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IDOC_Material

Former Member — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 12:27:30 GMT

HI..

Can anyone please tell me the best avaliable resources for learning the IDOCS...write from the basics....?

Thanks.

Nicky.S

Re: IDOC_Material

Former Member — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 12:34:54 GMT

www.sappoint.com

--here u can find the ppts and basic seetings for ALE

http://sappoint.com/presentation.html

www.sapgenie.com

http://www.sapgenie.com/ale/index.htm

and also u can get lots of info from ABAP forum by giving search for ALE or IDOC.

Thanks

Eswar

Re: IDOC_Material

Former Member — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 12:36:09 GMT

Hi,

Give me your mail id, i can send some materials..

Regards

vijay

Re: IDOC_Material

Former Member — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 12:36:28 GMT

ALE/ RDI Idocs by Arvind Nagpal is a very good book for studying the basics of Idoc...Do read it...It will help you understand the concepts

Re: IDOC_Material

Former Member — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 12:39:29 GMT

Hi Meena,

An IDoc is simply a data container that is used to exchange information between any two processes that can understand the syntax and semantics of the data...

1.IDOCs are stored in the database. In the SAP system, IDOCs are stored in database tables.

2.IDOCs are independent of the sending and receiving systems.

3.IDOCs are independent of the direction of data exchange.

The two available process for IDOCs are

Outbound Process

Inbound Process

AND There are basically two types of IDOCs.

Basic IDOCs

Basic IDOC type defines the structure and format of the business document that is to be exchanged between two systems.

Extended IDOCs

Extending the functionality by adding more segments to existing Basic IDOCs.

To Create Idoc we need to follow these steps:

Create Segment ( WE31)

Create Idoc Type ( WE30)

Create Message Type ( WE81)

Assign Idoc Type to Message Type ( WE82)

regards

satesh

Re: IDOC_Material

Former Member — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 12:56:18 GMT

Hello,

IDoc (for intermediate document) is a standard data structure for electronic data interchange (EDI) between application programs written for the popular SAP business system or between an SAP application and an external program. IDocs serve as the vehicle for data transfer in SAP's Application Link Enabling (ALE) system. IDocs are used for asynchronous transactions: each IDoc generated exists as a self-contained text file that can then be transmitted to the requesting workstation without connecting to the central database. Another SAP mechanism, the Business Application Programming Interface (BAPI) is used for synchronous transactions.

You can find more material on

http://thespot4sap.com/Articles/SAP_ALE_IDOCS.asp

and more detailed information here...

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_47x200/helpdata/en/dc/6b7eee43d711d1893e0000e8323c4f/frameset.htm

Regards,

Richa

Re: IDOC_Material

Laxmana_Appana_ — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 13:46:38 GMT

Hi,

Use the transaction WEDI , you can see all IDOC related transactions.

Laxman