Set up SAP ECC Public Preview

This guide explains how to create a dedicated service user in SAP ECC and grant the necessary permissions for Atlan to extract metadata.

How Atlan connects to SAP ECC

Before setting up user accounts, understand how Atlan connects to SAP ECC to securely extract metadata from your SAP system.

Prerequisites

Before you begin, make sure you have:

• Administrative access to SAP ECC.
• Secure Agent deployed that meets the system requirements.
• SAP system details, including:
  • Host
  • System number
  • Client number

Create communication user for metadata extraction

1. In the SAP GUI command field, enter SU01 and press Enter to open User Maintenance.
2. In the User field, enter a name for the new service user and click Create.
3. On the Address tab, provide the required contact information.
4. Open the Logon Data tab and:
   • Set an initial password (enter it twice).
   • Set User Type to C (Communications Data).
5. Switch to the Roles tab and assign roles that enable:
   • Remote function call (RFC) execution
   • Table-level read access for metadata tables
   • Access to system-level information
6. Verify that the assigned roles enable execution of these RFC modules:
   • STFC_CONNECTION: Verifies connectivity between Atlan and SAP ECC.
   • RFC_SYSTEM_INFO: Retrieves system metadata such as SYSID, operating system, and release version.
   • RFC_READ_TABLE: Enables table-level reads for metadata extraction.
7. Click Save to confirm the changes.

note

The user must change the password on first login.

Next steps

• Crawl SAP ECC: Follow the instructions to extract metadata from SAP ECC using the configured service user.