Weblog entry #16 for ajt

I've been on a SAP PI Mapping course this week. It's not been the best experience, because Feltham station isn't reachable because of major problem with a railway bridge caused by the recent weather - and I suppose decades of poor maintainance. That's not SAP's fault but it doesn't make for happy bunnies...

The course has been quite interesting. We have been using the PI tool for about 12 months now to map XML files to plain text files (on the whole). Every interface we map does seem painful & awkward and we had just assumed it was our lack of experience with the tool. Having been on the mapping course, I now think that it's just a dificult task to do and it's not us afterall.

It's not managment friendly but it would be a damn site faster and more reliable to do all the mapping in Perl...