Working with SAP Application Interface Framework (add-on based on SAP NetWeaver)

  • Customizing (/AIF/CUST)
  • System Configuration
  • Interface Development
  • Error Handling
  • Monitoring

When to use it?

If you have a complex, heterogeneous system landscape using the SAP NetWeaver PI
  1. Do functional instead of technical monitoring
  2. Enhance data quality as a result of business users' ability to correct errors within related applications
  3. Restrict interface data and error monitor access by flexible authorization rules
  4. Enforce interface implementation guidelines
  5. Perform mass error handling

Customizing (/AIF/CUST)

System Configuration

  • Create business systems (objects). This is for value mapping, if it is system dependent.
  • Data transfer: a Data Transfer report is required to transfer qRFC/tRFC, CIF PP, and BDC data into the SAP Application Interface Framework.
  • Recipients
    • Maintain the alert recipients in the SAP Application Interface Framework
    • A recipient defines that a user or a group of users is responsible for the interfaces assigned to that recipient

Interface Development

  1. Define the namespace ( all interfaces, value mappings, fix values, checks, and actions have to be assigned to a namespace ~ group country-specific objects and configurations, logically group inbound and outbound interfaces).
  2. Define an interface (Interface ID, description, proxy class).

Error Handling

  • Define Applications: integration of customer-defined error handling applications.
  • Trace levels define the level of detail for the log messages that are saved in the application log.

Monitoring


Development



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