Welcome
Reference Guide
This guide describes conceptual information about data design environment components when you want to use the data fabrication feature in HCL OneTest™ Server.
Connections
A connection defines the properties that are required to connect to an external resource. An action uses a connection to provide source data to a project or write data from a source to a target. Multiple actions can use the same connection. You can define both connections and actions at the project level.
Resource adapters
HCL OneTest™ Data resource adapters are used to retrieve data. These resource adapters provide access to the databases.
SAP applications
This topic provides an information about integration of SAP applications with HCL OneTest™ Data.
Intermediate Documents (IDocs)
Overview of IDocs

Release Notes
This document includes information about What’s new, installation and upgrade instructions, known issues, and contact information of HCL Customer Support.
System Requirements
This document includes information about hardware and software requirements for HCL OneTest™ Server.
Getting Started Guide
This guide provides an overview and describes the task flows to get you started with HCL OneTest™ Server. This guide is intended for new users.
Administrator Guide
This guide describes how to install HCL OneTest™ Server software. After you install the software, you can perform administration tasks such as license configuration, user management, security, memory, and disk usage management, back up and restore user data. This guide is intended for administrators.
Test Author Guide
This guide describes how to create test assets in HCL OneTest™ Server and publish test assets to the Git repository that you have configured. This guide is intended for testers and test managers.
Test Execution Specialist Guide
This guide describes tasks that you must complete before you can configure and run tests in HCL OneTest™ Server. You can find information about other tasks that you can perform on the Resource Monitoring Service, Virtualization, and Integrations with third-party applications. This guide is intended for testers or test execution specialists.
Test Manager Guide
This guide describes how to manage and track your overall test effort. This guide is intended for test managers.
Reference Guide
This guide describes conceptual information about data design environment components when you want to use the data fabrication feature in HCL OneTest™ Server.
- Files
  You add a file to a project to use it as input in the project. You can upload a file from your local file system to a project from the Files tab to generate test data. Alternatively, you can upload it when you define an action.
- Connections
  A connection defines the properties that are required to connect to an external resource. An action uses a connection to provide source data to a project or write data from a source to a target. Multiple actions can use the same connection. You can define both connections and actions at the project level.
  - Project-level connections
    You can reuse project-level artifacts in multiple projects. You use the Connections tab to define a new project-level connection and its actions or to select an existing project-level connection and its actions.
  - Connection testing
    You can test project-level connections. When the Design Server has access to an external resource, testing validates the properties of the resource connection. If the Design Server can not access the external resource, the connection test fails, even if the connection properties are correct.
  - Resource adapters
    HCL OneTest™ Data resource adapters are used to retrieve data. These resource adapters provide access to the databases.
    - SAP applications
      This topic provides an information about integration of SAP applications with HCL OneTest™ Data.
      - Introduction
        The Systems Applications and Products in Data Processing (SAP) applications acts as resource adapters. HCL OneTest™ Data integrates with the SAP application to generate a schema, and then generate the test data to perform application testing.
      - The R/3 adapters
        The SAP specific components for the SAP R/3 runtime environment are the R/3 adapters for Windows™ based and UNIX™ based platforms.
      - Intermediate Documents (IDocs)
        Overview of IDocs
        IDoc structural format
        Data Transfer Objects (DXOB)
      - Business Application Programming Interface (BAPI)
        The BAPI adapter (JBAPI) enables full Unicode support when installed with the latest version of ITX. The JBAPI adapter provides unified access to both Unicode and non-Unicode systems.
- Schema design
  A schema is a graphical data dictionary that contains metadata definitions of the structure of a document to generate test data. Schema provides visual cues for understanding the structure and complete definition of an object.
Troubleshooting Guide
This guide describes how to analyze and resolve some of the common problems that you might encounter while you work with HCL OneTest™ Server.
All Guides (PDF)
You can find the link to view or download the content of the release notes, system requirements, and persona guides of HCL OneTest™ Server as a PDF file.
Security Considerations
This document describes the actions that you can take to ensure that your installation is secure, customize your security settings, and set up user access controls.
Notices
This document provides information about copyright, trademarks, terms and conditions for the product documentation.

Overview of IDocs

Several hundred IDocs are shipped with each SAP R/3 system. ALE and EDI interfaces use functionally equivalent IDocs; however, they differ in the manner in which the IDocs are communicated to or from SAP R/3.

ALE IDocs are communicated through memory buffers, without intermediate files, directly to or from an RFC port using transactional remote function calls (RFCs).
EDI IDocs are passed using an intermediate file.

These interfaces (ALE and EDI) that use the IDoc structure represent SAP's strategic approach to interfacing SAP R/3 with legacy and third-party applications where loose coupling is appropriate. Therefore, the SAP R/3 IDoc approach should be considered the first choice for developing interfaces where asynchronous, near-real time, or batch links are required. This pack supports SAP-supplied IDocs as well as user-defined IDocs.

One or more IDocs are held in a container called a packet. A packet is the largest data container in an IDoc schema. The restart attribute is automatically added to reject invalid IDocs contained within a packet.