Unless SAP has changed in the last couple years, which I doubt....

You can not access the data directly thru ODBC. It would be foolhardy to even try. SAP has their data in a hugh amount of tables.

The only way to successfully access SAP data is thru SAP tools, so that you are using their data dictionary. They do offer a tool called 'BAPI' - Business API that allows for VB to work with SAP through ODBC. I never investigated to see if BAPI worked with VFP also.



>Woops - used my old account - If you read both, please respond to this one...
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>Does anyone have experience integrating their apps with SAP systems?
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>I have a prospective client who uses SAP throughout their organization. I know that at least their instance of SAP uses an Oracle backend. That's about all I know.
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>Can I interact with that Oracle backend via ODBC? Will it matter what platform they're running on (I assume some Unix derivative)? Any substantial gotchas to be aware of? Any questions I should be asking them regarding their implementation? What about VFP 6 performance with SAP - is it fast?
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>Any thoughts or experiences with SAP would be greatly appreciated. Their IT guys will probably invite me in and give me a grilling.
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>Thanks in advance.