Minitab - xMII

Hi,
how to integrate minitab with xmii and where to download minitab export jar file?
-senthil

Senthil,
The minitab feature comes preinstalled with version 11.5 SR02 and above. This feature will format any data into minitab format for you to read. There is no need for a minitab jar file just install SR02 or greater.
Refer to this post on how to use the Minitab action blocks Minitab Export Action Block
Regards,
Erik

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Hi,
how to convert minitab file into xml format. i tried possibilities but facing problems. i tried for two psiibilities.
1) i imported minitab file(.mtw) into BLS text loader. then i added flat file parser then StringList to XML parser. but it doesnt show correct xml output. it shows each row as single item.
2) I saved minitab file as text file by applying comma seperator. then i opened that file in BLS. this file having column names but in BLS it consider each item as single row. for example if i have 2x2 rows / columns means, BLS consider it as 4 rows and take column name also as row.
how to solve it? how to convert minitab file as it is(with .mtw) extension to xMII XML format.
-senthil

Senthil,
In xMII 11.5 SP3 in the Logic Editor under Misc Functions -> Minitab Export
-Sam

XMII - Minitab Conversion

Hi,
i want to convert data from xmii to minitab. I am running server from other system.I am using BLS. In writeFile action, i am giving file path in run time. if i give path as D:\<file name>.mtw means, it stores file in xmii server system's D drive. how can i store it in my system?
-senthil

It is actually quite easy to do. Simply create a String output parameter in your BLS transaction, and call the transaction via a URL using the Runner servlet. Be sure to put a "virtual file name" on the end of your URL of the form &Dummy.mtw or whatever. If Minitab is installed on the client PC, it will automatically open the results from that URL. It also wouldn't hurt to add &Content-Type=application/minitab to the URL.
The power of BLS that a lot of people don't realize is that it can stream back virtually any format, without the need to save it to disk.
Rick

Integrating Minitab with xMII

Hi ,
I like to integrate Minitab with xMII 11.5 (earlier version ) ,i know in SR2 and later we have minitab integrated by default. But my query is whether we able to integrate minitab in xMII 11.5(earlier version). If yes,how can be done?
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Bala

To convert a minitab file into xml you should be able to use a text loader to obtain the file and the a FlatFileParser in conjunction with a StringListToXML. The StringListToXml_0.Delimiter needs to be set to tab.
To convert xml to minitab format you a repeater on the datasource with a write file in the repeater. You'll also need to use the tab and crlf functions to build it correctly.
But the real solution should be to upgrading to SR3.
Regards,
Jamie

Cookie Support in xMII portal

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i created one web page. in this i set ChartClickEvent and i get querytemplate of that chart. then i click button to send result of querytemplate to Minitab. i set alert messages to display value of query template and SQL query that is going to send for conversion. i got these values via cookie in javascript. this page is working fine when i call this via browser i.e directly i typed as
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Are you setting the values in your cookie when you access the page from the portal? I havent used them in a long time, but I'm pretty sure cookies are Domain specific. So if you set in while in one Domain, its not avilable via another. Maybe acessing the page thru the portal puts it in a different Domain?

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Hi all,
we are creating dynamic PDF Reports and store them in an xMII Web folder like "/Project/WEB/PDFFiles/".
The problem is that I cannot display the PDF File after creation to the user, because when I use the URL it says an error like "file cannot be found". Only after I open the Workbench and "publish" the file, the URL works and the PDF is opened.
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Michael

Hi, Michael.
The rendered PDF document is stored in a "string" parameter. Create a transaction output parameter of type string, and name it "PDFContent". Now, to stream the data back, create a hyperlink of the format:
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In some cases, you may need to "trick" IE into forcing an open of the PDF viewer, in which case you might want to tweak the URL as follows:
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Sometimes IE uses the ".pdf" at the end, sometimes it uses the content type/mime type. Seems inconsistent.
Best regards,
Rick

Minitab to XML conversion

Hi,
i have table in Minitab as
S0190 S0192 S0195
47 44 47
where S0190,S0192,S0195 are column names. i tried to convert this into XML format in BLS. I loaded this mtw file in text loader and connected to Flat file parser as text loader string content to Flat file parser input. i got output for this as
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
- <Rowsets DateCreated="2007-08-29T19:33:11" EndDate="2007-08-29T19:33:11" StartDate="2007-08-29T19:33:11" Version="11.5.3">
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<Column Description="Line" MaxRange="0" MinRange="0" Name="Line" SQLDataType="1" SourceColumn="Line" />
</Columns>
- <Row>
<LineNumber>1</LineNumber>
<Line>'S0190'</Line>
</Row>
- <Row>
<LineNumber>2</LineNumber>
<Line>'S0192'</Line>
</Row>
- <Row>
<LineNumber>3</LineNumber>
<Line>'S0195'</Line>
</Row>
- <Row>
<LineNumber>4</LineNumber>
<Line />
</Row>
- <Row>
<LineNumber>5</LineNumber>
<Line>4,700000000e+001</Line>
</Row>
- <Row>
<LineNumber>6</LineNumber>
<Line>4,400000000e+001</Line>
</Row>
- <Row>
<LineNumber>7</LineNumber>
<Line>4,700000000e+001</Line>
</Row>
- <Row>
<LineNumber>8</LineNumber>
<Line />
</Row>
</Rowset>
</Rowsets>
i tried many ways to convert this into xMII XML format, but didnt get XML format. how to convert this format into XML format? can i use repeater, for next? In this it take column names (S0190..) as rows. how to set as column in XML format?
thanks in advance
-senthil

hi
You may use the "Column" action (under xMII XML Output in BLS) and "Row" action to set the column names and map the values in the rows respectively in the XML file. Of course you have to use 'Repeater' action to loop the input table contents to be shown in the XML output.
Regards
Som

Program to execute BLT in xMII from SAP R/3

Hi all,
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I have made the code ready to use since it takes lot of time to have the declaration and checking and all.
Can anyone tell me how to post this as a Blog or in the Wiki ?
REPORT ZCALL_XMII_TRANS                              .
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            p_user(10) type c ,               " xMII User Name
            p_pass(10) type c .               " xMII Password
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data : i_rfc_destination type rfcdest.
data : client type ref to IF_HTTP_CLIENT .
* Data Declaration for Path, UserName, Password
data : path type string.
data: if_query_field type TIHTTPNVP with header line,
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data: i_user_name(5),
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CL_HTTP_CLIENT=>CREATE_BY_DESTINATION
EXPORTING
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IMPORTING
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EXCEPTIONS
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    DESTINATION_NOT_FOUND    = 2
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    PLUGIN_NOT_ACTIVE        = 4
    INTERNAL_ERROR           = 5
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EXPORTING
    name = '~request_method'
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path = '/Runner'.
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append if_query_field to it_query_field.
if not i_user_name is initial.
if_query_field-name = 'XacuteLoginName'.
* User name for the xMII
if_query_field-value = i_user_name.                 " User Name
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if_query_field-name = 'XacuteLoginPassword'.
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using i_user_password
changing if_str.
if_query_field-value = if_str.
append if_query_field to it_query_field.
endif.
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*/Runner?OutputParameter=*&Transaction=<Transaction Name>
* &XacuteLoginName=<uname>&XacuteLoginPassword=<password>
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condense path.
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      EXPORTING
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        value = path.
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* get response
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      EXCEPTIONS
        http_communication_failure = 1
        http_invalid_state         = 2
        http_processing_failed     = 3
        OTHERS                     = 4.
    if sy-subrc <> 0.
      call method client->close( ).
      WRITE / 'HTTP_COMMUNICATION_FAILURE'.
    endif.
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* get password string from base64 encoded value
* -->i_password_encoded: encoded password
* <--e_password: decoded password
FORM get_password USING i_password
CHANGING e_password.
data: i_pwd type string,
e_pwd type string.
i_pwd = i_password.
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How to set different navigation items for each content tab in xMII portal

Hi,
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How is this possible?
Please help.

Vaishali,
The built-in navigation tree is not intended for this sort of thing, where just like with the tabs it is intended to provide role/user based content links.
You would be better off having your content tab link pass a criteria to the default target frame and allow a web page to give you the second level of dynamics. Your content tab links could be something quite simple like "Page.irpt?Tree=1", "Page.irpt?Tree=2", "Page.irpt?Tree=3" and your irpt page would receive the Tree property and you could react accordingly in your web page.
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Com.sap.xmii.Illuminator.logging.LHException: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundErro

Hello,
Intermittently users get the following error when logging into the application which is built upon xmii:
com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerResource
At this point in the application it is trying to read information which is stored in a SQLServer database.
We see the following errors in trace files:
application [XMII] Processing HTTP request to servlet [Illuminator] finished with error.
The error is: com.sap.xmii.Illuminator.logging.LHException: com.sap.xmii.Illuminator.logging.LHException: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerResource
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We've replaced the JDBC driver with one which SAP support told us would work, but that did not fix the problem either.
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Hi John,
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Calling Webservice from Netweaver Portal to SAP XMII 12.0 using SSO

Hello,
we have a Netweaver 2004s based Portal and a Netweaver-based SAP XMII (v12.0) System providing Webservices.
What we try to do is to call a webservice out of the Portal EAR Application using SSO.
SSO-Konfiguration between Portal and XMII is done and works fine. I tested this using an URL-iView, which calls a https-URL on XMII and SSO-Authentification is done in the background.
Now I want to call a Webservice using SSO.
Without SSO (prodiving UID/PW), the webservice-call works fine.
In order to use SSO with Webservice, I created a "Deployable Webservice Proxy" with "HTTP-Authentication" and "use SAP Logon Ticket" turned on.
Then I remove Login/Password from my SOAP-Request and unfortunately it doesn't work.
What do I have to consider in addition to the topics above?
Can you provide any useful links with tutorials, hints, documentation, ...?
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> Can you please list all the options that we have in order to implement SSO for EP and SAP GUI?
>
> I could not find any info in regards to the advantages and disadvantages of each SSO solution. Do you have any links that gives this information?
If you search the forum here for the terms you have used, then you will find many of them and interesting discussions about advantages and disadvantages from different views. I think that in 1 or 2 hours you will be a guru
> I am thinking more of using Kerberos authentication for SAP GUI and using OpenSSO (Sun's product)solution for EP 7.0.
>
> Do you know what SSO technologies are other companies implementing these days?
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I don't want to do any direct or indirect comparative advertizing here, but only wanted to point out to you that there is plenty of information if you use the search. What you need to understand is that other that SAP proprietary mechanisms and newer standards based initiatives (search for 'SAML'), this is often a 3rd party vendor question (and resulting discussion...).
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I figured it was that simple.
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Problem in retrieving multiple records SAP xMII from SAP using BAPIS

Hi friends,
In SAP xMII i called BAPI_USER_GETLIST by passing import parameters 10 and y.In r/3 BAPI returned 10 rows but In xMII it was returned only one Record.
i want to display 10 records in sap xmii
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6)In Query Template -->xactuateQuery selected
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Regards
Srikanth

hi,
What is the data type of Transaction output (userid)?
Make this as XML type.
The format which BAPI returns the result does not match with xMII XML format.
Create a xMII XML document and configure with column name as userid. and by using repeater and XML row add all tho values to the document. Then assign whole doument to transaction output.
Hope this will help to resolve the issue.
Regards,
Kishore

Control recipe resending to xMII.

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How can we resend the control recipe to xMII?
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Best Regards,
Ajit Dubal.

Hi Vijaya,
I am able to send the control recipe but need to know how to resend the control recipe.
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XMII installation on Windows 2003 Server ( 64- Bit)

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Can we install xMII 11.5 SR01 on Win 2003 server ( 64 -Bit ) ??? When i am trying to download xMII software from SAP market place , under xMII downloads
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Thanks
Sharat

Sharat,
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