topic Re: Trace visibility for SAP JVM calling ABAP backends in Open Q&A

Trace visibility for SAP JVM calling ABAP backends

kalle_lahtinen — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 12:30:59 GMT

We have instrumented a SAP JVM, which calls ABAP backend systems via RFC calls. We'd of course like to have visibility to these calls, but is that even possible since the protocol switches to RFC? Even if the calling process is Java, which is supported. I've tried creating custom services based on classes starting with "com.sap.aii.adapter.rfc", but this is all very experimental so far, and I haven't figured which (if any) of the methods are calling ABAP servers. Without knowing what each method really does, it's a bit of a guessing game.

Has anyone investigated something like this, do you think it's even doable with OneAgent?

Re: Trace visibility for SAP JVM calling ABAP backends

sbangs — Wed, 01 May 2024 19:03:35 GMT

This is a planned feature with the PowerConnect/Dynatrace integration (https://www.dynatrace.com/news/blog/dynatrace-and-powerconnect-join-forces-for-unified-observability-of-sap-environments/?_ga=2.175345825.2095189042.1714589292-579549329.1691071987). SAP natively passes a common identifier between SAP ABAP and SAP Java applications, which allows this correlation to occur.

Re: Trace visibility for SAP JVM calling ABAP backends

y_buccellato — Thu, 02 May 2024 09:01:33 GMT

Yes!

Re: Trace visibility for SAP JVM calling ABAP backends

grepei — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 13:38:55 GMT

Dear All,

Can you share a screenshot how the Distributed Tracing looks like from a SAP server (eg.: Java based)?

I am interested in Java to ABAP calls...

Thx,

Gabor