SAP ABAP IMG Activity TR_VGWEIS_INBETR_DF (Procedure to Start Up the Datafeed)
Hierarchy
SAP_APPL (Software Component) Logistics and Accounting
   TR (Application Component) Treasury
     FTDF (Package) Treasury: Datafeed TR-TM-TM-TO-DF
IMG Activity
ID TR_VGWEIS_INBETR_DF Procedure to Start Up the Datafeed  
Transaction Code S_ALR_87007977   IMG Activity: TR_VGWEIS_INBETR_DF 
Created on 19981222    
Customizing Attributes TR_VGWEIS_INBETR_DF   Procedure to start up the datafeed 
Customizing Activity    
Document
Document Class SIMG   Hypertext: Object Class - Class to which a document belongs.
Document Name TR_VGWEIS_INBETR_DF    

Procedure for start-up of datafeed

Requirements

This procedure describes the steps that must be carried out before you make your Customizing settings for SAP datafeed. It also covers who is responsible for these steps.

The knowledge of the following people is required to set up the datafeed:

  • Customer: specifies his requirements.
  • Datafeed provider: e.g. Dow Jones, Reuters. These supply the knowledge about the available data and the external interface program.
  • SAP basis administrator: a person who knows how to install an SAP system or parts of it. This person must be able to install an SAP Standalone Gateway. This could be a customer employee or an external SAP consultant.
  • SAP application administrator: A person who has Treasury- specific knowledge and can perform Customizing in the SAP system.

The following steps are carried out prior to or during datafeed Customizing. Note that the steps are partly based on one another.

Step 1: Datafeed provider installs the datafeed (feed handling hardware, communications link).

Step 2: Install the hard- and software of the datafeed provider. In this procedure, we are assuming that, as is normally the case, the software of the datafeed provider is installed on a separate computer.

Step 3: Install SAP Treasury Management together with your SAP basis administrator. If you are reading this document in the system, this step has already been completed.

Step 4: In SAP Treasury Management, make the Customizing settings that are relevant for market data and for the customer. In particular, this includes all master data for currencies, securities, indexes, reference interest rates, forwards, and volatilities. The prerequisites are described in more detail in the "Translation table" chapter in the datafeed IMG documentation. Important: You do not perform the Customizing for step 4 in the "Datafeed" section of the IMG. In this step, you only make Customizing settings in other areas in order to fulfill the prerequisites for datafeed. Step 4 can be carried out in parallel to steps 1 and 2.

The market data range must be specified by the customer and/or SAP applications administrator. If the market data is to be fed into the system via datafeed, the availability of the market data must be discussed with the datafeed provider.

Step 5: Make sure the TCP/IP-network link between the computer with the datafeed provider's software and the SAP system works and runs smoothly. This is the customer's responsibility.

Step 6: Install the interface program of the datafeed partner on the separate computer, and ensure it is ready for operation.

Step 7: Install the Standalone SAP Gateway on the separate computer. This is the responsibility of the customer or the SAP Basis administrator. Note that this requires very specific knowledge! In some cases, you can do without the Standalone Gateway, but then settings must be carried out at operating system level. Ask your SAP administrator about this. In the following description, we assume that the Standalone Gateway has been installed.

Step 8: Make the technical settings in datafeed Customizing. You should do this directly after steps 6 and 7. This involves customers, SAP basis administrators, and datafeed providers.

Step 9 Maintain the translation table in datafeed Customizing. To do this, you must have completed step 4. The customer and the datafeed provider must agree upon the datafeed parameters in the translation table.

Step 10:Make the Customizing settings for market data monitoring, variants and jobs in order to supply the SAP system with market data on a regular basis. Customers and/or SAP application administrators are responsible for this step. Once you have completed step 10, you can go live with your datafeed.

Further notes

Steps 1, 2, 6, and 7 are not necessary if you are connected to a WEB server. Ask your datafeed provider if he can deliver the data to you from his WEB server and if he is certified to do this. SAP provides both an RFC interface and a WEB interface and lets the datafeed providers decide how the data reaches the SAP system.

Note that the web interface can deliver the market data only synchronously and thus on request of the SAP system.

Business Attributes
ASAP Roadmap ID 203   Establish Master Data 
Mandatory / Optional 1   Mandatory activity 
Critical / Non-Critical 1   Critical 
Country-Dependency A   Valid for all countries 
Assigned Application Components
Documentation Object Class Documentation Object Name Current line number Application Component Application Component Name
SIMG TR_VGWEIS_INBETR_DF 0 HLA0009209 Treasury 
Maintenance Objects
Maintenance object type    
History
Last changed by/on SAP  20011128 
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