Options for employee master data and organizational assignment replication
In SAP S/4HANA:
- Replication request viewer for employee replication requests (transaction ECPAO_EE_VIEWER).
- Application Log (transaction SLG1): Enables you to analyze incoming messages during replication of employee master data from Employee Central to SAP S/4HANA.
- Web Service Utilities → Error Log and Message Monitor: (transaction SRT_MONI): Enables you to monitor incoming SOAP messages from middleware.
In SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central:
- Data replication monitor: Provides information about the status of employee data replication between Employee Central and SAP S/4HANA.
- SFAPI audit log: Enables monitoring of API calls in Employee Central.
In the middleware:
- SAP Integration Suite provides a web-based monitoring UI.
- This allows you to check status of messages and integration content artifacts for a tenant cluster.
The View Employee Replication Requests (ECPAO_RPRQ_EE_VIEWER) program is used to access the staging area for employee master data and employee organizational assignments replicated from SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central.
When a replication run contains new or updated data for an employee, the SAP S/4HANA system creates a replication request in the staging area for that employee. The staging area separates the replication of the data from Employee Central from the processing of the data in SAP S/4HANA.
The replication requests are usually processed in the background so that the updates contained in them are stored in the corresponding infotypes in a timely manner.
In certain situations, it might be necessary to access the staging area directly to manage specific replication requests. In the setup phase of the replication, for example, errors can occur frequently. Until the replication runs successfully and the regular processing of the data in SAP S/4HANA can start, this program can be used to check the status of replication requests, analyze errors, simulate the processing of employee master data requests, and process requests manually.
Selecting replication requests
- When called for the first time, the staging area viewer shows the latest replication request with the status Open, Pending, or Failed for each employee.
- The selection can be changed to include other statuses, to a specific employee, to a specific time frame, or to view not only the latest, but all existing requests for an employee.
Viewing detailed information
The details are shown for the selected employees (up to 50 employees possible) in the details area at the bottom of the screen.
The details area comprises the following tabs:
- The Employee Details tab shows the key mapping for the selected employees.
- The Employee Log tab shows the application log for the latest request of an employee.
- The All Requests for Selected Employees tab shows the latest request of an employee, plus other existing requests that have other statuses.
Analyzing the application log
Select one employee to view the employee master data (choose Employee Data Log) or organizational assignment (choose Org Assignment Log) messages issued for multiple replication requests in the application log.
Viewing the payload of requests
Select up to 50 employees to show their messages in the message monitor. The message monitor shows the messages received for the EmployeeMasterDataAndOrgAssignmentBundleReplicationRequest_In inbound web service, along with their content (choose Message Monitor).
Requests: processing or simulating
Processing requests or simulating the processing of requests:
- Selected requests can be processed manually, without waiting for the next scheduled run of the processing program. It is possible to simulate the processing to check what will happen.
- Requests can be processed or the processing can be simulated with or without verbose logging. If verbose logging is not selected, the application log shows the errors that have occurred while processing the employee.
- If verbose logging is selected, the application log also shows the internal sequence of how the employee details are processed in the SAP S/4HANA system.
Checking the statistics shown for processed requests:
- After triggering the actual processing of one or more requests, the system lists the number of requests processed with each status.
- If a request can’t be processed, the employee is counted in the Not Processed category.
Monitoring – Additional log
The Monitor Employee Master Data Replication from Employee Central report (ECPAO_EE_INB_INVT_ALV) displays an overview of the replicated infotypes/subtypes.
Because a huge amount of employees might be replicated, it is recommended to use the selection criteria to run the report.
Moreover, it is possible to display the statistics only.
Messages can be displayed from the last simulation or real run.
