About Connect SAP rules

Connect SAP rules support interactions between Pega Platform and SAP R/3 (ECC) or NetWeaver systems over HTTP. Use Connect SAP rules in your application to connect to existing SAP Web services and create connectors of SOAP or IDoc types.

Important: Connect SAP rules are no longer being actively developed, and are being considered for deprecation in upcoming releases. Using Connect SAP rules does not follow Pega development best practices. Use Connect SOAP rules instead. For more information, see About Connect SOAP rules.

The following tabs are available on this form:

Access

To list the Connect SAP rules in your application, use the Application Explorer or click Configure > Integration > Connector Definitions & Simulations.

To list all Connect SAP rules that are available to you, use the Records Explorer.

Development

For information specific to SAP Connectors, see the Pega Community article Pega Process Extender for SAP Business Suite.

To create an SAP connector, start the New SAP Integration wizard. Identify the URL of the WSDL file or IDoc XSD document that describes the processing and methods of the SAP Web service you want to connect to.

To create a Connect SAP rule directly in your application, click Create > Integration-Connectors > Connect SAP. For more information, see Creating SAP integration.

To debug your application, you can simulate a SAP connector when the external Web service is unavailable or lacks a test environment. See Creating Connector Simulations.

Where referenced

Connect SAP rules can be referenced in an Integrator shape of a flow rule, or on the Definition tab of a Data Page rule, as the source of data for the contents of the data page.

Category

A Connect SAP rule is an instance of the Rule-Connect-SAP rule type. Connect SAP rules belong to the Integration-Connectors category.