[560] in sapr3-soft
Re: SAP vs ODBC
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (MSoltau@t-online.de (Martin Soltau)
Fri Oct 31 10:17:17 1997
To: sapr3-soft@MIT.EDU
Date: 31 Oct 1997 08:02:33 -0600
From: MSoltau@t-online.de (Martin Soltau) (by way of SAP Moderator <MSoltau@t-online.de>)
Nitin Goel (by way of SAP Moderator ) wrote:
>
> I am new to SAP. I want to know whether SAP R/3 is odbc compliant or not.
> Also, i want to know whether there is a learning edition of SAP R/3 for
> people who are interested in this area.
>
> Thanks
>
> Nitin
> niting@hotmail.com
>
As far as I know SAP R/3 is not ODBC-compliant. But it is not
recommended to acces the system by that interface anyway. SAP has its
own data dictionary and repository within the databases and does not
really use the functions that the database system provides. That is
because the system is to run on many different platforms and therefor
only uses the small functionality that is common in all systems.
If you access the system by direct database access you won't have any
consistence checks or other functionality that should be provided by a
business application.
To supply data to or retrieve data from SAP you should think about using
the standard interfaces , that are: BAPI/Business objects, RFC or EDI.
In some applications (such as CO-PA) you have some im- and export
functionality to up- and download mass-data. Maybe you could check that
one?
Martin Soltau
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