In Figaf, we have added an Integration Assessment to give you an overview of your SAP PI/PO system before you start planning your migration. We have been improving the report to give a more useful result. If you were to ask a consultancy to create reports for your integration landscape, this would be worth thousands of euros; you can get it for free.
You can use the free Figaf Migration Edition, including the assessment report, to help assess your own migration or your customers’ migrations.
Figaf reports give you more details than SAP’s migration report, which only shows a summary. Figaf covers all details about your landscape. We give you a table with all the information about systems in the landscapes, File Content Conversion, RFC lookups used, Mapping Parameters, and much more that will allow you to avoid surprises in the migration.
SAP also offers its own migration tooling, which supports SAP PI/PO 7.31, 7.4 and 7.5. Figaf supports migration from PI 7.11 to 7.5, including dual-stack systems, so you can also use it on older releases.
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Assessing your migration with Figaf
The assessment from Figaf will give you information about what kind of setup you have in your landscape.
- Systems involved in the integration should give you an understanding of what is going on with it
- Channel types, channel status (2410)
- The Adapter Modules so you can see if there is any special handling happening.
- Which operation mappings are used
- Which types of mappings are used for each interface, is it message mappings, XSLT, java or ABAP
- Function libs and RFC Lookups
- Which scenario types are used
- Custom tags are a way to search for problems before the migration. We provide a default list of objects.
- BPMN scenarios
- Message run statistics
The tool supports both Receiver Determination and ICO objects. This makes it quite useful for people using older versions of SAP PI/PO. Figaf supports PI 7.11 to 7.5, including dual-stack systems.
Here is an example of the report (Excel file), generated with release 2212.1:
Once you start the migration, you can see which of the integrations have been migrated and moved into production.
And once you have installed the tool, you may also try the migration capabilities to convert an ICO to an iFlow, since it is just a click away.
Creating the report
It will probably take 10-20 minutes to install Figaf on your laptop and create the report.
- First you will need to sign up for the Figaf DevOps Suite. (Start here)
- Then you need to install it on your local PC
- Then connect to your SAP PI/PO system as an agent.
- Then you need to synchronize everything, which will download all artifacts
- Then you need to connect to a SAP CPI system. You just need to create an agent; it does not need to be connected. The report is designed to be used for a migration effort.
- Go to the migration configuration page then add your PI and CPI system
- Upload the custom tags and perform a search for it. The search can take some time
- Go to the migration overview page.
- Select generate report
- Investigate the result
Your input
Which information would you find useful when you are going to judge a migration and the effort involved with it? Please let us know on LinkedIn so we can improve it. In general we believe you should be able to migrate everything, your job is to consider what to redesign.
