Why does a CPIC ID required for RFC server to connect to R/3

dnsjain · Post by **dnsjain** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 9:06 pm

In my DataStage jobs I am getting data from R/3 through IDOC Extract stage. The way I understand is RFC server recieves all the IDOC sent by SAP R/3 on tRFC destination and passes them to DataStage server through PSA.

Some member of security team are saying that if you RFC server is recieving only IDOC's then I do not need SAP CPIC ID for the RFC server.

I read the documentation and it seems to me that CPIC ID is needed to send the status message back. Is there any other reason for which I need CPIC ID for the RFC server. I tried starting RFC server without the CPIC ID and it gave me an error so I am assuming that there must be some other reason too.

I will appreciate your inputs on this.

Thanks,
Dinesh

kommven · Post by **kommven** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 6:01 pm

See your DS Administrator for SAP guide.
It will help you how to define CPIC.