SAP ECC RFC spoke release notes
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Summary of SAP ECC RFC Spoke Release Notes
The SAP ECC RFC Spoke is a ServiceNow IntegrationHub spoke that enables integration with SAP ECC systems through standard SAP BAPIs and RFCs. It facilitates synchronization between ServiceNow and SAP ECC by providing numerous actions for creating, updating, and looking up key SAP objects such as purchase orders, invoices, vendors, sales orders, goods receipts, and more. This integration is designed to streamline business processes and data consistency across platforms.
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Key Enhancements and Features
- Extensive Action Library: The spoke offers a wide range of actions supporting SAP operations, including vendor management, invoice processing, purchase order handling, sales order management, and goods receipt transactions.
- Security Improvements: Multiple releases include security patches such as making sensitive UI labels read-only, adding ACL role checks, and enhancing non-glide ACLs.
- Load Balancing Support: Enhanced and productized SNC load balancing support and load balancing logon group connection aliases for clustering and high availability setups.
- Multi-threading and MID Server Updates: Updated SAP Connector JAR files and introduced common ECC-agent.jar to support multithreading when multiple SAP integrations operate on the same MID Server.
- Expanded Data Fields: Added numerous input and output fields across various actions to support full data synchronization and additional SAP object attributes, such as Swift Code in vendor bank details and tax objects in invoice creation.
- Improved Data Handling: Fixed issues handling complex data structures like arrays inside arrays and long bank account numbers exceeding 16 characters.
- New and Redesigned Actions: Regular introduction of new actions (e.g., enqueue-luw for HR provisioning, transfer order management) and redesign of existing actions to improve functionality and reliability.
Practical Benefits for ServiceNow Customers
- Streamlined SAP Integration: Customers can automate and simplify SAP ECC-related workflows directly from ServiceNow, reducing manual effort and data discrepancies.
- Enhanced Security and Compliance: Built-in security enhancements ensure sensitive SAP data is protected and access is controlled according to best practices.
- Robust and Scalable Architecture: Support for load balancing and multi-threading ensures reliable performance in complex, clustered SAP environments.
- Comprehensive SAP Data Access: Extensive and continuously updated actions allow customers to cover a broad range of SAP ECC use cases, from procurement to finance and HR.
- Improved Integration Stability: Frequent patches and fixes address known issues to provide a stable and consistent integration experience.
Version Information and Support
The release notes document a rich version history from the initial release in September 2020 through multiple updates up to June 2026. Customers should review the latest version details on the ServiceNow Store for system requirements and compatibility. Keeping the spoke updated ensures access to the latest features, security patches, and performance improvements.
Version history for the SAP ECC RFC Spoke on the ServiceNow Store.
Version history
- Version 2.10.0 - June 2026
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- Security patch for non-glide ACLs
- Added Swift Code in Vendor Bank Details field for create/update vendor action
- Version 2.9.4 - April 2026
- Fixed: Updated MID Server JAR file and SapConnector Class to avoid Name, Version, and Filename conflicts
- Version 2.9.3 - March 2026
- Enhanced: Look up Purchase Orders and Purchase Order Lines - Additional Input Fields Added for the action to support Full Pull
- Version 2.9.2 - February 2026
- Fixed: Cancel Invoice action intermittently returns a blank output in the dynamic object field.
- Version 2.9.1 - December 2025
- Security enhancement: Made the UI label of sn_sap_ecc_rfc_spo_sap_rfc_list table read-only
- Version 2.8.0 - August 2025
- Added: Enhanced and productized SNC load balancing
- Version 2.7.2 - March 2025
- Security patch update.
- Version 2.7.1 - January 2025
- Fixed: Added IT_ACCOUNT_GROUP object to Look up vendor action.
- Version 2.7.0 - December 2024
- Added more fields for the Create Vendor and Update Vendor spoke actions.
- Version 2.6.0 - October 2024
- Added more output fields for Create Non-PO Invoice and Create Invoice actions.
- Version 2.5.0 - September 2024
- Incorporated tax object for Create Invoice and Create Non Purchase Order Invoice actions.
- Version 2.4.1 - June 2024
- Fixed: Missing OOB 'report_view' ACLs for platform tables.
- Version 2.4.0 - May 2024
- Added 2 more actions.
- Version 2.3.1 - April 2024
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- Added 5 new actions
- Added SNC connection support
- Version 2.2.0 - February 2024
- Changed: Updated sapConnector.jar and added a common ECC-agent.jar to support multi-threading with other ServiceNow's SAP integration products that reside on the same MID Server.
- Version 2.1.0 - November 2023
- New: Added 6 new actions.
- Version 2.0.4 - September 2023
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- Fixed:
- JCO's RFC / BAPI function returning an array inside an array issue.
- Script includes dependency for PSM app.
- Fixed:
- Version 2.0.2 - July 2023
- Fixed to handle bank account numbers that exceed 16 characters.
- Version 2.0.1 - June 2023
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- Fixed "Look up Operations" action
- Updated to support load balancing environment
- Added ACL role check for actions with sensitive data
- Version 2.0.0 - May 2023
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- Redesigned 5 existing actions
- Added 5 new actions
- Version 1.5.1 - April 2023
- Improved installation performance.
- Version 1.5.0 - December 2022
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- Added the new enqueue-luw action-dequeue Action for HR module user provisioning use case
- Added load balancing logon group connection alias for customer who uses clustering server setup
- Version 1.4.0 - February 2022
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- New: Added 2 new actions
- Create Transfer Order and Line Items
- Look up Transfer Order and Line Items
- New: Added 2 new actions
- Version 1.3.0 - August 2021
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- Execute RFC action now supports tabular structure for create and update operations
- User can now create, look up, and update most of the operations that can be called by BAPIs
- Version 1.2.1 - June 2021
- This is a patch release of SAP ECC RFC Spoke for IntegrationHub. This release includes a fix for additional fields in the payload for Create Goods Receipt Action.
- Version 1.2.0 - May 2021
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- Added new actions:
- Look up Customer Info
- Look up Bill Detail by ID
- Look up Bill Details
- Look up Inventory of Parts
- Create Sales Order
- Update Sales Order
- Look up Sales Orders
- Look up Sales Order
- Look up Payments
- Look up Outstanding Balance
- Create Sales Order and Look up Status
- Added new actions:
- Version 1.0.1 - September 2020
- New: The SAP ECC RFC Spoke provides a list of actions that interact with SAP standard BAPIs. It provides the foundation to synchronize ServiceNow and SAP ECC, such as create PO, update PO, create a journal entry, create invoices, create goods receipts, and so on.