Connection from Portal to external systems

[UdayMS]

Hello Everyone,

We have new requirement wherein we need to get get the data from external (non SAP) systems into SAP Portal. The data lies in the tables of that external system. As of now the info I have is, its a MW IBM system and AS/400. What are the options for me to establish connection from Portal to these and read the data.

A custom application may be needed from Portal. Can anyone throw light on what are the options to achieve this.

Thanks

Uday

[roman_loshevsky]

Hi Uday,

You can develop Portal component and use SAP connection framework to get connection to external DB system.
Using the JDBC Connector - Portal - SAP Library

BR,
Roman.

[Former Member]

Hi,

Yes custom application is necessary.

You can use JDBC to connect to database of AS/400 as shown below

http://www.coderanch.com/t/496799/JDBC/databases/JDBC-java-code-connect-IBM

Build a Webdynpro Java application using this JDBC connection to display the data on to the Portal.