How to Execute SAP RFC using SOAP?

I have a requirement where I need to run an RFC from an ETL (Datastage) job. It can be done by executing a unix command also, of course (the Datastage server is unix). I don't think they have the SAP plug-in for Datastage, though.

I've tried and succeeded using the startrfc command fired as a unix script, but the client's preferred solution would be using SOAP - whih I don't know much about, but I do have the URL for the RFC. Now, only if I knew how to use it...

Any ideas? Experiences? Tutorials? I'm grasping at straws at this point. This is quite, quite different from stuff I'm used to.

Any and 开发者_Go百科all help much appreciated!

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Like Ben said, You should ask the SAP responsible for an SOAP endpoint in their system. If you or the SAP staff are looking for an explanation how to expose a RFC as Web Service, there are a lot of articles about it on the SAP Developer Network. E.g. this one: http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/f02b33fc-9eb1-2c10-0599-f2ef9fb5c5b6?QuickLink=index&overridelayout=true

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If you have a URL pointing to the RFC it sounds like they may have exposed it as a web service. If this is the case you can just tack a ?wsdl on the end of the URL and use the WSDL to generate a web service proxy on the DataStage side.