Problem: Other windows services on the same windows machine needs to be started to start up ET-Connector properly, i.e. – ORACLE Databases for database access – SAP System Solution: From Windows 2008 on there are additional options to delay the start of ET-Connector: 1) Set the startup type of the service to Automatic start (Delayed) [...]

This article summarizes technical background information on the integrated database at recovery from ET-Connector release 7.0.8391 on. The internal database of ET-Connector is based on Apache DB (Derby) (http://db.apache.org/derby/), which is a JDBC thin driver based SQL-92 database fully written in Java. As nearly every database also Apache Derby can reach a corrupted state due [...]

Upgrade by full installation Shutdown all instances of ET-Connector, close tray Rename installation directory to *_old (or whatever) Run the appriopriate setup package and install to the former install directory to keep spool directories/shares Move the following files from *_old to the new install directory config/server_config.xml spool/* storage* Upgrade manually Install ET-Connector 7 to another  [...]

Problem: Extension ‘SAP JCo’ disabled : Error getting the version of the native layer: java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: <InstallDir>\ET-Connector\prod\modules\ext\sapjco3.dll: The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect. Solution: The currently installed Visual C++ runtime libraries are deprecated on this system for use with the SAP library files. Install the corresponding vcredist*.exe file form <InstallDir>/modules/ext [...]

Problem: ORACLE or DB2 driver reports an error, when database client service is configured for an “Action after read”, that requires an updatable resultset: ORACLE: Error on connecting to database : Database read error: Unable to update on query result for command ‘SELECT * FROM ORDRSP_HEADER WHERE USER_LAST_MODIFIED IS NULL’, result-set is read-only, maybe the [...]

Problem: ET-Connector <= Version 6 cannot read a ZIP file and fails with an error like this: Exception on decoding: invalid entry size (expected 4294967295 but got 2190140 bytes) Solution: The ZIP file may be created by the new Zip64 specification, which is not supported on Java 6 platforms -> affects all ET-Connector versions until [...]

Problem: Connections to FTP servers from ET-Connector running on Windows 7, Vista or Windows 2008 Server are closed directly after the PASV command has been sent: FINE: 01.11.2012 15:21:03.788 : [ Service FTP - NewFTP ] Current directory is /test FINE: 01.11.2012 15:21:03.788 : [ Service FTP - NewFTP ] Send command: TYPE A FINE: [...]

Problem: ET-Connector HTTP service has errors on SSL connections like this: Could not generate DH keypair: Could not generate DH keypair: unknown curve name: 1.2.840.10045.3.1.7 Solution: 1) Update the bouncycastle libraries (bc*.jar) in the bin directory to version 1.44. The corresponding files are out of date. 2) Check in spite for ET-Connector 7 as client: [...]

Problem: The launcher application needs to be updated, due to bugs or to warning messages. Server is started by launcher version 2.4, expected launcher version 3.0, please update manually Solution: The launcher application is the supervising process to start and control the lifetime of ET-Connector application. This application is also responsible for updating downloaded files, [...]

Issue: The directories and files containing umlauts (or special characters) will not be read on Linux. Solution: Check the key Area – Country under System->System Info. To reset the value to Germany you have to adapt the following line in the file launcher.ini: launcher.java.additional.x=-Duser.country=de Check the environment variable $LANG to determine which character set is used [...]