Flat file Ftp Adapter

How can a I produce a flat file with ftp adapter for a receiving application?
Source XML > Destination Flat File

I do not think that you can use any of the standard adapters directly to produce af flat file.
You might be able to use D3L, of which I do not know much. In any way I would prefer to arrange my data as XML if possible.
To solve the flat file problem I would customize the standard ftp adapter by implementing the ReceiverCustomizer interface. How to do this you can see in the ftp adapters userguide on page 3-6. I hope you have the userguide yourself. I could not google it on the internet.
By implementing this interface you are able to change the output of the ftp adapter before it is delivered.
Regards,
Peter

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XI 7.0 Flat File FTP Transfer

We have an ERP 2005-NetWeaver system installed and in process. In the XI(now called PI) we have it set up properly checked x3 by 2 different people and the SM and SLD up and configured. Our first Business Scenario was to pull an iDoc from ERP 2005 and deliver it to the PO for a Legacy non-SAP system. It eventually worked, the problem turned out to be "rights".
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.../XIREPOSITORY/* and all sub-directories to: Group;Everyone, Role: Full Control. We have done numerous other things I'm too embarrassed to even mention, yet we still get the same response:
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Sender Adapter v2703 for Party 'Holly_DataStream', Service 'HOC_Read DataStreamFile.'
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Pat
It clearly says that it dont have the directory. Also eventhough it is there might be you would have given wrong credentials. So can you please once again give and check? After this go to sxmb_moni and check whether you find any error?
In the last try to check the message display tool so that you can know till where your message has flown? You can log into the message display tool from http://<hostname>:<portno>/MessagingSystem/monitor/auditlog.jsp
Regards,
---Satish

Using relative path for in file/ftp adapter

Hi All,
How to have a relative path for file/ ftp adapter's inbound/outbound operation?
Example: Consider $ORA_HOME = /home/oracle --> This environment variable can be different on different machines
i want to drop a file in to $ORA_HOME/folder1/folder2 (Or poll for a file).
<partnerLinkBinding name="FTP">
<property name="wsdlLocation">FTP.wsdl</property>
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</partnerLinkBinding>
if i cant configure this in partner link section or in activation agent sction, how else do i achieve this?
i am using 10.1.3.* version.
Thanks in advance.
Roshan.

You can achive it using the deployment scripts if the directory is changing on the basis of the environment
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Regards,
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Process TIFF file from FTP server using File/FTP adapter

Hi,
I have a requirement to process a scanned document TIFF file from a directory on an FTP server using the File/FTP adapter and process through XI into a Web Service via a receiver SOAP adapter.
My question is can the file/FTP adapter be used to process the TIFF file into XI from an FTP server ? Also, what settings need to be made on the file adapter to allow this file to be processed into XI ?
Thanks in advance
Colin

hi colin,
TIFF is type of image file, it can be converted to binary using java mapping
refer this pdf
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/10dd67dd-a42b-2a10-2785-91c40ee56c0b
regards
Ramesh P

Quality of service in Receiver file/ftp adapter (SAP PI 7.1)?

Hi,
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Kind Regards,
Aitor

Hi,
     First, thanks all of you for your quick answers. They were helpful because we learnt a new configuration setting.
     We tried your suggestions but they didn't really fix our problem.
     Finally interface has been re-designed and we will not have to apply this logic, so no issue from our side.
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     When adapter created the files in the target directory (windows server), files had the expected timestamp in each filename. However, if we sorted windows directory contents by "Date Creation", files were sorted different that timestamp shows in the filename.
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File1_20090325-115117-169
File2_20090325-115117-174
File3_20090325-115117-180
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File2_20090325-115117-174
File1_20090325-115117-169
File3_20090325-115117-180
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Regards,
Aitor

"Message Rejection Handler" for the file/ftp adapter using fault policy

Hi guys,
We are trying to implement "Message Rejection Handler" for the file/ftp adapter using following fault policy configuration.
Fault Policy:
`````````````
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<faultPolicies xmlns="http://schemas.oracle.com/bpel/faultpolicy">
<faultPolicy version="2.0.1" id="ProcessNameGenericPolicy"
xmlns:env="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns="http://schemas.oracle.com/bpel/faultpolicy"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
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name="bpelx:bindingFault">
<condition>
<action ref="ora-rethrow-fault"/>
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<retryInterval>1</retryInterval>
<retryFailureAction ref="ora-rethrow-fault"/>
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<rethrowFault/>
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xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns="http://schemas.oracle.com/bpel/faultpolicy"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
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<faultName xmlns:medns="http://schemas.oracle.com/mediator/faults"
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name="bpelx:remoteFault">
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name="bpelx:bindingFault">
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</condition>
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<retryFailureAction ref="ora-human-intervention"/>
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<retryCount>3</retryCount>
<retryInterval>1</retryInterval>
<retryFailureAction ref="ora-rethrow-fault"/>
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<Action id="ora-rethrow-fault">
<rethrowFault/>
</Action>
<Action id="ora-human-intervention">
<humanIntervention/>
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<Action id="ora-terminate">
<abort/>
</Action>
</Actions>
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<faultPolicy version="2.0.1" id="RejectedMessages">
<Conditions> 
<faultName xmlns:rjm="http://schemas.oracle.com/sca/rejectedmessages" name="rjm:PartnerLinkName">

<condition>
<action ref="writeToFile"/> 
</condition>
</faultName>
</Conditions>
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<location>Server/Loc/path</location>
<fileName>Rejected_AJBFile_%ID%_%TIMESTAMP%.xml</fileName>
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</faultPolicy>
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Fault Binding:
``````````````
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
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xmlns="http://schemas.oracle.com/bpel/faultpolicy"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
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<service faultPolicy="RejectedMessages">
<name>PartnerLinkName</name>
</service>
<reference faultPolicy="RejectedMessages">
<name>PartnerLinkName</name>
</reference>
</faultPolicyBindings>
We have SyncFileRead partner link.
The expectation is: when the message read by SyncFileRead partner link is rejected,
that rejected message should come to particular directory in the server.
Could you please help us fixing this.
TIA.

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I have a requirement for writing files with names of the files based on a customer ID.... a dynamic name based on a value retrieved from the customer DB.
I have already tried using the dynamic file naming suggestion in the bpel dev guide, it does not work. I followed the instructions, the process fails to compile and throws "part" and "undefined variables" errors etc.
Has anyone succesfully used file/ftp adapter to write files with dynamic file names (using a varibale), not %SEQ% or %datetime% formats?
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You can create a header variable that will allow you to set the outbound file name inside the process. This variable is a message type. From the type chooser select:
Message Types
Partner Links
Outbound Partner Link
Outbound wsdl
Message Types
Imported WSDL
fileAdapterOutboundHeader.wsdl
OutboundHeader_msg
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Sender File/FTP Adapter - Matching Input to Message Type

Hi,
I have a sender file/ftp adapter which is using content conversion to generate an XML document from the contents of a text file. This works fine and when I go into the SXI Monitor I can see the XML document I expect:
<ns:DN_360BalanceExtract xmlns:ns="http://xxx">
<ns:RN_360BalanceExtract xmlns:ns="http://xxx">
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   <LocationTicketIssued>ALBERT ROAD SOUTH</LocationTicketIssued>
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Hi Paul
The content conversion will create a document like that if you insert DN_360BalanceExtract as Document name, "http://xxx" as namespace.
RN_360BalanceExtract will probably be your recordset, with its namespace.
More information about content conversion on sender file adapter:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/EN/ae/d03341771b4c0de10000000a1550b0/frameset.htm
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Regards,
Giuseppe

File/FTP adapter, outbound channel, content conversion, UTF-8 (Unicode)?

We would like to send "delimited" files to another application (tab-delimited, CSV, ... - the other application does not support XML-based interfaces). Obviously we will have an outbound channel that uses the file/FTP adapter and the data will be subjected to "content conversion".
The data contains names in many languages; not all of this can be represented in ISO Latin-1, much less in US-ASCII. I suppose UTF-8 would work. The question is: how is this handled by the FTP protocol? (considering that the FTP client is part of the SAP PI file/FTP adapter and the FTP server is something on the "other" machine)

Hi Peter,
you can maintain the file encoding in the outbound adapter. See [Configuring the Receiver File/FTP Adapter|http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/bc/bb79d6061007419a081e58cbeaaf28/content.htm]
For your requirements "utf-8" sounds pretty fitting.
Regards,
Udo

Configuring the Receiver File/FTP Adapter !!

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I am trying to configure the Receiver file adapter using the J2SE adapter engine(Please note , NOT the J2EE adapter engine).I see a prerequisite for configuring as below
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http://<fileadapterhost>:1234/file/Receiver"
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Saravana

Hi,
"http://<fileadapterhost>:1234/file/Receiver"
this adress refers to an end point with the end point type "xi-connectivity" in the integration directory (ID)which refers to the settings in the file adapter (httpPort=1234 and XI.httpService=/file/Receiver)
1. you specify these adress in the file adapter (outbound)
2. you refer to these adress in the ID (Receiver System End points)
every file adapter should have an own port, because you can not specify two identical ports in two fileadapters.
hope I could help you,
michele
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Performance File/FTP adapter

Hello all,
I've got the following problem.
For a lot of interfaces I use the file/ftp adapter.
One of them processes periodically a lot of files in a short time period, for example 3000 files in 20 minutes.
This interfaces consists of 6 message types. Each message type has it's own communication channel (ftp).
The messages are appended into one file (plain text) on the FTP server with a fixed file naam. One file for each message type.
The processing of a lot of these files takes a lot of time, for example 90 minutes for one message.
They are waiting a lot of time in the adapter queue (messaging system) before they are processed by the ftp adapter..
I think this is caused by the 'append step' wthin ftp.
Question (problem) is how I can increase the performance.
I already know you can change (raise) the parameter 'Maximum Concurrency' in the communication channel. For example value 2 in stead of 1. Only I'm afraid this causes locking problems because the files have to be appended one by one. But I'm not sure about this.
My questions are:
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- what other options do I have to increase the performance of the file/ftp adapter? (adding an extra server node is no option)
I hope anyone can help me with this.
Thanks
Regards,
Marco

Hi Ivan,
Sorry for my late reply I had to leave yesterday.
Thanks a lot for your help so far!!
I still have a question about the Maximum Concurrecy parameter in the communication channel.
The interface appends file to one file on the FTP server.
When I raise this parameter (1->2) to 'activate' parallel processing then I'm afraid theere will be a locking problem, because in one interface there are now two parallel FTP connections that append to the same file on the FTP server.
Is this a risk or not?
Other question: are there any guidelines on how to set the parameter Maximum Concurrency? For example technical limitations.
Regards,
Marco

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where as my requirement is only to to add Time & not the Date. (NThhmmss.out)
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    for your info we are using ABAP Mapping.
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Regards,
Umesh

Hi Umesh,
      Add one more field to your target structure for your file name and populate that field as per your requirement like NTyyyyMMdd.out. In receiver communication channel use Variable subtiution option and give the refrence of Payload and file construction mode set as create.
And refer the below weblogs for Variable Subtiutuion File Name Scheme
/people/jayakrishnan.nair/blog/2005/06/20/dynamic-file-name-using-xi-30-sp12-part--i - Dynamic File Name Part 1
/people/jayakrishnan.nair/blog/2005/06/28/dynamic-file-namexslt-mapping-with-java-enhancement-using-xi-30-sp12-part-ii - Dynamic File Name Part 2
Hope this way would be solve u r problem.
Cheers
Veera
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Write records to a Flat file & Ftp to a remote server

I know this would be a basic question for most of the ppl in this forum, but I am stuck in here.
There is a "Orders" table, and when new orders are made , I need to build a file with relevant information(extracted from tables) and FTP to a remote server.There should be a SQL job that would run for every 30 mins to see if there are any new orders made , and if so, Write them to a file and FTP back to a remote server.
The orders that were written to a file previously shouldn't appear when new files are created.
How can this be done..?
Thanks in advance..

You'd need 3 basic components here
1) Something to identify new orders
2) Something to write whatever data you want to a flat file
3) Something to FTP that file
#2 is going to be the UTL_FILE package
#3 is going to require a third-party PL/SQL (or Java) FTP library. If you do a Google search on UTL_FTP, you'll find a few such PL/SQL packages or you can download an appropriate Java class and load that into the database.
#1 can be as simple as a Status column that gets set to NEW initially and PROCESSED when the file is generated. Or it could get a lot more complicated with something like Streams capturing changes to the table and sending those change records to a separate consumer process that would then generate the file and FTP it.
Justin

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