SAP ADS connection from PPM 5.0 to Portal 7.3

Created by : Brindavan Mookaiah

Designation : SAP BASIS Consultant

ADS connection from PPM system to Portal 7.3

SAP ADS connection from PPM5.0 to Portal 7.3

Pre-requisite steps

AS JAVA

Adobe document services	Deploy ADS if not there
check the ADS-USER	Create ADSUSER with role SAP_ADSCALLER
ADS services	Check ADS services is running or not http://<server>:Port/nwa

AS ABAP

Check user ADS_AGENT	Create ADS_AGENT with required role SAP_BC_FP_ICF, SAP_BC_FPADS_ICF & SAP_BC_JSF_COMMUNICATION
Check T-code SM59	Authoration required to create RFC connection
Services activation-(SICF)	/default_host/sap/bc/fp /default_host/sap/bc/fpads
PDF printer	Check the PDF printer if not create in SPAD

Step by step

As java

1) Deploy ADS in java………………………………………………………………………………………………………
2) Create ADSUSER……………………………………………………………………………………………………….
3) Check ADS services…………………………………………………………………………………………………….
4) Create RFC in SOA from JAVA to ABAP systems................………………………………………………….......

AS ABAP

1) Create ADS_AGENT user………………………………………………………………………………………..
2) Activate services in SICF…………………………………………………………………………………………
3) Create PDF printer…………………………………………………………………………………………………
4) Create RFC connection from ABAP to JAVA systems. ……………………………………………………....
5) Test connection ……………………………………………………………………………………………………

Issues and troubleshooting …………………………………………………………………………………………………..

1) Deploy ADS

Adobe Document Services (ADS) comes installed by default with NetWeaver AS Java and is SAP’s standard way of creating PDFs by SAP applications. These PDFs can be normal PDFs or interactive (called Adobe Interactive Forms). The SAP system using ADS can be any NetWeaver ABAP or Java system

Note: If ADS is not in JAVA than deploy through telnet or JSPM

Reference link: -Http://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/TechTSG/(JSTSG)(Telnet)DeployController+Commands?original_fqdn=wiki.sdn.sap.com

2) Create ADSUSER

Create ADSUSER with assigned the role SAP_ADSCALLER in Java system

Check in “http://<server>:Port/irj/portal

3) Check ADS services : http://<server>:Port/nwa

Operations --> Systems --> Start & Stop

4) 1) Create RFC connection to from ABAP to JAVA systems : http://<server>:Port/nwa

Create Destination FP_ICF_DATA_<SID of As ABAP> in SOA.

Go to nwa (http://<server>:<port>/nwa)

Go to SOA --> Technical Configuration-->Select Destinations

Click create

Enter Destination Name as FP_ICF_DATA_<SID of As ABAP>Select Destination Type as HTTP. Click Next. Enter URL of As ABAP system (http://<server>:<port>) e.g. http://<servername>.com:8000

Enter System ID and Client of As ABAP system. Click Next

Select Authentication as Basic. Enter User as ADS_AGENT and its password.

Click on Finish.

As ABAP

1) Create user ADS_AGENT as a system user in transaction SU01 and assign roles SAP_BC_FP_ICF, SAP_BC_FPADS_ICF & SAP_BC_JSF_COMMUNICATION.

Note: Either assign standard roles or make a copy of this role to Z roles. If you are assigning standard roles then make sure that profile of these roles should be generated.

2) Create role ADSCALLERS in PFCG and assign user ADSUSER to it.

3) Activate services in SICF

Go to T_cpde SICF and click excute