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Anypoint Connector for SAP (SAP Connector) enables Mule runtime engine (Mule) support for SAP integration, as an SAP-certified Java connector that leverages the SAP Java Connector (JCo) libraries.

This connector is not supported for use with Flow Designer in Anypoint Design Center.

5.9.5

February 28, 2024

What’s New

  • You can now run the connector in a CloudHub 2.0 environment when using the Certificate connection type with SAP CommonCryptoLib.

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.1.1 and later

Anypoint Studio

7.4 and later

OpenJDK

8, 11, and 17

Supported SAP ERP Central Component

SAP ECC 6.0

Supported SAP JCo libraries

3.0.x, 3.1.x

Supported SAP IDoc libraries

3.0.x, 3.1.x

Supported SAP Business Suites Products

SAP Solution Manager, SAP CRM, SAP ERP, SAP PLM, SAP SCM, and SAP SRM based on the NetWeaver Platform

Supported SAP Industrial Solutions

SAP Retail, SAP Banking

5.9.4

February 1, 2024

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.1.1 and later

Anypoint Studio

7.4 and later

OpenJDK

8, 11, and 17

Supported SAP ERP Central Component

SAP ECC 6.0

Supported SAP JCo libraries

3.0.x, 3.1.x

Supported SAP IDoc libraries

3.0.x, 3.1.x

Supported SAP Business Suites Products

SAP Solution Manager, SAP CRM, SAP ERP, SAP PLM, SAP SCM, and SAP SRM based on the NetWeaver Platform

Supported SAP Industrial Solutions

SAP Retail, SAP Banking

Fixed Issues

Issue Resolution ID

The connector now correctly parses a nested structure in the metadata.

W-14710871

The ROW fields inside a table row in a BAPI function are now correctly parsed.

W-14808509

5.9.3

January 9, 2024

What’s New

  • This connector is now compatible with Java 17.

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.1.1 and later

Anypoint Studio

7.4 and later

OpenJDK

8, 11, and 17

Supported SAP ERP Central Component

SAP ECC 6.0

Supported SAP JCo libraries

3.0.x, 3.1.x

Supported SAP IDoc libraries

3.0.x, 3.1.x

Supported SAP Business Suites Products

SAP Solution Manager, SAP CRM, SAP ERP, SAP PLM, SAP SCM, and SAP SRM based on the NetWeaver Platform

Supported SAP Industrial Solutions

SAP Retail, SAP Banking

5.9.2

December 11, 2023

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.1.1 and later

Anypoint Studio

7.4 and later

OpenJDK

8 and 11

Supported SAP ERP Central Component

SAP ECC 6.0

Supported SAP JCo libraries

3.0.x, 3.1.x

Supported SAP IDoc libraries

3.0.x, 3.1.x

Supported SAP Business Suites Products

SAP Solution Manager, SAP CRM, SAP ERP, SAP PLM, SAP SCM, and SAP SRM based on the NetWeaver Platform

Supported SAP Industrial Solutions

SAP Retail, SAP Banking

Fixed Issues

Issue Resolution ID

The Function Listener source no longer encounters a deadlock when the flow completes and processes the event.

W-14556339

5.9.1

September 19, 2023

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.1.1 and later

Anypoint Studio

7.4 and later

OpenJDK

8 and 11

Supported SAP ERP Central Component

SAP ECC 6.0

Supported SAP JCo libraries

3.0.x, 3.1.x

Supported SAP IDoc libraries

3.0.x, 3.1.x

Supported SAP Business Suites Products

SAP Solution Manager, SAP CRM, SAP ERP, SAP PLM, SAP SCM, and SAP SRM based on the NetWeaver Platform

Supported SAP Industrial Solutions

SAP Retail, SAP Banking

Fixed Issues

Issue Resolution ID

The new Asynchronous RFC and Synchronous RFC operations introduced in SAP 5.9.0 are now renamed to Asynchronous Remote Function Call and Synchronous Remote Function Call. The operations deprecated in SAP 5.9.0 are now renamed to Asynchronous Remote Function Call (Deprecated) and Synchronous Remote Function Call (Deprecated). The new operations can be used only with the latest JCo library (3.1.x) and the deprecated operations in SAP 5.9.0 can be used only with the earlier JCo library (3.0.x).

W-14070158

5.9.0

September 1, 2023

What’s New

  • You can now use the new Asynchronous RFC and Synchronous RFC operations to enforce payload validation and ensure that the provided payload contains only the supported fields when calling a BAPI function. The existing Asynchronous Remote Function Call and Synchronous Remote Function Call operations are now deprecated, so you must use the new Asynchronous RFC and Synchronous RFC operations.

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.1.1 and later

Anypoint Studio

7.4 and later

OpenJDK

8 and 11

Supported SAP ERP Central Component

SAP ECC 6.0

Supported SAP JCo libraries

3.0.x, 3.1.x

Supported SAP IDoc libraries

3.0.x, 3.1.x

Supported SAP Business Suites Products

SAP Solution Manager, SAP CRM, SAP ERP, SAP PLM, SAP SCM, and SAP SRM based on the NetWeaver Platform

Supported SAP Industrial Solutions

SAP Retail, SAP Banking

Fixed Issues

Issue Resolution ID

Some logs are now at the DEBUG level as intended instead of the INFO level.

W-14050231

5.8.0

April 20, 2023

What’s New

  • You can now filter IDocs by the type extension by using the new Idoc Type Extension Filter Regex field in the Document listener source.

  • The Encoding field is now exposed as an optional field in sources and in some operations.

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.1.1 and later

Anypoint Studio

7.4 and later

OpenJDK

8 and 11

Supported SAP ERP Central Component

SAP ECC 6.0

Supported SAP JCo libraries

3.0.x, 3.1.x

Supported SAP IDoc libraries

3.0.x, 3.1.x

Supported SAP Business Suites Products

SAP Solution Manager, SAP CRM, SAP ERP, SAP PLM, SAP SCM, and SAP SRM based on the NetWeaver Platform

Supported SAP Industrial Solutions

SAP Retail, SAP Banking

Fixed Issues

Issue Resolution ID

The connector now correctly maps a value for a table that contains another table.

W-12970067

5.7.0

January 13, 2023

What’s New

  • You can now achieve SAP SNC with Kerberos using the new Kerberos connection type.

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.1.1 and later

Anypoint Studio

7.4 and later

OpenJDK

8 and 11

Supported SAP ERP Central Component

SAP ECC 6.0

Supported SAP JCo libraries

3.0.x, 3.1.x

Supported SAP IDoc libraries

3.0.x, 3.1.x

Supported SAP Business Suites Products

SAP Solution Manager, SAP CRM, SAP ERP, SAP PLM, SAP SCM, and SAP SRM based on the NetWeaver Platform

Supported SAP Industrial Solutions

SAP Retail, SAP Banking

5.6.3

October 5, 2022

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.1.1 and later

Anypoint Studio

7.4 and later

OpenJDK

8 and 11

Supported SAP ERP Central Component

SAP ECC 6.0

Supported SAP JCo libraries

3.0.x, 3.1.x

Supported SAP IDoc libraries

3.0.x, 3.1.x

Supported SAP Business Suites Products

SAP Solution Manager, SAP CRM, SAP ERP, SAP PLM, SAP SCM, and SAP SRM based on the NetWeaver Platform

Supported SAP Industrial Solutions

SAP Retail, SAP Banking

Fixed Issues

Issue ID

The connector now sends the response back to SAP.

W-11686868

5.6.2

September 8, 2022

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.1.1 and later

Anypoint Studio

7.4 and later

OpenJDK

8 and 11

Supported SAP ERP Central Component

SAP ECC 6.0

Supported SAP JCo libraries

3.0.x, 3.1.x

Supported SAP IDoc libraries

3.0.x, 3.1.x

Supported SAP Business Suites Products

SAP Solution Manager, SAP CRM, SAP ERP, SAP PLM, SAP SCM, and SAP SRM based on the NetWeaver Platform

Supported SAP Industrial Solutions

SAP Retail, SAP Banking

Fixed Issues

Issue ID

The connector now establishes two RFC source connections at the same time.

W-11686906

5.6.1

August 29, 2022

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.1.1 and later

Anypoint Studio

7.4 and later

OpenJDK

8 and 11

Supported SAP ERP Central Component

SAP ECC 6.0

Supported SAP JCo libraries

3.0.x, 3.1.x

Supported SAP IDoc libraries

3.0.x, 3.1.x

Supported SAP Business Suites Products

SAP Solution Manager, SAP CRM, SAP ERP, SAP PLM, SAP SCM, and SAP SRM based on the NetWeaver Platform

Supported SAP Industrial Solutions

SAP Retail, SAP Banking

Fixed Issues

Issue ID

Sending IDocs with empty segments no longer fails.

W-11610118

5.6.0

July 8, 2022

What’s New

  • You can now update a specific row in a table by adding the new INDEX_ROW_UPDATE parameter to the payload when using Function Listener.

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.1.1 and later

Anypoint Studio

7.4 and later

OpenJDK

8 and 11

Supported SAP ERP Central Component

SAP ECC 6.0

Supported SAP JCo libraries

3.0.x, 3.1.x

Supported SAP IDoc libraries

3.0.x, 3.1.x

Supported SAP Business Suites Products

SAP Solution Manager, SAP CRM, SAP ERP, SAP PLM, SAP SCM, and SAP SRM based on the NetWeaver Platform

Supported SAP Industrial Solutions

SAP Retail, SAP Banking

5.5.1

February 1, 2022

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.1.1 and later

Anypoint Studio

7.4 and later

OpenJDK

8 and 11

Supported SAP ERP Central Component

SAP ECC 6.0

Supported SAP JCo libraries

3.0.x, 3.1.x

Supported SAP IDoc libraries

3.0.x, 3.1.x

Supported SAP Business Suites Products

SAP Solution Manager, SAP CRM, SAP ERP, SAP PLM, SAP SCM, and SAP SRM based on the NetWeaver Platform

Supported SAP Industrial Solutions

SAP Retail, SAP Banking

Fixed Issues

Issue ID

SAP Connector did not work with multiple function listeners that used the same program ID.

SE-24176

5.5.0

January 18, 2022

What’s New

  • Added a new parameter, Use SAP Format On Function Listener, to control the SAP date format on the function listener.

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.1.1 and later

Anypoint Studio

7.4 and later

OpenJDK

8 and 11

Supported SAP ERP Central Component

SAP ECC 6.0

Supported SAP JCo libraries

3.0.x, 3.1.x

Supported SAP IDoc libraries

3.0.x, 3.1.x

Supported SAP Business Suites Products

SAP Solution Manager, SAP CRM, SAP ERP, SAP PLM, SAP SCM, and SAP SRM based on the NetWeaver Platform

Supported SAP Industrial Solutions

SAP Retail, SAP Banking

Fixed Issues

Issue ID

The SAP connector date format for the function listener was always SAP format.

SE-23450

SAP remote function calls returned an incomplete byte array.

SE-23534

SAP objects' metadata inside a table rendered incorrectly.

SE-23232

5.4.1

November 10, 2021

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.1.1 and later

Anypoint Studio

7.4 and later

OpenJDK

8 and 11

Supported SAP ERP Central Component

SAP ECC 6.0

Supported SAP JCo libraries

3.0.x, 3.1.x

Supported SAP IDoc libraries

3.0.x, 3.1.x

Supported SAP Business Suites Products

SAP Solution Manager, SAP CRM, SAP ERP, SAP PLM, SAP SCM, and SAP SRM based on the NetWeaver Platform

Supported SAP Industrial Solutions

SAP Retail, SAP Banking

Fixed Issues

Issue ID

The application was unresponsive after restarting SAP Connector.

SE-23348

5.4.0

November 2, 2021

What’s New

  • The Document Listener and Function Listener sources can now connect to SAP via Message Server.

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.1.1 and later

Anypoint Studio

7.4 and later

OpenJDK

8 and 11

Supported SAP ERP Central Component

SAP ECC 6.0

Supported SAP JCo libraries

3.0.x, 3.1.x

Supported SAP Business Suites Products

SAP Solution Manager, SAP CRM, SAP ERP, SAP PLM, SAP SCM, and SAP SRM based on the NetWeaver Platform

Supported SAP Industrial Solutions

SAP Retail, SAP Banking

5.3.5

September 29, 2021

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.1.1 and later

Anypoint Studio

7.4 and later

OpenJDK

8 and 11

Supported SAP ERP Central Component

SAP ECC 6.0

Supported SAP JCo libraries

3.0.x, 3.1.x

Supported SAP Business Suites Products

SAP Solution Manager, SAP CRM, SAP ERP, SAP PLM, SAP SCM, and SAP SRM based on the NetWeaver Platform

Supported SAP Industrial Solutions

SAP Retail, SAP Banking

Fixed Issues

Issue ID

SAP request-response pattern did not work for the latest Mule version.

CONN-8906

5.3.4

September 7, 2021

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.1.1 and later

Anypoint Studio

7.4 and later

OpenJDK

8 and 11

Supported SAP ERP Central Component

SAP ECC 6.0

Supported SAP JCo libraries

3.0.x, 3.1.x

Supported SAP Business Suites Products

SAP Solution Manager, SAP CRM, SAP ERP, SAP PLM, SAP SCM, and SAP SRM based on the NetWeaver Platform

Supported SAP Industrial Solutions

SAP Retail, SAP Banking

Fixed Issues

Issue ID

SAP connections did not close after stopping the application.

SE-21151

5.3.3

July 16, 2021

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.1.1 and later

Anypoint Studio

7.4 and later

OpenJDK

8 and 11

Supported SAP ERP Central Component

SAP ECC 6.0

Supported SAP JCo libraries

3.0.x, 3.1.x

Supported SAP Business Suites Products

SAP Solution Manager, SAP CRM, SAP ERP, SAP PLM, SAP SCM, and SAP SRM based on the NetWeaver Platform

Supported SAP Industrial Solutions

SAP Retail, SAP Banking

Fixed Issues

  • SAP Document Listener received messages based on the SAP debug log but did not trigger a flow. (SE-21727)

  • SAP Function Listener stopped receiving messages after multiple exceptions. (SE-21728)

5.3.2

June 2, 2021

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.1.1 and later

Anypoint Studio

7.4 and later

OpenJDK

8 and 11

Supported SAP ERP Central Component

SAP ECC 6.0

Supported SAP JCo libraries

3.0.x, 3.1.x

Supported SAP Business Suites Products

SAP Solution Manager, SAP CRM, SAP ERP, SAP PLM, SAP SCM, and SAP SRM based on the NetWeaver Platform

Supported SAP Industrial Solutions

SAP Retail, SAP Banking

Fixed Issues

SAP Connector parsed DateTime objects using the hhmmss format instead of the HHmmss format. (SE-20522)

5.3.1

May 12, 2021

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.1.1 and later

Anypoint Studio

7.4 and later

OpenJDK

8 and 11

Supported SAP ERP Central Component

SAP ECC 6.0

Supported SAP JCo libraries

3.0.x, 3.1.x

Supported SAP Business Suites Products

SAP Solution Manager, SAP CRM, SAP ERP, SAP PLM, SAP SCM, and SAP SRM based on the NetWeaver Platform

Supported SAP Industrial Solutions

SAP Retail, SAP Banking

Fixed issues

The Runtime Manager restart of connections to the SAP environment hung and blocked the application. (SE-19866)

5.3.0

January 29, 2021

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.1.1 and later

Anypoint Studio

7.4 and later

OpenJDK

8 and 11

Supported SAP ERP Central Component

SAP ECC 6.0

Supported SAP JCo libraries

3.0.x, 3.1.x

Supported SAP Business Suites Products

SAP Solution Manager, SAP CRM, SAP ERP, SAP PLM, SAP SCM, and SAP SRM based on the NetWeaver Platform

Supported SAP Industrial Solutions

SAP Retail, SAP Banking

Features

Multiple DocumentSources and FunctionSources can now connect to the same SAP instance and listen to the same Program ID, Host, and Gateway.

5.2.1

January 26, 2021

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.1.1 and later

Anypoint Studio

7.4 and later

OpenJDK

8 and 11

Supported SAP ERP Central Component

SAP ECC 6.0

Supported SAP JCo libraries

3.0.x, 3.1.x

Supported SAP Business Suites Products

SAP Solution Manager, SAP CRM, SAP ERP, SAP PLM, SAP SCM, and SAP SRM based on the NetWeaver Platform

Supported SAP Industrial Solutions

SAP Retail, SAP Banking

Fixed Issues

Mule runtime engine did not release the connections to the gateway after the application restarted. (SE-18647)

5.2.0

December 17, 2020

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.1.1 and later

Anypoint Studio

7.4 and later

OpenJDK

8 and 11

Supported SAP ERP Central Component

SAP ECC 6.0

Supported SAP JCo libraries

3.0.x, 3.1.x

Supported SAP Business Suites Products

SAP Solution Manager, SAP CRM, SAP ERP, SAP PLM, SAP SCM, and SAP SRM based on the NetWeaver Platform

Supported SAP Industrial Solutions

SAP Retail, SAP Banking

Fixed Issues

  • An error was not thrown for an IDoc parsing exception. (SE-18502)

  • Some exceptions logged at the ERROR level should have been logged at the DEBUG level. (SE-18631)

Features

  • Added IDocXMLProcessor parse and render options.

5.1.11

November 25, 2020

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.1.1 and later

Anypoint Studio

7.4 and later

OpenJDK

8 and 11

Supported SAP ERP Central Component

SAP ECC 6.0

Supported SAP JCo libraries

3.0.x, 3.1.x

Supported SAP Business Suites Products

SAP Solution Manager, SAP CRM, SAP ERP, SAP PLM, SAP SCM, and SAP SRM based on the NetWeaver Platform

Supported SAP Industrial Solutions

SAP Retail, SAP Banking

Fixed Issues

  • SAP Connector could not process certain Japanese characters on Windows.(SE-18494)

5.1.10

October 26, 2020

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.1.1 and later

Anypoint Studio

7.4 and later

OpenJDK

8 and 11

Supported SAP ERP Central Component

SAP ECC 6.0

Supported SAP JCo libraries

3.0.x, 3.1.x

Supported SAP Business Suites Products

SAP Solution Manager, SAP CRM, SAP ERP, SAP PLM, SAP SCM, and SAP SRM based on the NetWeaver Platform

Supported SAP Industrial Solutions

SAP Retail, SAP Banking

Fixed Issues

  • When there was an odd number of Chinese characters in a request, SAP Connector could not process them. (SE-17904)

  • SAP Connector did not listen for IDOC/BAPI from two different SAP instances when they had the same program ID configured. (SE-17173)

5.1.9

September 18, 2020

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.1.1 and later

Anypoint Studio

7.4 and later

OpenJDK

8 and 11

Supported SAP ERP Central Component

SAP ECC 6.0

Supported SAP JCo libraries

3.0.x, 3.1.x

Supported SAP Business Suites Products

SAP Solution Manager, SAP CRM, SAP ERP, SAP PLM, SAP SCM, and SAP SRM based on the NetWeaver Platform

Supported SAP Industrial Solutions

SAP Retail, SAP Banking

Fixed Issues

Added support for dylib on the connector’s certificate connection.

5.1.8

August 31, 2020

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.1.1 and later

Anypoint Studio

7.4 and later

Java

8

Supported SAP ERP Central Component

SAP ECC 6.0

Supported SAP JCo libraries

3.0.x, 3.1.x

Supported SAP Business Suites Products

SAP Solution Manager, SAP CRM, SAP ERP, SAP PLM, SAP SCM, and SAP SRM based on the NetWeaver Platform

Supported SAP Industrial Solutions

SAP Retail, SAP Banking

Fixed Issues

Support version 3.1.x of the Sap Java Connector Library. (SE-16428)

5.1.7

June 29, 2020

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.1.1 and later

Anypoint Studio

7.4 and later

Java

8

Supported SAP ERP Central Component

SAP ECC 6.0

Supported SAP JCo libraries

3.0.x

Supported SAP Business Suites Products

SAP Solution Manager, SAP CRM, SAP ERP, SAP PLM, SAP SCM, and SAP SRM based on the NetWeaver Platform

Supported SAP Industrial Solutions

SAP Retail, SAP Banking

Fixed Issues

Fixed SAP outbound queue exception management. (SE-16428)

5.1.6

June 3, 2020

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.1.1 and later

Anypoint Studio

7.4 and later

Java

8

Supported SAP ERP Central Component

SAP ECC 6.0

Supported SAP JCo libraries

3.0.x

Supported SAP Business Suites Products

SAP Solution Manager, SAP CRM, SAP ERP, SAP PLM, SAP SCM, and SAP SRM based on the NetWeaver Platform

Supported SAP Industrial Solutions

SAP Retail, SAP Banking

Fixed Issues

Fixed a security vulnerability. (CONN-6222)

5.1.5

May 26, 2020

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.1.1 and later

Anypoint Studio

7.4 and later

Java

8

Supported SAP ERP Central Component

SAP ECC 6.0

Supported SAP JCo libraries

3.0.x

Supported SAP Business Suites Products

SAP Solution Manager, SAP CRM, SAP ERP, SAP PLM, SAP SCM, and SAP SRM based on the NetWeaver Platform

Supported SAP Industrial Solutions

SAP Retail, SAP Banking

Fixed Issues

  • Restarting an application failed to register the program ID and other apps stopped processing. (SE-14920)

  • SAP Connector failed to serialize incoming data into a valid XML object when the data contained 0x0. (SE-15986)

5.1.4

April 29, 2020

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.1.1 and later

Anypoint Studio

7.4 and later

Java

8

Supported SAP ERP Central Component

SAP ECC 6.0

Supported SAP JCo libraries

3.0.x

Supported SAP Business Suites Products

SAP Solution Manager, SAP CRM, SAP ERP, SAP PLM, SAP SCM, and SAP SRM based on the NetWeaver Platform

Supported SAP Industrial Solutions

SAP Retail, SAP Banking

Fixed Issues

  • SAP Connector failed to receive IDOC_INBOUND_ASYNCHRONOUS on the function source because of parsing issues. (SE-15632)

  • Metadata did not mark nodes as repeatable. (SE-14232)

5.1.3

April 16, 2020

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.1.1 and later

Anypoint Studio

7.4 and later

Java

8

Supported SAP ERP Central Component

SAP ECC 6.0

Supported SAP Business Suites Products

SAP Solution Manager, SAP CRM, SAP ERP, SAP PLM, SAP SCM, and SAP SRM based on the NetWeaver Platform

Supported SAP Industrial Solutions

SAP Retail, SAP Banking

Fixed Issues

  • Fixed existing vulnerabilities. (CONN-5801)

  • Fixed Munit cannot delete data folder while disposing an application in Windows. (SE-15095)

5.1.2

March 13, 2020

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.1.1 and later

Anypoint Studio

7.4 and later

Java

8

Supported SAP ERP Central Component

SAP ECC 6.0

Supported SAP Business Suites Products

SAP Solution Manager, SAP CRM, SAP ERP, SAP PLM, SAP SCM, and SAP SRM based on the NetWeaver Platform

Supported SAP Industrial Solutions

SAP Retail, SAP Banking

Fixed Issues

  • SAP Connector failed to parse fields that started with a digit. (SE-15150)

  • SAP Connector did not send field values with special characters in the name to SAP.

5.1.1

February 4, 2020

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.1.1 and later

Anypoint Studio

7.4 and later

Java

8

Supported SAP ERP Central Component

SAP ECC 6.0

Supported SAP Business Suites Products

SAP Solution Manager, SAP CRM, SAP ERP, SAP PLM, SAP SCM, and SAP SRM based on the NetWeaver Platform

Supported SAP Industrial Solutions

SAP Retail, SAP Banking

Fixed Issues

  • Fix for IDoc BENEFIT3 basic type missing from metadata list (SE-13986)

  • Fix for Found exception stopping source warning for Inbound SAP Function Source Connector (SE-14337)

5.1.0

December 30, 2019

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.1.1 and later

Anypoint Studio

7.4 and later

Java

8

Supported SAP ERP Central Component

SAP ECC 6.0

Supported SAP Business Suites Products

SAP Solution Manager, SAP CRM, SAP ERP, SAP PLM, SAP SCM, and SAP SRM based on the NetWeaver Platform

Supported SAP Industrial Solutions

SAP Retail, SAP Banking

Fixed Issues

  • SAP Connector table rows were missing in a response back to the SAP server. (SE-14063)

  • SAP Connector did not recognize all BAPI metadata. (SE-14018)

  • The JCO_ERROR_DESTINATION_DATA_INVALID error was incorrectly thrown in the SAP Connector. (SE-14098)

Features

  • Implemented metadata support for the function source.

  • Refactored error types to provide better error handling.

5.0.1

December 18, 2019

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.1.1 and later

Anypoint Studio

7.4 and later

Java

8

Supported SAP ERP Central Component

SAP ECC 6.0

Supported SAP Business Suites Products

SAP Solution Manager, SAP CRM, SAP ERP, SAP PLM, SAP SCM, and SAP SRM based on the NetWeaver Platform

Supported SAP Industrial Solutions

SAP Retail, SAP Banking

Fixed Issues

The issue where SAP Connector was not closing connections when the application was redeployed is fixed.

You must set the jco.destination.pool_capacity to 0 in the extended properties of the connector so the connection count is honored.

5.0.0

November 8, 2019

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.1.1 and later

Anypoint Studio

7.4 and later

Java

8

Supported SAP ERP Central Component

SAP ECC 6.0

Supported SAP Business Suites Products

SAP Solution Manager, SAP CRM, SAP ERP, SAP PLM, SAP SCM, and SAP SRM based on the NetWeaver Platform

Supported SAP Industrial Solutions

SAP Retail, SAP Banking

Features

This release contains the following new features and enhancements:

  • IDoc source filtering is added to enable users to filter the document type based on a regular expression. Any type of regular expression is supported.

  • The SAP X.509 certificate field is now required when the connection is Certificate.

  • The reconnection strategy on SAP (applies to operations only) is improved. With this enhancement, when a connection fails on the FunctionSource or DocumentSource, the JCo server automatically tries to reestablish a connection in the following way:

    • If a connection issue occurs, the JCo server retries immediately.

    • If the connection is not restored immediately, the JCo server waits for one second and retries.

    • If the connection is not restored after the second retry, the JCo server waits for two seconds and retries.

    • If the connection is still not restored, the JCo server retries at four seconds, and then again at eight seconds.

  • Message logging is added for when the connector is in debug mode.

  • The timeout parameter is removed because the JCo library does not support timeout functionality.

Fixed Issues

  • Fixed some memory leak issues

  • Fixed class loader leak issues

  • Adapted demos for the new operation

  • Updated documentation

  • Fixed the issue of the function source request-response pattern not working (SE-13280)

  • Made other general changes that increase the stability and improve the performance of the connector

Migration Information for SAP Connector 5.0

SAP Connector 5.0.0 provides some new features that provide a more efficient way to achieve the same results as in earlier versions. The new configuration also gives a better understanding of what configuration to use in the connector. These new features and enhancements may cause backward compatibility issues.

  • The Create operation is renamed Retrieve IDoc.

  • The execute BAPI functions over qRFC, tRFC, and sRFC operations are merged into Synchronous Remote Function Call (sRFC) and Asynchronous Remote Function Call (aRFC) operations.

  • Disable function template cache flag is renamed to Disable JCo internal cache, and applies to both functions and sources. The default value is false.

  • The sources now have -listener in their aliases instead of source. For example, the XML is changed from sap:document-source to sap:document-listener.

  • The SAP configuration has the following changes:

    • The SAP Inbound and SAP Outbound configurations are merged into the new SAP configuration.

    • The Message Server field is now in the General tab.

4.5.3

April 29, 2020

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.1.1 and later

Anypoint Studio

7.0 and later

Java

8

Supported SAP ERP Central Component

SAP ECC 6.0

Supported SAP Business Suites Products

SAP Solution Manager, SAP CRM, SAP ERP, SAP PLM, SAP SCM, SAP SRM based on the NetWeaver Platform

Supported SAP Industrial Solutions

SAP Retail, SAP Banking

Fixed Issues

  • SAP Connector failed to receive IDOC_INBOUND_ASYNCHRONOUS on the function source because of parsing issues. (SE-15632)

  • Metadata did not mark nodes as repeatable. (SE-14232)

  • Fixed Munit cannot delete data folder while disposing an application in Windows. (SE-15794)

4.5.2

March 6, 2020

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.1.1 and later

Anypoint Studio

7.0 and later

Java

8

Supported SAP ERP Central Component

SAP ECC 6.0

Supported SAP Business Suites Products

SAP Solution Manager, SAP CRM, SAP ERP, SAP PLM, SAP SCM, SAP SRM based on the NetWeaver Platform

Supported SAP Industrial Solutions

SAP Retail, SAP Banking

Fixed Issues

  • The issue that caused SAP Connector fail to parse fields starting with a digit is fixed. (SE-15150)

  • The issue that caused SAP Connector to not send values of fields with special characters in the name to SAP is fixed.

4.5.1

February 4, 2020

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.1.1 and later

Anypoint Studio

7.0 and later

Java

8

Supported SAP ERP Central Component

SAP ECC 6.0

Supported SAP Business Suites Products

SAP Solution Manager, SAP CRM, SAP ERP, SAP PLM, SAP SCM, SAP SRM based on the NetWeaver Platform

Supported SAP Industrial Solutions

SAP Retail, SAP Banking

Fixed Issues

  • Fix for IDoc BENEFIT3 basic type missing from metadata list (SE-13986)

  • Fix for Found exception stopping source warning for Inbound SAP Function Source Connector (SE-14337)

4.5.0

December 3, 2019

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.1.1 and later

Anypoint Studio

7.0 and later

Java

8

Supported SAP ERP Central Component

SAP ECC 6.0

Supported SAP Business Suites Products

SAP Solution Manager, SAP CRM, SAP ERP, SAP PLM, SAP SCM, SAP SRM based on the NetWeaver Platform

Supported SAP Industrial Solutions

SAP Retail, SAP Banking

Features

Added support for request-response pattern on all BAPIFunction parameters.

4.4.1

November 29, 2019

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.1.1 and later

Anypoint Studio

7.0 and later

Java

8

Supported SAP ERP Central Component

SAP ECC 6.0

Supported SAP Business Suites Products

SAP Solution Manager, SAP CRM, SAP ERP, SAP PLM, SAP SCM, SAP SRM based on the NetWeaver Platform

Supported SAP Industrial Solutions

SAP Retail, SAP Banking

Fixed Issues

  • Fixed SAP Connector metadata not being built for inner tables. (SE-14018)

  • Fixed SAP Connector not recognizing specific JCo error types as connection issues. (SE-14098)

4.4.0

November 25, 2019

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.1.1 and later

Anypoint Studio

7.0 and later

Java

8

Supported SAP ERP Central Component

SAP ECC 6.0

Supported SAP Business Suites Products

SAP Solution Manager, SAP CRM, SAP ERP, SAP PLM, SAP SCM, SAP SRM based on the NetWeaver Platform

Supported SAP Industrial Solutions

SAP Retail, SAP Banking

Features

This release contains the following new feature:

Implemented keys and output DataSense support for FunctionSource.

4.3.6

October 4, 2019

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.1.1 and later

Anypoint Studio

7.0 and later

Java

8

Supported SAP ERP Central Component

SAP ECC 6.0

Supported SAP Business Suites Products

SAP Solution Manager, SAP CRM, SAP ERP, SAP PLM, SAP SCM, SAP SRM based on the NetWeaver Platform

Supported SAP Industrial Solutions

SAP Retail, SAP Banking

Fixed Issue

SAP Connector’s FunctionSource request-response pattern didn’t support data of type Structure within an RFC response. (SE-13280)

4.3.5

September 20, 2019

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.1.1 and later

Anypoint Studio

7.0 and later

Java

8

Supported SAP ERP Central Component

SAP ECC 6.0

Supported SAP Business Suites Products

SAP Solution Manager, SAP CRM, SAP ERP, SAP PLM, SAP SCM, SAP SRM based on the NetWeaver Platform

Supported SAP Industrial Solutions

SAP Retail, SAP Banking

Fixed Issues

  • General connector improvements.

  • Refactoring to improve compliance with the Mule development best practices.

  • Deprecated the UNKNOWN error type that will be removed in the next major upcoming release.

4.3.4

August 23, 2019

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.1.1 and later

Anypoint Studio

7.0 and later

Java

8

Supported SAP ERP Central Component: SAP ECC 6.0.

Supported SAP Business Suites Products: SAP Solution Manager, SAP CRM, SAP ERP, SAP PLM, SAP SCM, SAP SRM based on Netweaver Platform.

Fixed Issues

  • Fixed missing configuration parameters in the source configuration. (SE-12658, SE-12484).

  • Fixed sRFC call that reported a successful response, but which had data missing on the SAP side. The timeout must be set to 0 (default value) to execute a function as a transaction. In this case, using a try scope. (SE-12681)

4.3.3

August 8, 2019

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.1.1 and later

Anypoint Studio

7.0 and later

Java

8

SAP Solution

SAP ECC 6.0 and its subsequent enhancement packages.

Supported Modules

SAP CRM, SAP ERP, SAP SRM, SAP SCM, and any other modules compatible with the NetWeaver platform.

Features

Updated connector icons.

4.3.2

July 26, 2019

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.1.1 and later

Anypoint Studio

7.0 and later

Java

8

SAP Solution

SAP ECC 6.0 and its subsequent enhancement packages.

Supported Modules

SAP CRM, SAP ERP, SAP SRM, SAP SCM, and any other modules compatible with the NetWeaver platform.

Features

Updated the dependency on the File connector to its latest version (1.2.4).

4.3.1

June 27, 2019

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.0.0 and later

Anypoint Studio

7.0 and later

Java

8

SAP Solution

SAP ECC 6.0 and its subsequent enhancement packages.

Supported Modules

SAP CRM, SAP ERP, SAP SRM, SAP SCM, and any other modules compatible with the NetWeaver platform.

Fixed Issue

Fixed UNICODE null character at the end of response XML (CONN-2455)

4.3.0

June 12, 2019

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.0.0 and later

Anypoint Studio

7.0 and later

Java

8

SAP Solution

ECC 6.0 and later

Supported Modules

SAP CRM, SAP ERP, SAP SRM, SAP SCM, and any other modules compatible with the NetWeaver platform.

Fixed Issues

  • Retrieving 50K records using the SAP connector results in an OOME inconsistency at 1.5 GB heap memory. (CONN-1838)

  • Unable to define the RFC timeout setting in the SAP connector in Mule 4.(SE-12045)

4.2.1

May 31, 2019

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.0.0 and later

Anypoint Studio

7.0 and later

Java

8

SAP Solution

ECC 6.0 and later

Supported Modules

SAP CRM, SAP ERP, SAP SRM, SAP SCM, and any other modules compatible with the NetWeaver platform.

Fixed Issues

  • SAP Connector - Wrong number format returned. Fixed by adding the new useSAPFormat parameter, which if set to true, returns the default values received from SAP. (SE-12022)

  • SAP Connector - Parsing error when the SAP response contains nested tables. (SE-11910)

  • Fixed SAP Connector vulnerability to an XML External Entity (XXE).

  • Fixed SAP Connector Encoding field with a hint description.

4.2.0

May 23, 2019

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.0.0 and later

Anypoint Studio

7.0 and later

Java

8

SAP Solution

ECC 6.0 and later

Supported Modules

SAP CRM, SAP ERP, SAP SRM, SAP SCM, and any other modules compatible with the NetWeaver platform.

Features

  • New SAP format for the date and time when working with BAPI functions over sRFC:

    A new parameter in the SAP outbound configuration has been added to the Global Element Properties > Advanced tab. The Use SAP date time format defaults to the false value. If true, the DATE and TIME fields are formatted as strings in the yyyy-MM-dd / HH:mm:ss format. If false, the DATE and TIME fields values are returned.

Fixed Issues

  • Added SAP date and time format (see Features for more information). (SE-11815)

  • The SAP connector did not accept special characters in an incoming BAPI function sRFC response. (SE-11651)

  • Configuring SNC in SAP connector was not working. Added message server configuration parameters:

    String JCO_MSHOST = "jco.client.mshost";
    String JCO_MSSERV = "jco.client.msserv";
    String JCO_R3NAME = "jco.client.r3name";
    String JCO_GROUP = "jco.client.group";
    String JCO_SAPROUTER = "jco.client.saprouter";

    These are reflections of JCo properties. (SE-10985)

4.1.6

May 10, 2019

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.0.0 and later

Anypoint Studio

7.0 and later

Java

8

SAP Solution

ECC 6.0 and later

Supported Modules

SAP CRM, SAP ERP, SAP SRM, SAP SCM, and any other modules compatible with the NetWeaver platform.

Fixed Issues

  • SAP connector is not honoring the encoding set in the configuration. (SE-11690)

  • I_DOCNUM is not being returned. (SE-11630)

4.1.5

April 10, 2019

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.0.0 and later

Anypoint Studio

7.0 and later

Java

8

SAP Solution

ECC 6.0 and later

Supported Modules

SAP CRM, SAP ERP, SAP SRM, SAP SCM, and any other modules compatible with the NetWeaver platform.

Fixed Issues

  • SAP Connector throws parsing XML error for a BAPI call (SE-11457)

  • Sap Connector caching JCOFunction templates. (SE-11417)

  • Solved the issue where empty tables would crash the metadata generation. (SE-10776)

4.1.4

April 4, 2019

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.0.0 and later

Anypoint Studio

7.0 and later

Java

8

SAP Solution

ECC 6.0 and later

Supported Modules

SAP CRM, SAP ERP, SAP SRM, SAP SCM, and any other modules compatible with the NetWeaver platform.

Fixed Issue

SAP connector did not accept slash / in a BAPI function call. (SE-10952)

4.1.3

March 28, 2019

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule

4.0.0 and later

Anypoint Studio

7.0 and later

Java

8

SAP Solution

ECC 6.0 and later

Supported Modules

SAP CRM, SAP ERP, SAP SRM, SAP SCM, and any other modules compatible with the NetWeaver platform.

Fixed Issues

  • Customer facing SAP connector was not able to update SAP correctly when IDOCs were sent as a collection. (SE-11221)

  • SAP connector did not accept slash "/" on a BAPI function call. (SE-10952)

4.1.2

March 8, 2019

Software Version

Mule

4.0.0 and later

Anypoint Studio

7.0 and later

Java

8

SAP Solution

ECC 6.0 and later

Supported Modules

SAP CRM, SAP ERP, SAP SRM, SAP SCM, and any other modules compatible with the NetWeaver platform.

Fixed Issues

  • Out of memory when retrieving data from SAP due to XML serialization. Solved by changing XML serialization implementation.

  • Fixed empty metadata name issue that caused the metadata generation to fail. The empty entries were removed so only the valid ones end up in the XML.

  • Fixed source not sending the response back to SAP in case of export parameters. Solved by implementing handling for this scenario.

4.1.1 - Deprecated

October 23, 2018

Software Version

Mule

4.0.0 and later

Anypoint Studio

7.0 and later

Java

8

SAP Solution

ECC 6.0 and later

Supported Modules

SAP CRM, SAP ERP, SAP SRM, SAP SCM, and any other modules compatible with the NetWeaver platform.

Fixed Issue

  • Duplicate IDoc elements were filtered. Now they are properly processed.

4.1.0 - Deprecated

July 25, 2018

Software Version

Mule

4.1.1 and later

Anypoint Studio

7.0 and later

Java

8

SAP Solution

ECC 6.0 and later

Supported Modules

SAP CRM, SAP ERP, SAP SRM, SAP SCM, and any other modules compatible with the NetWeaver platform.

Features

Minimum Mule version set to 4.1.1.

Fixed Issues

  • Trying to access row values in a table which does not have any rows yet was throwing an error. It doesn’t do that anymore now.

  • Connector can now be downloaded without having to add the releases repository in the settings.xml.

Known Issues

None

4.0.1 - Deprecated

July 17, 2018

Software Version

Mule

4.0.0 and later

Anypoint Studio

7.0 and later

Java

8

SAP Solution

ECC 6.0 and later

Supported Modules

SAP CRM, SAP ERP, SAP SRM, SAP SCM, and any other modules compatible with the NetWeaver platform.

Features

No new features added

Fixed Issue

Information was missing when Idocs are received in connector. The information is now properly transmitted.

See Also