Using SAP HANA Cloud Integration could lead to the migration of existing interfaces from a SAP PI/PO installation to the cloud. There is though no upgrade path or easy and automated way to migrate your interfaces. The only possibility is to import existing Operation Mappings, Message Mappings and Service Definitions into HCI and set-up the configuration for the interface again.
How you can import objects from PI into HCI is described in the configuration guide section 2.3.5.
In this blog I want to share some thoughts with you on this functionality and hopefully you can give your opinion too.
The first step is to create a connection between the SAP PI/PO repository server and HCI. This connection can be defined within the preferences of SAP HANA Cloud Integration. You can define and test your connection from there.
Repository Objects can be imported into an Integration Project defined in your Eclipse perspective “Integration Designer”. One of the specific actions for an integration project is to “Import PI Content”. The next step is to select the object category you want select objects of and it will show you a list of all available objects in the repository.
The possibility to select an object does not ensure that the object is really imported. There are constraints on the objects which can be imported(section 2.3.5 from the Developers Guide). These constraints are checked after you have started the import.
If an object is not suitable to import there is a message displayed why the object could not be imported.
Despite the constraints, a lot of the mapping and interface objects will be suitable for reuse within HCI. There are though a few thoughts I would like to share with you.
1) The import of objects must be done for each Integration Project separately. Therefore if you have a great granularity within your Integration Projects you will have to do a lot if imports.
2) The constraints of not using function libraries, imported archives and mappings with multi messages of multi-mappings will lead to the conclusion that a lot of mappings cannot be reused.
3) The import of an operation mapping leads to an xml-file named like *.opmap. This xml-file contains references to the service definitions used and the mapping(XSL or message) between these service definitions. This operation mapping can only be imported from PI/PO and is not an artifact which can be created within HCI. Besides from typing the xml-file yourself of courseJ
4) The import of an Operation Mapping results in the import of the underlying objects. The message mapping(s) and the service definitions will be imported and the operation mapping itself is transformed into an xml-file.
5) If an object, which you would like to import, is already in your Integration Project it will not be overwritten. So be careful with imports and check if the correct version of your object is in HCI.
I hope this will make the reuse of PI objects within HCI a bit more clear. Please share your thoughts on this subject by commenting to the blog.
Best regards,
Fons
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