I want to send data from One server to another

Question

Hi all,
My requirement to send data from one server's  application server path(data in one directory in Al11 of the source server) to another server's application server(TO another directory in Al11 transaction of the destination server).
What are all the ways to achieve this task.
Thanks in Advance.
Raja

Answer 1

While the FTP option mentioned above is workable, both servers should have some form of FTP service running with reference to this solution.
I suggest two more options, just to give you an idea. I am not getting into details as it is important to get the big picture first before working on details.
1: Through RFC destinations:
You can define two RFc destinations, each pointing to the specific application server. Assuming the server names are SOURCE and TARGET, you can have two RFC destinations where you differentiate the servers by specifying the host name or IP address.
Once the destinations are defined, you need to develop two RFC enabled function module, one will be used to read the file and return it in form of internal table. The other will be get the internal table as input and should save it on server (using abap commands open dataset etc.)
Now you can have an ABAP program where you first call the function which is reading the file. In call function you mention the RFC destination of source server.
Once the file is read, you than call the second function module with destination to target server and save the internal table to a file.
2: Through Background job programming
While scheduling a background job, you can specify target system which forces the background job to run on that target application server. The basic idea here is to have two abap programs, one would be used to read file and export it to database table like INDX (we can call it ZPRG1), the other will import from the table INDX and write it as a file (we can call it ZPRG2).
Now you can define a job through SM36, using ZPRG1 as program, and target system as the first application server. This job you can schedule to run periodically.
Also define a second job through SM36, using ZPRG2 as program and target system as the second application server. For this job, the starting condition you can put as ‘After completion of job1’.
Another method one can be by using FMs used in tcode SM49 but for that I think your sysadmin might have to create a batch file/script first. Which you can later call from ABAP.
Cheers.