When to use Party in PI configuration?

Hi Experts,
When and how do we use Party in PI configuration? What are the use cases it can be used?
Can we map a business system to a party? As per PI documentation, Party is used for B2B
scenario and for non SLD systems. Therefore only business components should be mapped to
Party. Is this correct?
Thanks
Gopal
Hi Gopal
Yes, Party is mainly used for B2B scenarios as described by the documentation below.
A communication party (party for short) represents a larger unit, which is involved in a collaborative
process. Using a communication party, you generally address a company within a business-to-
business process.
Communication Party - Integration Directory - SAP Library

Usually, Business System is created in SLD for systems within the companies landscape. As such, it
does not make good sense to assign a business system to an external party (although it is
technically possible.) You can however assign a Business System to a party that is created to
represent your company.

Some adapters require the information configured in the Identifiers of Party in order for configuration
to work, i.e. AS2 ID for Seeburger AS2 Adapter, Partner Number for Customer/Vendor based IDoc
partner profile.

Rgds
Eng Swee

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Hi Eng Swee,
I have scenario
System A --->JMS Adpter --> PI --> JDBC --> Multiple receivers (DB_SYS for example)
 Here I need to send data to multiple receivers based on country value in input payload.
If the country is "MY" then send the data to Malaysian DB server, Else if country in "IN" then send
it to indian DB server.
Now this requires changing JDBC connection parameter dynamically at runtime. This is not
supported by receiver JDBC channel. So ruled out.
Next option is create multiple Business systems for each receiver DB server. Then create multiple
receiver JDBC channels for each. Then in receiver determination use the receiver routing rule.
This is complicated as there are many DB servers. We cannot create so many business systems
in SLD.
Therefore can I use "Party" for this?
That is, create multiple parties. PARTY_MY and PARTY_IN, etc.....
Map same generic business system (DB_SYS) to all these parties.
PARTY_MY --> DB_SYS
PARTY_IN --> DB_SYS
Create multiple JDBC channels. Then in receiver determination's routing rule, include
communication party
Condition Communication party Communication component
IF Country = 'MY' PARTY_MY DB_SYS
IF Country = 'IN' PARTY_IN DB_SYS

Thanks
Gopal

Hi Gopal
If your only restriction is creating too many business systems in SLD, you can directly create them
as Business Components (without Party) in Integration Directory. This can still be used to represent
A2A scenario, you really don't need to create Party.
Rgds
Eng Swee

HI,
Check these links:
What is A2A and B2B?
difference between A2A and B2B scenarios.
Regards.

Hi Gopal,
Party is mostly used for B2B scenarios, i.e. when you want to describe in your scenario the business
or company.
"Usually represents a company unit that is to be involved and addressed in message exchange."

You can check link below:

Communication Party - SAP XI: Design and Configuration Time - SAP Library
Configuring B2B Integration - SAP NetWeaver Process Integration - SAP Library

Can we map a business system to a party? As per PI documentation, Party is used for B2B scenario and for non SLD
systems. Therefore only business components should be mapped to Party. Is this correct?

-- Business systems are technical systems which are maintained in our SLD . Business components are external
systems out of our landscape , that's why it is always correct to map them with Party.