Overview

Universal Connector creates a dummy Command ID job using the process chain's chain ID as a job name.

Two steps are created for the job:

1. Log ID step to store the log ID of the associated process chain instance.
2. Command ID step to store the Universal Connector Command ID.

The dummy job is never started by Universal Connector. It is just used to associate the Universal Command ID process chain Unit of work with a specific SAP process chain instance.

Pre-XBP 2.0 CFT Mode

In pre-XBP 2.0 CFT mode, the Universal Connector Log ID and Command ID Job Steps are defined as external program steps. A string containing the process chain log ID is inserted in the parameter field of the log ID step and a string containing the command ID is inserted in the parameter field of the Command ID step.

Secure CFT Mode

In secure CFT mode, the Universal Connector log ID and command ID steps are defined as ABAP job steps. The ABAP program defined to the log ID and command ID steps is user configurable. Any ABAP program can be specified. The Universal Connector internal default ABAP program to use is BTCTEST. BTCTEST is a standard SAP ABAP program that should be available on all SAP systems. It does no real processing and can be considered a dummy program that does not interfere with job processing and places little overhead on the system.