Overview of BAPI stage

In SAP, the Business Application Programming Interfaces (BAPIs) are standardized interfaces to SAP business objects, such as a material or a customer.

For more information about BAPIs, see the SAP documentation. BAPIs are implemented using remote function modules (RFMs) which in turn use the SAP-proprietary Remote Function Call (RFC) protocol.

You can use the BAPI stage to:

Browse and select the BAPI or RFM that you want to call in your job. The list of available interfaces is retrieved directly from the SAP system.
View the BAPI interface with its import, export, and table parameters, and select the parameters to use when executing the BAPI.
Issue multiple BAPI calls within a single job run.

Note: You can use the BAPI Extract stage in both Server and Parallel DataStage jobs.