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Hristina Raykova
December 20, 2018 5 minute read

SAP Process Integration Business-to-Business Add-on 2.0

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Introduction
 We are proud to announce the availability of Process Integration Business-to-Business add-on (B2B)
release 2.0 for SAP NetWeaver PI/PO from November 23rd, 2018. The add-on allows you to simplify and
accelerate B2B integrations with your Trading Partners and extend your business processes in an easy and
quick way. You can run B2B processes as part of an existing SAP NetWeaver PI based integration hub. It
includes a set of B2B protocol adapters, converter modules and B2B infrastructure services for serving the
B2B/EDI integration needs of most industries.

One major change in the new release is that B2B Add-on 2.0 switched to be compatible with PI and PO
versions 7.31 SP18 or higher, taking advantage of the latest improvements in PI. It does not require Secure
Connectivity Add-on 1.0 as a prerequisite before installation.

Major features included in PI B2B Add-on Release 2.0:

Dynamic Con guration Routing of EDI Separator Adapter
Disable Message Split of EDI Separator Adapter
AS2 Adapter Improvements
Component Based Message Alerting for OFTP and X400 Adapters
Number Range Object Import and Export
Number Range Object API Extension
Support PI / PO with Integration Content Advisor

Important Documentation
Release Notes

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Con guration guides (Application Help)

Installation Guide and Update Guide
SAP Note 2720040 :  Download location of SAP Process Integration, business-to-business add-on 2.0
SAP Note 2709410: Compatibility Matrix: SAP Process Integration business-to-business add on 2.0

Now, let’s take a closer look at the enhancements of PI B2B Add-On 2.0

B2B Adapters
EDI Separator Adapter
Dynamic Con guration Routing

This feature extends the capabilities of EDI Separator Adapter by providing an option to use the value of
Dynamic Con guration header for message routing.

With the usage of such con gurable dynamic parameter, messages can be routed to an appropriate
scenario based on for example:

TPM header information

VAN provider data
Information from a particular EDI message segment
Adapter speci c message attribute
prede ned static information (like scenario Party or region) – a way to achieve better isolation between
di erent EDI scenarios

For more information refer to Dynamic Con guration Routing of EDI Separator documentation at
help.sap.com

Disable Message Split

 The EDI Separator always does a message split of EDI bulk messages. In some scenarios the original batch
EDI message is required in the mapping or needs to be transferred without changes to the receiver system.
This functionality is now included in B2B Add-on 2.0 Support Package 0. It contains the option not to split
the bulk EDI messages in the EDI Separator Receiver channel. This feature is available for all the supported
standards ANSI X12, EDIFACT, EANCOM, ODETTE, VDA, TRADACOMS and PLAIN. The Adapter validation
functionality is intact, and the EDI bulk messages can be validated if validation is con gured. For more
information check the documentation at help.sap.com – Disable Message Split in EDI Separator.

AS2 Adapter Improvements

 Enhanced Error Handling for Message Noti cation Disposition (MDN)

 AS2 Adapter in case of outbound scenarios improved its behavior when MDN is not delivered on time. A
new AS2 application parameter is introduced for con guring the period of time that the Adapter will wait to
receive the requested MDN until an alert is raised. The default value of this parameter is 60 minutes.

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The generated alert has the following format:

1. Error Code: MDN_NOT_RECV

2. Error Text: “Message Delivery Noti cation (MDN) not received for AS2 message with ID =
<AS2_MESSAGE_ID> within last <TIME_INTERVAL> minutes. AS2 Message is sent by PI
at <SENT_TIME> as an attempt to send XI Message with ID = <XI_MESSAGE_ID>”

For more information check SAP Note 2652481 – New Feature: MDN not received on time.

Build-In integration with IDOCs, SAP and/ or EDI Documents 

AS2 Adapter provides the option the requested from the Partner AS2 Acknowledgement (MDN) to be
correlated with the generated SAP Document, IDOC or EDI message using the standard identi ers. This is
accomplished with additional XML Node with name “DocumentIdenti ers” in the shipped with B2B TOOLKT
Software Component AS2 MDNDeliveryReport Data Type. This node can contain more than one element
named “DocumentIdenti er” holding the identi er of each document sent by the AS2 Adapter within single
AS2 message.

In case of correlating IDOCs the AS2 Adapter retrieves the information about the identi ers of all sent
documents by reading certain dynamic header of the processed XI message. By default, the full name of this
header is: http://sap.com/xi/XI/System/IDoc_AAE/DOCNUMS. This header is added automatically by the
IDOC Sender Adapter since PI / PO 7.31 SP23 and 7.50 SP13. The value of the header contains all IDOC
numbers inside a single XI message, separated by comma.

In case of correlating SAP or EDI documents the AS2 Adapter provides the option to specify the Dynamic
Con guration header that will be used for storing the identi ers. Here are the parameters for specifying the
Dynamic Con guration header details:

identi ers.dc.namespace – this parameter determines the dynamic header namespace

identi ers.dc.key – this parameter de nes the dynamic header name
identi ers.separator – this parameter speci es the proper separator used for the list of identi ers as part
of the dynamic header value.

These three parameters can be set globally for all scenarios or per AS2 receiver/sender channel as
additional attributes.

More information how to use this feature can be found in SAP Note 2630804 – New Feature: Correlate AS2
MDN to original document (IDOCNUM).

Component Based Message Alerting for OFTP and X400 Adapters

This feature gives the option to con gure Component-Based Message Alerting for OFTP and X.400
communication channels and to get noti ed about adapter speci c errors. The following table describes the
di erent types of errors for which alerts are triggered in X.400 and OFTP adapters:

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Adapter Error

X400 Adapter Received is no ReturnResult

OFTP Adapter SFNA Received

OFTP Adapter NERP Generated

OFTP Adapter ESID Generated

OFTP Adapter ESID Received

In order to use this functionality, the PI /PO system should be updated as per SAP Note 2709507.

Number Range Object Import and Export

 The Number Range Object (NRO) Maintenance page now includes the functionality to export already
created NROs and import them into another system. It can be also used to keep a backup of the objects.
The functionality can be accessed directly from the NRO Maintenance page in the B2B Integration Cockpit
after upgrading the B2B Add-on to release 2.0. There are two new buttons Export and Import that are
located at the top left of the window:

The Export button triggers an export of the selected Number Range Objects to a le with .nro extension.
The Import button opens an Import wizard. During all the steps you will be able to view the NRO objects
included in the selected for import .nro le. Upon that information you can decide which of them to
import. The option ‘Reset Value on Import’ enables the reset of the current values of all the selected for
import NROs to the de ned ‘Minimum value’. After the Import process is completed, the Import Results
table is visualized. It shows whether each of the selected NROs has been successfully imported or no.

Number Range Object API Extension

New method called ‘retrieveAllNumberRangeObjectNames’ is added to the Number Range Object API. It
returns a list containing the names of all the available Number Range objects in the system. For more
information how to use the NRO API and the new method check the below links:

2707796 – New Feature: Number Range Object API extension

2035054 – Number Range Object API for User De ned Functions

Support PI / PO with Integration Content Advisor

Another major step in reaching the goal of leveraging the implementation of B2B scenarios is the integration
between SAP NetWeaver PI/PO and Integration Content Advisor (ICA). The latter is a cloud-based design-
time solution that uni es all the required tasks for creating and maintaining B2B content based on a
comprehensive knowledge base and machine learning. With its current release ICA now supports generation
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of Mapping artifacts that can be consumed in SAP PI/PO and together with B2B add-on customers can
achieve fast and e cient B2B integration. There is a blog that explains the steps to accomplish the
integration between the two products.

Summary
This blog is an overview about the Process Integration Business to Business Add-on release 2.0 and the new
major features that it contains. Stay tuned for more interesting blogs in regards of the PI B2B Add-on.

Further Reading
SP5 Released: SAP Process Integration Business-to-Business Add-on
SP4 Released: B2B Add-On and Secure Connectivity Add-On
SP3 Released: B2B Add-On and Secure Connectivity Add-On
SP2 Released: B2B Add-On and Secure Connectivity Add-On
SP1 Released: B2B Add-On and Secure Connectivity Add-On

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Nitin Rao

June 26, 2019 at 2:36 pm

Thanks for this new update details

Do we know if this release is compatible on CPI/HCI or Do we have something di erent  now ?

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Hristina Raykova | Post author

July 2, 2019 at 8:07 am

This product is available only for PI/PO on-premise systems. It is not cloud-based Add-on. For CPI / HCI
there is another B2B solution.

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