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RFC Protocol

The RFC protocol describes how data is passed to the RFC interface and back. basXML is available as a unified format for all types of pass by parameter. To use basXML, you have to specify it in both transaction SM59 and in the transmission protocol for the destination and explicitly when creating an RFM.

If one of these two prerequisites is not met, for example, for communication with systems in earlier releases (where basXML was not yet available), the RFC protocol is selected implicitly depending on the parameter type:

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