I am doing customized idoc sending using your article

Beginner’s Guide to ALE and IDocs - Part I
Beginner’s Guide to ALE and IDocs - Part II
Beginner’s Guide to ALE and IDocs - Part IIi

on clint 500(receiver) my idoc are in
Status 64 IDoc ready to be transferred to application
No filters , No conversion , No version change .
kindly help me

1. Basis and PI are two different areas. PI is more of integration/developement component which sits on top of SAP Web AS. If you are more inclined or well versed with admin/server activities, I would suggest looking at SAP NetWeaver Administrator as a role - This would comprise of admin/basis activities for NetWeaver components including PI.

2. Training is best obtained through SAP or SAP training partners like Genovate etc. They do offer short term courses. I am not aware of the fee struacture though. As far as I know free versions for PI are not available. There are some websites/vendors (including SAP) which provide restricted access to PI servers, but at a fee.

3. There are plenty of books available in SAP Press. If you are looking at developer’s role have a look at book by Michal Krawczyk titled ‘Mastering IDoc Business Scenarios with SAP XI’. For basis stuff related to PI, the book ‘Mastering SAP XI Administration’ by Marcus Banner and Heinzpeter Klein is good. You can as well use this website to gain some learning.

Good luck and all the best!

Even though I have 10 years of technical consulting experience on many non-SAP products in installation, admin, Unix, Oracle, app Server clustering and databas etuning etc, I wanted to move to SAP Technical consulting side.
Question:
1. I need a mentor advice to understand if BASIS would be good or developing a career on SAP XI/PI? Your thoughts?

2. Also is there a good training on XI/PI? I looked at official SAP training site, it is too expensive and it begins from beginner SAPTECH etc. In fact I’m confident a week or two training on PI/XI, I can pick-up. What is your thought about Training and any hints? Can I free download and XI/PI from sapnet if any and learn/practice with my pace.
3. Last but not least, is there a good SAP XI/PI book that you could recommend.

Thanks a lot for any suggestion.

pradeep

if it doesn’t work, try changing the character encoding

e.g. < ?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

if UTF-8 does not work, try other encoding.

but for the interest of others…

I got rid of the following tags surrounding the source payload:

ns0:Messages xmlns:ns0=”http://xxxxxxx.com/yyyyyy”
ns0:Message1

/ns0:Message1
/ns0:Messages

Regards,
Max

Just an update….I have got it working at last! A silly but easily mistakable fault which was overseen…

I was using the following source message xml Originally as it is taken from the “Test” tab in OP/Message Mapping:

PB18
Distribution

123456
235645

456784
975645

763158
653487

569855
853624

This resulted under the test tab of op/message mapping being successfull however when the interface was actually run no resulting files were being produced….

So then I fixed the source message XML as below and got rid of some excess tags as below:

UK18
London

123456
235645

456784
975645

763158
653487

569855
853624

And now everything is fine!
It is producing the right amount of resulting files….
However if I was to test it with the above source XML under test tab in OP/Message mapping it obviously does not work which caused all the confusion in the first place!

Thanks for your help and keep up the excellent work with your site and blogs - they are simply superb and you’re a top guy for all your efforts!

All the best!
Max

Firstly many thanks for your swift reply, and I apologise for the delay in getting back to you.

I have performed the steps you mentioned…

In process def Workflow–>syntax check -
I get 1 information and 1 warning and 0 errors:

Information: Container element ORDER_CURRENT_LINE in block 0000000018 is not used

Warning: Conversion From ‘[NN.]’ to ‘[XC.ZXI_PROXY_SIAA_ORDER_1TON_0002]’ Can Cause Data-Dependent Errors

Where ORDER_CURRENT_LINE is my single line container I defined in the BPM to hold the current line.

At first it seems this is the problem however on an almost identical BPM done by a previous developer you get the same 1 info and 1 warning yet this works fine so I’m not confident this is the problem.

And then under PE link:
The BPM does not indicate it has failed at any step although as mentioned previously it finishes on (Green arrows go up to) ForEachOrder Block and not all the way to the end but again does not show any errors.

If I click on the last step (ForEachOrder block) and click container everything - its all blank.

If I click on mapping step and then on container I can see Message_in and Message_out - drilling deeper shows that message_in has the source message however message_out is empty.

I created the source XML file from the test area in the message/operation mapping and the test results looked ok so I presumed this was fine to use……
There is no mapping exceptions either….

As mentioned we have another BPM scenario which is almost identical to your example but with different interfaces and I have compared it to mine (which is based on your blog) and cannot see what is wrong!

Many thanks Riyaz
p.s if you have a personal email account I can always send screenshots..source XML file….maybe easier to see?

Thanks again.
Kind regards,
Max