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shinjw
shinjw

Reputation: 3421

Mimic SAP Transaction in RFC

How would one go about creating a SAP RFC that runs a transaction with parameters and return its data?

I have seen someone use a PERFORM BDC_DYNPRO and when I run the code through the debugger it seems to run the actual transaction screens. How do you go about setting this up?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 295

Answers (1)

maurcz
maurcz

Reputation: 341

There's plenty of RFCs in SAP systems that does exactly that - they're called BAPI functions. Filling parameters can be tricky sometimes and documentation for some of them are not really helpful. Take a look in transaction BAPI to see a list.

You can also create documents in transactions through code using IDOCs, that should be called using built-in IDOC RFCs.

BDCs are not really recommended for what you're trying to achieve, as they simulate the screenflow inside the system and that can consume a lot of resources for some simple tasks (like adding a new item to a document). BDCs also depends on positional references and that can be a pain to implement/maintain. BAPIs are always preferred over BDCs, however, in some cases you don't have BAPIs for a transaction and there's no other solution than using BDCs.

Finally, as I said some BAPIs can be really tricky to implement, so a RFC "wrapper" could be a way of simplifying the integration processes.

Upvotes: 3

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