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SAP Note 844817 - Technical information for the VMC based AP 7.00 engines

 Note Language: English Version: 4 Validity: Valid Since 03.09.2009

Summary

Symptom 

You require technical information about the AP Configuration Engine, AP

Pricing Engine or AP Tax Engine - i.e. one of the Virtual Machine Container

(VM Container, VMC) based engines in AP 7.00.

Other terms

Internet Pricing and Configurator (IPC), Virtual Machine Container (VMC),

CRM 5.0, SRM 5.0, ECC 6.0, SCM 5.0

Reason and Prerequisites

Solution

o Prerequisites

The AP Configuration Engine, AP Pricing Engine and AP Tax Engine

require the Virtual Machine Container) as runtime environment. The

VMC is part of SAP Basis 7.00. The VMC must be enabled (see note

854170).

To check whether the VMC is already up and running you can usereport RSVMCRT_HEALTH_CHECK (via transaction se38). It answers a

number of basic questions: Is the VMC enabled? Is the communication

between ABAP and JAVA working? Is the communication between JAVA

and ABAP working? If the test is successful, you will see four

green lights.

o Sizing

Sizing relevant documents can be found here:

http://service.sap.com/sizing

o Installation

The AP Configuration Engine, AP Pricing Engine and AP Tax Engine

are delivered as part of SAP AP 7.00 (Application Platform). The

engines do not require specific installation steps, dedicated

hosts, Java runtime environment or RFC destinations. High

availability or load balancing is ensured by SAP standard

mechanisms.

o Technical Configuration

For the AP Configuration Engine, AP Pricing Engine and AP Tax

Engine the following technical configuration can be changed: buffer

refresh times, logging and tracing.

For setting buffer refresh times see note 867428.

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For setting logging and tracing parameters see note 880687.

o Operation, Administration, Monitoring

For details see note 863354.

o Support Packages

The AP Configuration Engine, AP Pricing Engine and AP Tax Engine

are upgraded to a new support package just by upgrading your system

to the newest SAP AP 7.00 support package.

o Support Package Patches

The AP Configuration Engine, AP Pricing Engine and AP Tax Engine

are patched by downloading a support package dependent patch file

("support package patch"). For each support package exactly one

patch file is available.

For details see note 880749.

Header Data

Release Status: Released for Customer

Released on: 03.09.2009 06:49:42

Master Language: English

Priority: Recommendations/additional info

Category: Upgrade informationPrimary Component: CRM-IPC Internet Pricing and Configurator

Secondary Components:

AP-PRC-PR Pricing

AP-TTE Tax Engine

AP-CFG Product Configuration

 Valid Releases

Software Component Release From  

Release

To

Release

and

Subsequent

SAP_AP 700 700 700

Related Notes

 Number Short Text

884408 Forwarding database access of the VMC based AP 7.00 engines

880687 Logging and Tracing of VMC based AP 7.00 engines

867428 Adapt buffer refresh times of VMC based AP 7.00 engines

863354 Using the "VM container" component

855455 Setting up IPC if there is no platform support

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 Number Short Text

854170 Activating the component "VM Container"

844816 Information for Upgrade from IPC 4.0 to SAP AP 7.00