Enterprise service discovery connection properties

The enterprise service discovery wizard requires that you set properties when you initially deploy the adapter. The first window of the enterprise service discovery window (the Configure Settings for Discovery Agent window) is used to configure the following categories of properties: logon connection properties required for connecting to the SAP application to perform metadata discovery, metadata properties, and bidirectional configuration properties.

Logon connection properties

The following table describes the logon connection properties required by the enterprise service discovery wizard to log on to the SAP application.

Logon connection properties

Property Type Globalized Description
ApplicationServerHost String Yes When configuring the adapter to run without load balancing, specifies the IP address or the name of the application server that the adapter logs into. In both cases, the adapter assumes that the name of the gateway host is the same as the value specified for this property.
Client Integer No SAP Client number under which the adapter logs in, often 100.
CodepageNumber Integer No In order to establish a connection in the appropriate language, must correspond to the value specified in the Language property. For example, if Language is set to JA (Japanese), then CodepageNumber must be set to 8000, as dictated by the SAP application. Refer to SAP documentation for the exact Language and Codepage values.
Language String No Language in which the adapter logs in. The default is E, for English.
Password String Yes Pass of the adapter’s user account on the SAP system.
RFCTraceOn boolean No Specifies whether or not to generate a text file detailing the RFC activity for each listener thread. You can specify a value of true (checked) or false (unchecked). A value of true activates tracing, which generates a text file. Use these text files in a development environment only, because the fields can grow rapidly. The default value is false (unchecked).
SystemNumber Integer No System number of the application server. The value is a two-digit number, often 00. The default is 00.
UserName String Yes Name of the adapter’s user account on the SAP system.

Metadata properties

The following table describes the metadata properties required by the enterprise service discovery wizard to introspect and display the correct elements from the SAP application.

Metadata properties

Property Type Description
Select the Module String Indicates whether you are creating business objects for the ALE or BAPI interface.
Maximum number of hits for the discovery Integer

When introspecting elements in the ALE or BAPI interface, defines the maximum number of SAP elements displayed by the wizard per discovery. Default value is 100.

Bidirectional properties

When you initially configure the adapter, if you want to enable bidirectional language support for the enterprise service discovery wizard, you must configure a set of six properties. These properties determine the bi-di format of field names that display throughout the enterprise service discovery wizard and the bi-di format of the values you enter in these fields. The properties, which are used by the enterprise service discovery wizard during adapter configuration to communicate with the SAP application, appear in the first window of the wizard (the Configure Settings for Discovery Agent window) under the heading BiDi properties. Note that the only fields in this first window that are affected by the bi-di format defined are User Name and Password. Other fields in this first window do not have bi-di support.

The following table describes the BiDi properties that appear in the first window of the enterprise service discovery wizard. Note that these differ from bidirectional properties that appear in the last window of the enterprise service discovery wizard, in that the following properties define bi-di for the enterprise service discovery wizard, whereas the ones on the last enterprise service discovery wizard window define bi-di formats for the adapter.

Bidirectional properties (first window of the enterprise service discovery wizard)

Property Type Description
BiDiTransformation Boolean Turns bidirectional support on or off. The default value is false, which means that bi-di support is turned off.
BiDOrderingSchema String Determines the type of text schema used; either implicit (logical), or visual. The default value is implicit.
BiDiDirection String Determines the text direction used. Possible values are LTR (left to right), RTL (right to left), ContextualLTR (contextual left to right), and ContextualRTL (contextual right to left.) The default value is LTR.
BiDiSymmetricSwapping Boolean Determines whether systemic swapping is turned on or off. The default value is True, which means that systemic swapping is turned on.
BiDi Shaping String Determines the bi-di format used by the enterprise service discovery wizard while it communicates with the SAP application. Possible values are Nominal, National, Contextual The default value is Nominal.
BiDiNumericShaping Sting Determines the bi-di format used by the enterprise service discovery wizard while it communicates with the SAP application. Possible values are Nominal, National, Contextual The default value is Nominal.

The following image illustrates the enterprise service discovery wizard window in which these properties appear.

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First window of the enterprise service discovery wizard


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