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Troubleshooting SAP Connector

This page contains common troubleshooting suggestions for Anypoint Connector for SAP (SAP Connector).

Common Throws

  • SAP:CONNECTIVITY

    A connection cannot be established.

  • SAP:INVALID_CACHE

    The cache used internally by the JCo library is corrupted or can’t be read.

  • SAP:INVALID_INPUT

    User input cannot be parsed or is incorrect.

  • SAP:METADATA_UNAVAILABLE

    The metadata for an IDoc segment is unavailable.

  • SAP:NOT_FOUND

    A function or IDoc template cannot be found or retrieved.

  • SAP:NOT_SUPPORTED

    An action occurs that is not supported by any JCo handler.

  • SAP:PARSING

    The JCo library has a parsing issue or the connector cannot convert XML to a BAPI function or an IDoc.

  • SAP:RETRY_EXHAUSTED

    Execution block retries are exhausted.

  • SAP:SYSTEM_BUSY

    The remote ABAP system is too busy to handle a request.

  • SAP:TIMEOUT

    A timeout exception happens inside the JCo library.

Common Solutions

Check Log Files

Mule stores these log files (on a per-application basis) in the $MULE_HOME\logs directory:

  • mule.log
    Default Mule log file

  • mule-app-YOUR_APP_NAME.log
    Per application log file

Enable JCo Trace

You can enable JCo trace externally from Mule. JCo trace accepts the following Java startup environment properties:

  • -Djco.trace_level=N
    Where 0 <= N <= 10, and 10 is the most detailed trace

  • -Djco.trace_path=<PATH>
    Optional

JCo supports trace levels from 0 (default) through 10. The amount of traced data increases with higher trace levels. Each trace level also contains all the trace data from the lower trace levels. If you are using a high JCo trace level with many JCo calls and transferred content, ensure that enough disk space is available.

To enable traces at the connector level:

  1. Set the attribute jcoTrace to true or provide the extended JCo property jco.client.trace or jco.server.trace with the value 1.

  2. Provide a value for -Djco.trace_level=N at Mule startup:

    Trace Level AS Java Severity Level JCo 3 Trace Content

    0

    NONE

    No trace

    1

    ERROR

    JCo version and runtime environment information and JCo internal errors and exceptions without application errors

    2

    WARNING

    JCo warning messages, for example, non-ABAP system exceptions

    3

    INFO

    JCo information messages, for example, ABAP exceptions

    4

    PATH

    RFC calls and important public API calls

    5

    DEBUG

    Important internal middleware calls
    Codepage information

    6

    DEBUG

    Connection attributes
    ASCII content data (the first 1000 chars of structures or the first 5 rows of tables)

    7

    DEBUG

    RFC metadata, which includes: name, type, offset, length, import and export options, and additional hexadecimal values for content data

    8

    DEBUG

    Full content data dump (no character or row limits)
    Caller stack trace information, for example, getClient() identifies the application

    9

    DEBUG

    No additional information (reserved for future use)

    10

    DEBUG

    No additional information (reserved for future use)

  3. Optionally, provide a value for -Djco.trace_path=<PATH>. This is usually the complete path to an existing directory where the trace files are stored, but you can apply other special values:

    • stdout
      JCo trace information is sent to standard output stream

    • stderr
      JCo trace information is sent to standard error stream

If -Djco.trace_path is not set, then trace files are stored in the working directory. For Mule standalone instances, this is usually the $MULE_HOME/bin folder.

Common Errors

Missing JCo Libraries Errors

These errors typically occur when you test the connection or try to deploy the Mule application without loading one or more of the required SAP JCo dependencies:

  • Missing JCo native library

    java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError: JCo initialization failed with java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: no sapjco3 in java.library.path
    SAP Error JCo Native Library

  • Missing JCo JAR

    java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/sap/conn/jco/JCoTraceListener
    SAP Error JCo JAR

  • Missing IDoc JAR

    java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/sap/conn/idoc/IDocMetaDataUnavailableException
    SAP Error IDoc JAR

To resolve this error:

  1. Click the Add File button next to the dependency with the red exclamation mark icon in the Required dependencies section.

  2. Browse through the dependencies and select the appropriate file.
    The missing dependencies are automatically added to the project’s classpath.

In Package Explorer, right-click the project and navigate to Build Path > Configure Build Path to see the libraries in the project’s build path.

JCo Classloader Conflicts

When you load the native library from the global configuration, a copy of the file is placed inside $YOUR_APP/src/main/app/lib, but the source file is not removed; hence, you get the following exception if it shares the same directory as the JCo JAR files when testing the connection or deploying your app:

java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError: JCo initialization failed with java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: Native Library /home/mule/sap-errors/lib/jco/libsapjco3.so already loaded in another classloader
SAP Error JCo Classloader Folder

To resolve this error:

Choose either of the following solutions. The first is the simplest, but the second is the best practice approach.

  • Remove the duplicate native library file from the directory where your JCo JAR files reside:

SAP Error JCo Classloader Fix

  • Configure the environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH to hold the dynamic link library and share it across multiple applications deployed within the same Mule runtime server.

JCo Version Conflicts

The most frequent cause of the following error is that different versions of the native library and JCo JAR files are being used:

java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError: Native library sapjco3 is too old. Found library System-defined path to libsapjco3.so has version "720.612", but required is at least version "720.713".

To resolve this error, ensure that the following requirements are met:

  • 64-bit JCo is required on a JVM that runs in 64-bit mode, and 32-bit JCo is required on a JVM that runs in 32-bit mode.

  • On Microsoft Windows, JCo requires the Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 C/C++ runtime libraries.

  • Both the sapjco.jar, and one of sapjco3.dll or sapjco3.so or sapjco3.jnilib must be from the same JCo package.

To verify the versions of the JCo libraries that you are using, do one of the following:

  • On Windows (in the UI):

    1. Navigate to the directory where the sapjco3.jar file is located.

    2. Right-click the sapjco3.jar file.

    3. Select Open With from the context menu.

    4. Click the Java 2 Platform Standard Edition binary.

    5. Verify the information shown in the JCo dialog that displays.

  • On Mac:

    1. Open a terminal window.

    2. Navigate to the directory where the sapjco3.jar file is located.

    3. Execute the command java -jar sapjco3.jar -version.

    4. Verify the information shown in the JCo dialog that displays.

JCo Renaming Conflicts

You cannot rename any of the SAP JCo library files in JCo 3.0.11 or later as they won’t be recognized by JCo, and you receive the following error:

java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError: Illegal JCo archive "sapjco3-3.0.11.jar". It is not allowed to rename or repackage the original archive "sapjco3.jar"

To resolve this error:

If you are using Apache Maven, configure maven-dependency-plugin with the attribute <stripVersion>true</stripVersion>. When you do this, the version numbers of all of the dependent libraries are removed when copying the JCo artifacts.

Further information is available externally at the Apache Maven Dependency Plugin.

Message Not an SAP Object

The endpoint expects an SAP object with the input parameters that are necessary to execute a BAPI or an IDoc.

If you receive the following message, either:

  • The necessary input parameters were not provided.

  • The input parameters were provided but the SAP object is malformed.

org.mule.api.transport.DispatchException: Message is not a SAP object, it is of type "byte[]". Check the transformer for this Connector "SapConnector". Failed to route event via endpoint: SapOutboundEndpoint{endpointUri=sap://function, connector=SapConnector
{
 name=SapConnector
 lifecycle=start
 this=4571cebe
 numberOfConcurrentTransactedReceivers=4
 createMultipleTransactedReceivers=true
 connected=true
 supportedProtocols=[sap]
 serviceOverrides=<none>
}
,  name='endpoint.sap.function', mep=ONE_WAY, properties={evaluateFunctionResponse=false, bapiTransaction=false, functionName=BAPI_MATERIAL_AVAILABILITY, rfcType=srfc, outputXml=true}, transactionConfig=Transaction{factory=null, action=INDIFFERENT, timeout=0}, deleteUnacceptedMessages=false, initialState=started, responseTimeout=10000, endpointEncoding=UTF-8, disableTransportTransformer=false}. Message payload is of type: byte[]

To resolve this issue:

Create an SAP object that represents the call to the BAPI or IDoc by performing one of the following two actions:

  • Create XML that contains an SAP Object with the BAPI call.

  • Provide an XML definition that includes input to create the actual SAP call.

IDoc Metadata Unavailable

When you receive the following error, it means that the RFC destination does not support Unicode:

RfcException: [mc-vmware|a_rfc] message: (3) IDOC_ERROR_METADATA_UNAVAILABLE: The meta data for the IDoc type "??????????????????????????å å" with extension "  ORDSAPB6L B60CL          ???" is unavailable.
    Return code: RFC_FAILURE(1)
    error group: 104
    key: RFC_ERROR_SYSTEM_FAILURE

To resolve this error:

Use transaction SM59 to configure Unicode support in your SAP instance.

Missing TID Handler

Because no TID handler is defined, you receive the following exception:

RfcException: [mule.local|MULESOFT_IDOC_SEND_TEST]
    message: check TID fault: No transaction handler is installed. Unable to process tRFC/qRFC requests.
    Return code: RFC_FAILURE(1)
    error group: 104
    key: RFC_ERROR_SYSTEM_FAILURE
Exception raised by myhost.com.ar|MULESOFT_IDOC_SEND_TEST
    at com.sap.conn.jco.rt.MiddlewareJavaRfc$JavaRfcServer.playbackTRfc(MiddlewareJavaRfc.java:2625)
    at com.sap.conn.jco.rt.MiddlewareJavaRfc$JavaRfcServer.handletRfcRequest(MiddlewareJavaRfc.java:2546)
    at com.sap.conn.jco.rt.MiddlewareJavaRfc$JavaRfcServer.listen(MiddlewareJavaRfc.java:2367)
    at com.sap.conn.jco.rt.DefaultServerWorker.dispatch(DefaultServerWorker.java:284)
    at com.sap.conn.jco.rt.DefaultServerWorker.loop(DefaultServerWorker.java:369)
    at com.sap.conn.jco.rt.DefaultServerWorker.run(DefaultServerWorker.java:245)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:680)

To resolve this error:

Set rfcType to trfc or qrfc in <sap:inbound-endpoint />.

Parameter Not Supported

Because SAP extended properties must have valid names, if you provide an invalid property name, you get an error message similar to this one:

Root Exception stack trace:
RfcException: [null]
message: Parameter 'type' not supported: 'f'
Return code: RFC_INVALID_PARAMETER(19)
error group: 101
key: RFC_ERROR_PROGRAM

at com.sap.conn.rfc.api.RfcOptions.checkParameters(RfcOptions.java:182)
at com.sap.conn.jco.rt.MiddlewareJavaRfc$JavaRfcClient.connect(MiddlewareJavaRfc.java:1328)
at com.sap.conn.jco.rt.ClientConnection.connect(ClientConnection.java:731)
+ 3 more (set debug level logging or '-Dmule.verbose.exceptions=true' for everything)

In this example, JCo libraries are reporting that the parameter with name type is not valid.

To resolve this error:

Provide a valid property name from JCo extended properties.

Multiple JCo Servers Running

Two or more JCo servers cannot have the same set of configuration parameters, even if they have different configuration names.

You receive the following error:

ERROR 2012-07-05 10:11:30,525 [WrapperListener_start_runner] com.mulesoft.mule.transport.sap.SapMessageReceiver: Error connecting to server
com.sap.conn.jco.JCoException: (101) JCO_ERROR_CONFIGURATION: Server configuration for sapavalara-1.0-SNAPSHOT-gettax is already used for a running server
at com.sap.conn.jco.rt.StandaloneServerFactory.update(StandaloneServerFactory.java:358)
at com.sap.conn.jco.rt.StandaloneServerFactory.getServerInstance(StandaloneServerFactory.java:176)
at com.sap.conn.jco.server.JCoServerFactory.getServer(JCoServerFactory.java:74)
at com.mulesoft.mule.transport.sap.jco3.SapJcoRfcServer.initialise(SapJcoRfcServer.java:46)
at com.mulesoft.mule.transport.sap.jco3.SapJcoServerFactory.create(SapJcoServerFactory.java:60)
at com.mulesoft.mule.transport.sap.SapMessageReceiver.doConnect(SapMessageReceiver.java:56)
at org.mule.transport.AbstractTransportMessageHandler.connect(AbstractTransportMessageHandler.java:218)
at org.mule.transport.AbstractConnector.registerListener(AbstractConnector.java:1254)
This applies only to Mule applications running on the same Mule server. Nodes on a Mule server group do not have this limitation.

To resolve this error:

Use the following attributes to create the server group key (which determines the uniqueness of a JCo server connection):

  • jco.server.gwhost

  • jco.server.gwserv

  • jco.server.progid

You can start two servers in the same Mule instance (JCo keeps this information in a Singleton class) only if they have different values for gwhost, gwserv, and progid.

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