Don’t you hate it when you’re talking on the cell phone and the call drops?   I was talking to my wife on the way to my client site this week and was telling her about this awesome blog post I was writing when the call dropped.  Bummer.  Since I really wanted to tell her about my blog, I wanted to complete the conversation.  But first, I had to wait for service.  Then I had to call her back, and have her answer.  Then I uttered the phrase that all cell phone users know, “What was the last thing you heard me say?”  It was a fairly messy recovery, but I was finally able to talk about my blog!

When two software systems integrate, we also have to deal with the “dropped call” problem.  SAP NCo 3.0 offers a few different levels of  data recovery options depending on whether NCo is the client or the server.  But before any data recovery can happen, the first step is to call the other party back.  This blog post describes the general process to reconnect an NCo RfcServer to an SAP gateway host.

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