hello
I have read that some people were able to run SAP Conversion Agent on a PI 7.1 EHP1 Installation on Windows 2008 Sever. But in the Product Availability Matrix there is no support for 2008 yet.
In the SAP Library (http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nwpi71/helpdata/en/43/fc39c16bfb025ee10000000a1553f7/frameset.htm) under the release notes for SAP Conversion Agent there is still version 8.5, but when I install the actual Support Package I have Conversion Agent 8.6 running and according to information on the informatica.com site this version is running under 2008!
Has anybody clear and actual information about which OS the newest SAP Conversion Agent for PI 7.1 EHP1 supports? Or has anyone experiance on Conversion Agent and Windows 2008 Server?
Thanks
Christoph

Hi Mark
Thanks for your reply! Fact is that in the actual Package (SP06) the version of Conversion Agent Engine supplied is not 8.5.5 as in the SAP Note mentioned, it is version 8.6.0:
C:\Documents and Settings\pi1adm>CM_console -v
Engine-Version: 8.6.0(Build:30)
Engine-Syntaxversion:4.00.10
I will oben a ticket for that ...
Regards
Christoph

SAP Conversion Agent: HL7 library project could not be executed

Hi experts
I'm using SAP Conversion Agent version 4.3.0 on a PI 7.0. I'm trying to use a HL7 library project. On the Conversion Agent Studio side everythings works fine: the library project is created and a test of the service with a local HL7 file was successful. After that I make the project on the Conversion Agent Studio available and copy the project from the local \SAP\ConversionAgent\ServiceDB directory to the PI Conversion Agent ServiceDB directory.
So far so good... but when I try to execute the CA project via File Sender Adapter the following error is thrown:
"Invalid service 'TEST'. Check service name and service database"
Module Exception 'com.sap.aii.af.mp.module.ModuleException: <Status><severity>4</severity><description>Invalid service 'TEST'. Check service name and service database.- for more information see file:///usr/sap/DXI/ConversionAgent/CMReports/Tmp/2009-12-23/nonexistent_U-_-63-4b17e36f-5e83/Events.cme</description><log_file>file:///usr/sap/DXI/ConversionAgent/CMReports/Tmp/2009-12-23/nonexistent_U-_-63-4b17e36f-5e83/Events.cme</log_file><Event error_code="401024" severity="error_fatal">
<description>Invalid service 'TEST'. Check service name and service database.- for more information see file:///usr/sap/DXI/ConversionAgent/CMReports/Tmp/2009-12-23/nonexistent_U-_-63-4b17e36f-5e83/Events.cme</description>
<time>N/A</time>
</Event>
</Status> caused by: com.itemfield.contentmaster.CMException' found, cause: com.itemfield.contentmaster.CMException
I also created another parser project, without HL7 libraries, this works also on Conversion Agent Studio and on PI side without any problems.
Do you have any ideas?
Thx,
manuku

Hi Conversion Agent experts,
Do you have any ideas?
Thx
manuku

Conversion Agent 7.1 - SP06

Hi SDN members,
While looking at the service mareket place , I have noticed
that there is only a SP05 for CONVERSION AGENT 7.1
and non for SP06.
Can anyone ellaborate on the subject?
Regards,
Nirmod.g

Well, I see it like this and everything work for me:
Are you logged in with your S-user account? Also I think you have to be authorized for downloading the software. Can you check under your profile, if you have some authorizations?

Conversion Agent - EDIFACT Libraries Question

Hi Everyone,
I hope someone can assist. I am using conversion agent 8.5 and using EDIFACT library withvalidations. As per the standard documentation this library can do certain validations however when i try to run it, it is not doing those validations. Secondly for some of the validations e.g. Sender Number, Receiver Number I would have to specify these details somewhere within conversion agent where it can go and have a look however I can't find that also.
Can someone please assist on this?
regards

Hi Jag,
Thank you for the help however i guess by now you would have realized that this approach is not going to work
regards
Hi Guys,
Any conversion agent expert can please help shed some light on the issue at hand please? The whole purpose of these withvalidations libraries is to do validations however for some reason they are not working e.g. UNT segment should validate the count of segments is corrects I give it wrong number just to test and it still doesn't pick it up (this was one example) but the stand library release note says it does validate. Any suggestions please? or directions?
regards

SAP Conversion Agent Studio Preview Version

Hi,
Does anyone have knowledge about SAP Conversion Agent Studio Preview Version?
I've downloaded it from SDN and it says it comes with an Eclipse version, but i doesnt.
When i try to point it to my existing Eclipse it says it needs version 2.1.2 oe 2.1.3. of Eclipse, but these are quite old. They can be downloaded from a 2004 archive site. (?)
Are there newer version of the SAP Conversion Agent Studio Preview Version?
Any suggestions are welcome.
Thx
Robert

Hi Conversion Agent experts,
Do you have any ideas?
Thx
manuku

Seeburger BIC vs Informatica Conversion Agent

Hi Experts,
I am hoping I can seek some feedback on the above mentioned subject. I am going through an implementation currently which involves EDIFACT and X12 - various message types e.g. Orders, Desadv, Invoice, Order Confirmation and a few more.
As part of the implementation we need to choose a tool to do EDI to XML conversion which can also do EDIFACT/X12 validations (syntax & semantic) plus a functional Acknowledgment.
The two final options we have chosen are Informatica's Conversion Agent and Seeburger BIC (given we are using Seeburger FTP adapter for communication already).
Now to make a final decision I was hoping if some people can share their experience (s) and give some pro's and con's for choosing one or the other please?
Any comments will be highly appreciated.
regards

Hi mimranacc,
I was hoping if someone can comment on Conversion Agent as well or if there is a white paper on the comparison of the two?
I have extensively worked on Conversion Agent. My experience has been real good with this tool. It is quite handy and easy to use.
Apart from unstructured messages from MS Word, PDF, Excel, PowerPoint etc, Conversion Agent can manage semi-structured formats like EDI, HL7, ANSI X12, COBOL and HIPA.
It consists of set of libraries that are deployed on PI's J2EE server and is accessed by AE during runtime.
The +ve points are -
1. Very easy to install and use,
2. Easily integrated with SAP PI,
3. No additional adapter required for transformation to / from XML,
4. No extra adapters installed on PI server, which enhances the performance,
5. Monitor Conversion Agent messages in Integration Server.
Unfortunately, I haven't worked with Seeburger BIC, so can't provide you a comparison.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Neetesh

How to download SAP Conversion Agent 7.1 by Informatica

Hi Gurus,
I tried to download SAP Conversion Agent 7.1 by Informatica from following location
Sap Software Download Center---->Browse Our Download Catalog----->Installations and Upgrades----->Adapters----->Informatica----->SAP CA For SAP Netweaver 7.1
but its showing No data available. Can anybody help me how to get this conversion agent.

Well, I see it like this and everything work for me:
Are you logged in with your S-user account? Also I think you have to be authorized for downloading the software. Can you check under your profile, if you have some authorizations?

XI supports EDIFACT without SAP Conversion Agent and others.

Hello.
Somebody knows the best way to convert EDIFACT message using XI?
What I can do this without using softwares of conversion like:
- SAP Conversion Agent;
- Seeburger;
- BIC Mapper and others.
Thanks very much in advance.

Hi,
See for converting the EDI XML to EDI you need to have a mapping program at the adapter module which does the conversion. For this module you need a BIC tool of seeburger which provides the different module program for EDI to XML and XML-EDI. This program needs to be deployed on XI and through adapter it has to be called for conversion.
Here is the link for your reference:
/people/ricardoandres.maienza/blog/2007/04/06/edifact-to-xml--stylus-studio-solution
http://www.stylusstudio.com/edi/EDIFACT_translate.html
The steps to convert EDI to XML / XSD can be found at the following link:
http://www.stylusstudio.com/edifact_to_xml.html
Stylus studio download link: http://www.stylusstudio.com/xml_download.html
Thanks and Regards,
Chirag Gohil

Conversion Agent and the module processor

Hi,
i have to make an offer for a client of ours. Therefore i was thinking to propose the conversion agent for developing a process module into the inbound communication channel in the XI-Scenario.
But i think i understand sth wrong or does this module substitute the normal mapping inside the XI?!
Can someone give me a hand?!
thx in advance

Jens,
Conversion Agrent is used to convert non XMl data into XML and vice versa.
For example it can read a PDF, EXCEL and conevrt it into XMl and also convert XML into EDI formats etc etc.
You use the conversion agent studio to develop the conversion mapping and then deploy it as a module. From the comm channel you call the Conversion Agrent Module which in turn runs on its own Engine and does the conversion for you.
So, if possible, you can also use conversion agent to actually read your source and create iyt in the format of the target and thgerbey replace Mapping. But, it all depends on the feasibility of what you are trying to do.
Regards,
Bhavesh

JMS Adapter and Conversion Agent

Hi,
Has anyone worked on JMS adapter and Conversion module? JMS adapter is working fine without the conversion agent module.
processing sequence is as follows
1 SAP XI JMS Adapter/ConvertJMSMessageToBinary Local Enterprise Bean convert_JMS2Bin
2 SAP XI JMS Adapter/ConvertBinaryToXMBMessage Locl Enterprise Bean convert_Bin2XI
3 sap.com/com.sap.nw.cm.xi/CMTransformBean Local Enterprise Bean 0
4 CallSapAdapter Local Enterprise Bean call_AF_MS
Also I have given the Parameter Name and value.
Let me know if i am missing something.

I have done the configuration in sender JMS channel. I even created file sender and it is not working.
when i went and checked the initialization events in http://xxxx:50000/CMViewer, I can see some errors under service Initialization.

SAP XI Conversion Agent and TIFF

Hello All,
Can anyone let us know whether SAP SCript format can be converted into TIFF extension using Conversion Agent.
Thanking you in advance
Regards
Ajay

Hi,
See for converting the EDI XML to EDI you need to have a mapping program at the adapter module which does the conversion. For this module you need a BIC tool of seeburger which provides the different module program for EDI to XML and XML-EDI. This program needs to be deployed on XI and through adapter it has to be called for conversion.
Here is the link for your reference:
/people/ricardoandres.maienza/blog/2007/04/06/edifact-to-xml--stylus-studio-solution
http://www.stylusstudio.com/edi/EDIFACT_translate.html
The steps to convert EDI to XML / XSD can be found at the following link:
http://www.stylusstudio.com/edifact_to_xml.html
Stylus studio download link: http://www.stylusstudio.com/xml_download.html
Thanks and Regards,
Chirag Gohil

Latest Version of OFA supporting Informatica and DAC

Dear All,
I was trying to find the latest version of OBI Financial Analytics Applications.
and i came across this link.
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/bi-foundation/documentation/bi-apps-098545.html
after going thru various documents here what i understood is that in the latest release of OBI i.e. 'Oracle Business Intelligence Applications 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.7)' Oracle is no more supporting Informatica and DAC configuration but it's replaced by ODI and ODI studio.
Oracle is supporting informatica in N-1 version which is 'Oracle Business Intelligence Applications Version 7.9.6.4'.
I understand if we go with latest version there may not be much help available for installation, configurations and may be known and unknown bugs.
Request experts if you could please confirm this? and what will be the best decision to go with 7.9.6.4 or 11.1.1.7 version??
thanks

ODI is not yet supported for any of the BI Applications.
The target is CY 2008 for one of the Analytic Apps to be able to use ODI.
We will continue to support Informatica going forward and recently renewed an agreement with them.
To your other questions:
1. No, INFA 8 is not yet supported but probably this CY.
2. There are some documents that cover migrating and DAC Repository, etc. Yes this process needs to be improved but it is almost impossible to capture mechanisms that could compensate for every possible choice a customer could make.

Big problem with ARD agent and versions.

This is going to be a bit lengthy so please bear with me. At my company I'm in charge of our 6 production G5 computers. My boss has permitted me to install ARD on them so that I can run the specialty programs we have on one without having to walk all the way across the department time and time again. The computers are from varying times in terms of processor speed and RAM but they are all running the same OS with all the same updates. All were running the ARD 3.0 Agent as it was in an update from apple not too long ago. I have uninstalled the agent and used a custom client install pack from ARD 2.2.
My computer is a dual 2GHz G5 and is the oldest of the 6. (here on referred to as Mac2) The other computer with problems is a dual 2.5GHz G5 and is called Mac7.
Mac2 is supposed to have the admin program on it, and I can install it but the program fails to start because it was either installed wrong or the computer needs a restart. I had this same error on my laptop at home but that is a MBP which is Intel. To solve the problem on intel computers i've been told to remove the remote-management folder from core-services and let ARD reinstall it on launch. This has not worked for the G5 at work. Furthermore at one point i could get control of Mac2 remotely from another computer, but after trying to reinstall the admin program again I cannot do that anymore. Even if i reset all ARD software and use the custom client install .pkg again.
As for Mac7, that computer was being run with the 3.0 agent on it and i could connect fine but couldn't lock the screen because of the mismatch. I did the exact same uninstall and reinstall of the ARD Agent that I did on the other computers and now I can't access that one either.
At the very least I need to be able to control these two computers, and I would like to have the Admin software work on Mac2 if possible. I see no reason why these problems should be occurring.
All systems are running 10.4.10 and have no third party remote software installed on them. On both Mac2 and 7 the ARD menu drop-down is showing as not active. All sharing preferences have been set right and there is no firewall. All accounts on both computers have been given all the rights possible for control.
If anyone has any advice please reply to this.

OK, I am still a bit confused - Mac2 is your computer, the one on which you want run the admin app to control other computers, correct? If ARD 2.2 will not start on that one, does it give an error message? I really suspect there are traces of 3.x agent causing the trouble, as I have had this problem myself. In essence, if you have version 2.2 admin, there is no reason to have 3.x agent for any reason whatsoever, it will just cause problems both on the admin and client side since Apple completely rewrote the way it works.
And, based on the first paragraph of your initial inquiry, I wonder if ARD is worth the trouble anyway, since it seems you could accomplish what you need with a simple VNC viewer (my up and coming favorite is JollysFastVNC). If you can't connect with a simple VNC viewer, you also won't be able to use ARD, as it's an extension of the VNC protocol.
However, if you want to make this work, let's work on Mac2 - follow the instructions at this page, down at the bottom: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=108021
It says: "Mac OS X 10.2 clients" but it's also the correct procedure for a complete and clean removal in 10.3 and 10.4
Then reinstall ARD 2.2 admin (you may have an earlier version installer, then install the admin updater). Don't mess with your custom client installer stuff. Just install the 2.2 admin app, and it will install the client it needs. I think this will make Mac2 work for you.

Conversion Agent By Informatica and Versions

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for