DataPower as a Web Service Debugger

I am really starting to appreciate the WebSphere DataPower appliance. In addition to its stellar performance as an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and strong security features, it can also be a useful tool in debugging SOA applications and web services. You can set up "probes" which allow you to monitor web service requests and replies that pass thru the device.  There is a user interface that allows you to visually inspect the message contents.  its like having a web service debugger.

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Does anybody know what data SAP Enterprise Services actually expose?

Anybody know where I could get the mapping of SAP database table & field names to data elements in the WSDL of a standard SAP Enterprise Service? It seems our SAP technical consultant is unable to determine this without manually opening up the ABAP code that comes with SAP. The element names in the Enterprise Service are long English names which are quite different from the German acronym-like names of the standard SAP databases that all the SAP functional consultants are familiar with. It seems very painful to figure out what data is actually being exposed by the Enterprise Service.

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The postings on this site are my own and don't necessarily represent IBM's positions, strategies, or opinions.