SAP XI , POS DM and BW

Question

Hi experts
We are implementing BW & POS DM along with SAP IS Retail. A legacy application is used at the POS. Can you clarify on the following
1) What are the common models/extractors for loading POS data into POS DM or BW
2) Is SAP XI mandatory in this scenario - to extract POS data into either BW or POS DM
3) Similarly, if we were to extract data into BW from SAP ECC, would XI be manadatory
4) Should BW and POS DM be necessarily on the same server?

Answer 1

Hi Amitabha,
If I understand this correctly, you are completing the Goods Receipts at the Store Manager Application, correct?
Then again, when EOD is performed and the TLOG is sent back to Head Office you are unable to see the Goods Receipt transactions performed at Store Manager application.
Now, something to point out is that every transaction performed in the Store Manager application gets its own txn file, denominated "p5".
Go to the following path at the SERVER:
C:\XPS\sdata
Now, find all the "*.txn" files. You will note the following file:
####p500.txn (where #### is the store number).
All these "p5's" txn files contain the information you need. You just need to make sure that the EODPROC. BAT has the CVTLOG command line instructing to also convert these P5's txn files.
Hope this helped,
Alfredo Carigga