Database storage of value mapping information

Hi,
Wouldn't it be easier to maintain the information storage in a real database instead of value mapping?
Is that technically feasable?
May a Java method access such a database from a mapping?
regards
Yann

Hi Yann,
Basically value mappings in XI can be maintained both at design and configuration time. There is also a third option, which allows the value mapping to be replicated into XI runtime cache from external sources. Refer to this blog for steps needed to replicate the value mapping from external source into the XI runtime cache.
/people/sreekanth.babu2/blog/2005/02/23/value-mapping-replication
Regards.
Praveen

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I have a query here.
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Executes a value mapping for the value I entered. In the function attributes, assign the both input value I and source value O to a representation in the value-mapping table. In this way, you can assign source and target structure fields to a representation. You complete the value-mapping table on the configuration maintenance screen in the Integration Builder. Since these entries are not available at design time, the mapping result is just an estimate when you test the message mapping.
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Maintaining the mapping information and writing update routine to populate

Hi,
Its my requriment to get the transactional data from r/3, here in the transaction data i will get the data in following format
(for example)
Material no. Sales value quantity ..
M001 100 2
M002 200 4
M003 150 3
now my requirement is to take the quantity per material number and multiply it with a factor called as SBU factor
.. my problem is that this SBU factor is not maintained in r/3 means the mapping information of material no. with its relative SBU factor is not maintained. So i thought of two option as this mapping is fixed means it will not changed so we can maintain in bw system through 1) one time upload of flat file or
2) maintaning a table in BW with mapping
so users agreed to give the mapping information as follows
Material no. SBU factor
M001 5
M002 10
M003 7
now while uplading the transational data i need to take the SBU factor per material that is maintained through flat file or table and multiply it with quantity and store it quantity.
for example(the result i need in cube)
material no. sales value quantity(quantity * SBU)
M001 100 2*5=10
M002 200 4*10=40
M003 150 3*7=21
so i can do this at two level at transfer rules or update rules.
I need following clarification
1) shall i load the mapping information through flat file or maintain it in table?
2) If i will do the transformation at update rules so wht routine (start or update) should i write to get the SBU factor per material and do transformations
If possible send the sample routine.
Pls reply ASAP.
Thanks
Saleem.

Hi Saleem,
Nimesh is right..Do the multiplication in the Update rules.
If the data for this SBU factor is less and is always fixed, you can go for one time upload, else set up a RFC Call to load this data to BW from R/3 if no datasource for the same exist.
Else you can also maintain a table in BW, in which one time upload could be done by writing an ABAP, or manually. And then you can provide authorizsation to add more values to it, so that the table can be maintained.
And then in Update rules, use the table for look up and get the SBU Factor per material.
Some thing like
Select * from the <ODS table or Table name> into <internal table>
Loop at Data_Package.
Read table <internal table> for all values in Data_Package where internal table-Material = Data_package-MAterial.
If sy-subrc = 0.
Sales Value = Sales Value * internal table-SBU Factor.
ENDIF.
MODIFY DATA_PACKAGE.
ENDLOOP.
You might need to make more changes to this code as required.
Assign points if useful
Regards
Rohit

Accessing values during runtime in value mapping

Hi all,
We have a specific requirement , where in we have a set of fields coming from the source system. All the fields have values expect few. The few which don't have values are reserved for future use, and for each source field there is a corresponding target value and we need map them.
We have used value mapping here, but it doesn't work for fields which don't have values.
We have thought of accessing the fields which do not have values, dynamically or at runtime by connecting the database of the source system.
Is it possible to do this, if yes, please provide with your inputs and alternatives.
thanks,
younus

Go through this:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/en/13/ba20dd7beb14438bc7b04b5b6ca300/frameset.htm
To implement Value Mapping, following activities have to be performed:
1. Register Java Proxies. This is one time activity for each installation. Following URL has to be called for registering asynchronous replication scenario:
http://<Server>:<Port>/ProxyServer/register?ns=http://sap.com/xi/XI/System&interface=ValueMappingReplication&bean=localejbs/sap.com/com.sap.xi.services/ValueMappingApplication&method=valueMappingReplication
2. Application Programming: ABAP program has to be written to perform following tasks:
a. Read Value Mapping data from table.
b. Call Outbound Proxy to push the data into a message to Integration Server.
3. Configuration of Replication scenario in Integration Directory.
Regards,
Sarvesh

Value Mapping and Lookups

Hi all,
I know something about Value Mapping.
And I heard that the Lookups (DB and RFC) are types of Value Mapping.
I am confused how value mapping is related to lookups.
Request you all to provide me some information regd.this.
Thank you.
Regards
Krishna.

Hi,
All the links above are quite useful in understanding Value Mapping and RFC lookups.
Both solutions could be used for getting values from R3 tables at runtime. However, there's difference in way both operate.
RFC lookup is performed at runtime, since it is executed from the UDF in message mapping. Thus at runtime, call is made to R3 table and value is fetched.
In value mapping replication, Value Mapping program is run from SAP R3 and values from table are updated in XI Runtime Cache. Thus at runtime, while performing message mapping, call to R3 system is not made. Values are available in XI cache.
Thus, it is quite obvious that Value Mapping is more performace efficient since it doesn't make a call to SAP R3 system for each incoming message. If the table data does not change very frequently(since for every change value mapping scenario has to be run for update of XI cache), and it is not very large, then it is a good option as compared to RFC lookup.
However, in cases where either data is frequently changing in table or the volume of data is too large, RFC lookup should be prefered choice.
Hope it would be helpful.
Thanks,
Bhavish
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Value Mapping in XI. Is it a curse or blessing?

Dear Experts,
We are using XI extensively for few B2B scenarios, we are using Value mapping in XI extensively to map the values of like Material,valuation type etc.
We are not finding the value mapping user freindly to deal with as now the load is increasing.
1. I would like to know is there any alternative for this in XI.
2. Please provide me the detail help of Value mapping, what more i can do to make it flexible. All documents on value mapping is wlecome.
thanks and regards,
Ravi Siddam

Hi,
>>>2. Please provide me the detail help of Value mapping, what more i can do to make it flexible
it's always good to ask en experienced XI consultant before making decitions like storing material mapping
in value mapping table
this is not a place to do it:
a) how can business users add some more values ? (do business users have access to ID?)
b) SAP bast practice documents say that VM tables should not be used for high volumes
if you do the material mapping there are two ways:
either map in sender/receiver system
or use the SOA approach and do a sync call in a mapping to a MDM database
so my proposal - remove value mapping now for material mapping as you will do it later anyway
Regards,
Michal Krawczyk

Value Mapping replication issue

Hi PI Experts,
I am working on the Value mapping replication scenario using Z-table created in R/3 system.
I have configured the value mapping Replication Out Abap proxy.
I am getting the following error :
Audit Log for Message: 4d404b41-39e4-0083-e100-80008b3557e6
Time Stamp Type Description
2011-01-27 07:56:19 Information The message was successfully received by the messaging system. Protocol: XI URL: http://gendevhrcx51.unix.appliarmony.net:54000/MessagingSystem/receive/JPR/XI Credential (User): PIAPPLUSER
2011-01-27 07:56:19 Information Using connection JPR. Trying to put the message into the receive queue.
2011-01-27 07:56:19 Information Message successfully put into the queue.
2011-01-27 07:56:19 Information The message was successfully retrieved from the receive queue.
2011-01-27 07:56:19 Information The message status was set to DLNG.
2011-01-27 07:56:19 Information Java Proxy Runtime (JPR) accepted the message.
2011-01-27 07:56:19 Error JPR could not process the message. Reason: Cannot locate proxy bean ValueMappingApplication.
2011-01-27 07:56:19 Error Delivering the message to the application using connection JPR failed, due to: com.sap.engine.interfaces.messaging.api.exception.MessagingException: Error processing inbound message. Exception: Cannot locate proxy bean ValueMappingApplication.
2011-01-27 07:56:19 Information The message status was set to WAIT.
2011-01-27 07:56:19 Information The asynchronous message was successfully scheduled to be delivered at Thu Jan 27 08:01:19 CET 2011.
I have followed the threads :
1) /people/udo.martens/blog/2009/04/03/value-mapping-replication-scenario
2) ValueMappingReplication in PI 7.1
3) How to Perform Value Mapping u2013 A Walkthrough -> Sarath Chandra Kandadai
which had similar issue but could not make any headway.
Questions :
1) Are there any specific PIAPPLUSER authorizations required ,I have configured the CC as per the 3rd thread.
2) There is an issue with SLD access when I look at the JPR monitoring,could be the possible reason.
SLD access SLD host:port = gendevhrcx51:54000
Error getting JPR configuration from SLD. Exception: No entity of class SAP_BusinessSystem for DHX.SystemHome.gendevhrcx51 found
No access to get JPR configuration
I have refered to the Note : 809420 and asked the basis team to look into this.
I am running out of ideas ,request you guys to help on this issue.
Thanks
-Alok

Hi Alok,
i have similar error. Here the error:
30.12.2013 20:40:17.789
Information
Java Proxy Runtime (JPR) accepted the message.
30.12.2013 20:40:17.871
Error
JPR could not process the message. Reason: No remote bean found for reference of class com.sun.proxy.$Proxy352.
30.12.2013 20:40:17.876
Error
Delivering the message to the application using connection JPR failed, due to: com.sap.engine.interfaces.messaging.api.exception.MessagingException: Error processing inbound message. Exception: No remote bean found for reference of class com.sun.proxy.$Proxy352.
30.12.2013 20:40:17.911
Information
The asynchronous message was successfully scheduled to be delivered at Mon Dec 30 20:45:17 CET 2013.
I have registered the inbound interfaces:
http://sap.com/xi/XI/System#ValueMappingReplication = localejbs/sap.com/com.sap.xi.services/ValueMappingApplication:valueMappingReplication
http://sap.com/xi/XI/System#ValueMappingReplicationSynchronous = localejbs/sap.com/com.sap.xi.services/ValueMappingApplicationSynchronous:valueMappingReplicationSynchronous
2 interfaces found
But somehow the bean is not found and gave me the error :
JPR could not process the message. Reason: No remote bean found for reference of class com.sun.proxy.$Proxy352.
Can you tell me in detail what you have done to resolve the problem? I send the test data from soapui using the outbound interface ValueMappingReplicationOut provided by the content in SAP BASIS 7.11.
Thanks,
Ly-Na

Issue with Value Mapping table

Hi
I want to upload a external value mapping table to XI.
I do not want to code for it on the SAP R/3 side. and there might be more than 2000 value mappings. so can we upload a external mapping table.
Is it possible?? if yes, then how??.
Thanks
Nikhil

XI 3.0
Hi,
first of all one helpful information:
You can see all data of the value mapping tables using the
runtime workbench: Go to the IntegrationBuilder->
Integration Monitoring->Cache Monitoring, select 'Search
for Value-Mapping' and choose your context.
The value mapping tables are located in the J2EE part of
XI. You have to send your value mapping data to an Java proxy
located in the J2EE part. First, the inbound proxies
(synchronous and asynchronous) need to be activated.
There are two urls, named in the docu, you have to call
from a web browser:
(asynchronous replication scenario)
http://<Server>:<Port>/ProxyServer/register?ns=http://sap.com/xi/XI/System&interface=ValueMappingReplicationSynchronous&bean=localejbs/sap.com/com.sap.xi.services/ValueMappingApplicationSynchronous&method=valueMappingReplicationSynchronous
(synchronous replication scenario)
http://<Server>:<Port>/ProxyServer/register?ns=http://sap.com/xi/XI/System&interface=ValueMappingReplication&bean=localejbs/sap.com/com.sap.xi.services/ValueMappingApplication&method=valueMappingReplication
You only need to perform this step once (for each
installation).
If you already have a sender for the mapping data, the
next step is to configure the scenario in the directory
Create a communication channel with
Adapter type: XI
Transport protocol: HTTP 1.0
Message-Protocol: XI 3.0
Adapter-Engine: Integration Server
and host name and http port of the XI J2EE Engine and Path Prefix: /MessagingSystem/receive/JPR/XI
The user XIAPPLUSER has the required permissions.
For an asynchronous communication you can use the
inbound interface ValueMappingReplication from the namespace http://sap.com/xi/XI/System.
In that namespace there are also outbound interfaces you
can use to generate a sender proxy and synchronous
interfaces for the same purpose. Set the created communication channel as the receiver channel.
You may need a mapping and so on depending on your
sender. If you use the provided outbound interfaces there
is no mapping required.
The Data:
You can create your own GUIDs using some function like GUID_CREATE in ABAP. You don't need to declare the context you use. Something like http://mycompany.com/Test should be ok.
A sample in ABAP:
CRM and R3 are the names of the business systems.
data: lcl_value_mapping type ref to co_svmr_value_mapping_rep,
 ls_value_mappings type svmr_value_mapping_replication,
 ls_item type svmr_value_mapping_rep_item,
 lcl_system_fault type ref to cx_ai_system_fault.
ls_item-operation = 'Insert'.
ls_item-group_id = '315286378563858425463215845123548'.
ls_item-context = 'http://Test'.
ls_item-identifier-scheme = 'FormOfAddress'.
ls_item-identifier-agency = 'CRM'. <- Business System A
ls_item-identifier-value = '2'.
append ls_item to ls_value_mappings-value_mapping_replication-item.
ls_item-operation = 'Insert'.
Use the same guid for another value of the same group
ls_item-group_id = '315286378563858425463215845123548'.
ls_item-context = 'http://Test'.
ls_item-identifier-scheme = 'FormOfAddress'.
ls_item-identifier-agency = 'R3'. <- Business System B
ls_item-identifier-value = '1'.
append ls_item to ls_value_mappings-value_mapping_replication-item.
create object lcl_value_mapping.
try.
 call method lcl_value_mapping->execute_asynchronous
 exporting
 output = ls_value_mappings.
 commit work.
 catch cx_ai_system_fault into lcl_system_fault.
 write: 'Error: ', lcl_system_fault->errortext.
endtry.
See the XI documentation at SAP XI Design and Configuration Time -> Configuration -> Value Mapping -> Value mapping Replication for Mass Data.
Hope that helps.
Regards,
Christian

ABAP program and FB for value mapping replication

Hi,
we are using a 40B system and I want to use the value mapping replication in XI. To refill the data into the XI database I must write an ABAP and a function module to transfer the data out of R/3 into XI (via RFC). Has anybody an example how the program (and the FB) must look like? i.e I want to read table mvke and extract the materialnumber and the prodhierarchy.
Thanks and best regards
Arnold

Hi Arnold,
First you need a table type with a structure like follows:
operation
groupid
context
identifier
agency
scheme
(corresponding to the Interface ValueMappingReplication)
All used data elements should have type string or charXX
for example: operation - char10, groupid - char32, rest - char120
Next you create a function module with attribute 'remote-enabled module'.
The import parameter is your new table structure.
Next you create an ABAP program. Here an example:
report z_value_mapping .
tables mvke.
data:
p_value_mapping type zvalue_mapping,
p_value_mapping_table type zvalue_mapping_table.
p_value_mapping-operation = 'Insert'.
p_value_mapping-context = 'http://xi.com/Material'.
select * from mvke where matnr between '170' and '501'.
check not mvke-prodh is initial.
* Create a value mapping group to join two entries.
* use a unique 32 digit number.
concatenate '00000000000000' mvke-prodh into p_value_mapping-groupid.
translate p_value_mapping-groupid using ' 0'.
* Store the mapping source as first entry to the group
p_value_mapping-identifier = mvke-matnr.
p_value_mapping-agency = 'SenderAgency'.
p_value_mapping-scheme = 'MATNR'.
append p_value_mapping to p_value_mapping_table.
* Store the mapping target as second entry to the group
p_value_mapping-identifier = mvke-prodh.
p_value_mapping-agency = 'ReceiverAgency'.
p_value_mapping-scheme = 'PRODH'.
append p_value_mapping to p_value_mapping_table.
endselect.
* Push data to XI
call function 'Z_VALUE_MAPPING' in background task
destination 'IS_XID'
exporting
value_mapping = p_value_mapping_table.
commit work.
Import the RFC to the Integration Builder, create a mapping between your RFC and the interface ValueMappingReplication.
Check this Blog for additional steps:
/people/sreekanth.babu2/blog/2005/02/23/value-mapping-replication
Choose names for context, agency and scheme which are useful your scenario.
Regards
Stefan

Runtime value mapping

hey ,
The requirement is like a record is being accessed from the database through a JDBC adapter into XI.In the record there are different fields concatenated as a string and these fields are to be mapped to the target side i.e Idoc which can be done by extracting the fields according to the length using substring function.Now, some src fields say   "code" "sign" "cause "
are having some combination of values and these combinations are deciding the value of other fields Mv_TYP MV_REAS COSTCENTER GM_CODE MVT_ IND
in the Idoc .i.e runtime value of these three fields is deciding the value of other fields in the Idoc.
e.g
Source
Description Sign Cause Code
1PO/STO            +   1     none
2rvrs PO/STO   -   1     none
3returngoods   +   1     none
4RevrsRtrnGoods     - 1     none
5RvrsScrap     + 1     none
6Qty2Qlty     - 6     none
Corresponding target
Mv_TYP MV_REAS COSTCENTER GM_CODE MVT_ IND
101     none               01     B
102     none               01     B
202     1072     511100          03
201     1072     511100          03
552                    03
322     none               06
How to do the value mapping so as to have the runtime value of src in the target fields in the Idoc

Hi Indu !
If your mapping values are fixed, and a few, you can put them manually in the Integration Repository, using the standard FixValues function within graphical mapping.
Otherwise, you can use the ValueMapping standard function of graphical mapping to access Value Mapping Groups (loaded by hand or dynamically) in Integration Directory.
If this kind of value mapping doesn't fit your requirements, you can call an RFC or JDBC query via an UDF to query an external data source to map src values to target values.
Regards,
Matias.
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Conversion exits before value mapping in AIF

Hi All
I'm trying to use conversion exits before mapping in define value mapping, where I want to truncate leading zeroes in the source field before the value mapping is executed.
I'm using the conversion exit 'ALPHA' (internal->external) to achieve this, but the leading zeroes do not get truncated. Below is an example-
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Data Element for conversion:
Direction: Internal->External
Source Value: 0000012345
Expected Value after conversion: 12345
Actual Value after conversion: 0000012345
A similar issue Error in reading a value from database table is noted here, however note 1892571 that is suggested does not seem to resolve the issue I'm facing.
Am I missing something here?
Regards
Chandra

Hi Glenn Bumanlag,
I think the values that you have given for source values (Agency and scheme)
and Target values (Agency and scheme) may be mismatching so kindly chek that...even i got the same error in the past..........
If you the this problem kindly change it accordingly and also refresh the cache once you that with this.........
Kindly follow the below mentioned link and check if you have followed these steps.
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/00ee347e-aabb-2a10-b298-d15a1ebf43c5
Thanks
Sai
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Value Mapping Table - XI MDM Design Question

Hi All,
I have a scenario as :
When XI receives data from a sender system,before sending data to receiver system (in this case MDM),XI is supposed to check some fields in MDM and depending on the result XI should decide whether to send the records or not.
Now,in this case I have two options:
1.After recieving data from sender system ,from XI mapping call a webservice(webservice is supposed to go to MDM and check the fields and give the result),then depending on the result XI will decide whether to send or not.
2.After receving data from sender system,from XI mapping access a value look table in XI from a UDF and then check the result,then depending on the result XI will decide whether to send or not.
I have pointed out some glitches for every option:
1.First considering volume of XI source message( approx. 800 records per message),then MDM database records (approx 40000 or 50000).Hence once XI receives message XI will have to go to MDM for every record and every time it will search among 40000 MDM records using webservice.
This will effect performance as for every record webservice will be called and again it might face connection problems.
2.In this option XI will have to store all the 40000 records from MDM in the value lookup table.Again,how to synch up this value lookup table with MDM database?
This table has to be a copy of MDM database which changes everyday.
Is it ok to store around 40000 records in XI's value lookup table?
Considering above points can you please help me to find out optimum solution?
Thanks,
Shweta.

>>Is it ok to store around 40000 records in XI's value lookup table?
its advised to use value mapping for static values,not for dynamic values,since you will have changes everyday you should not use Value mapping here.
now coming to your first approach,why not copy this table from MDM to XI(i know XI is not the owner of data,but if its an internal MDM server,you should be able to do it),once the table is copied in XI itself,you can simply use ABAP mapping to create the receiver structure.
the above approach looks good to me as long as the MDM guys don't have any problem with XI storing the data as well and you sync up the table between XI and MDM periodically
Thanx
Aamir

Value Mapping Replication...need help.....

Hi everyone,
I want to get the value mapping table filled by the value stored in my excelsheet.
Would it be possible to do that without java proxy?
~Thanks
Pranav

Thanks Michal for your valuable response.
I am not much comfortable with Java .... read some docs on java proxy and seems that its kind of time consuming to develop java proxy.
So for me, ABAP proxy is the only choice.. (which is also not my area)
I have gone through the eLearning link for Value mapping and I think, I have to create REPORT in ABAP which would invoke the ValueMappingReplication class.
Am I right ?
Do you have any doc link which could assist me writing code in ABAP to populate information into the valuemappingreplication objects...(fields) ?
I appreciate for your help and time.
Thanks,
Pranav

Fixed value mapping

Any one there to explain me what is fixed value mapping Coz when i used LOOK UPS , they told me you can used fixed value mapping instead of it , as i was having only to values , please send me a detail explanation abt it thanking you
sridhar

There is a lot of difference between fixed value mapping and Lookup:
Fixed value mapping is used when you need to populate the some differnt target value based on some inpur value.
Take example
I have used fixed value M:
My input is ABC
Now for this input I wanted to poupulate some different values.
Suppose when A comes in File it should map the target value to America.
When B come it should map to Belgium
and C -> California
Now come to Looup:
What is Lookup and why we need:
Within an XI mapping it is a common requirement to be able to perform data lookups on-the-fly. In particular, there may be a need to look up some data that is maintained in an R/3 application.
In the error handling topic we have seen the different validations which need to be performed on file. This can be done through Lookup.
Some use cases:
Look up material number from table MARA.
Look up cost center budget.
Look up employee information.
Look up unit-of-measure (UOM) information from table t006a.
Lookup for raising an alert.
The purpose of the lookup may be:
To perform application-level validation of the data, before sending it to the backend.
To populate fields of the XML document with some additional data found in the backend application.
This is a form of value transformation.
The "value mappings" offered by XI are not adequate in this case, since the data would have to be manually entered in the Integration Directory.
There are two ways in which we can do lookup:
Call lookup method from GUI mapping.
Call lookup method from XSLT mapping.
I think u got ur answer
Thnx
Chirag

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