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change pointers

Former Member — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 04:03:00 GMT

what are change pointers and table bcdp

Re: change pointers

Former Member — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 04:09:42 GMT

Hi,

Change Pointers in simple terminolgy, For example you are sending 100 materials from system A to system B (say matnr - 1 - 100 ), and in system B already some materials with the same Matnr exists, so you get error when you transfer these materials, saying the material already exists, to avoid these kind of errors, we use Change Pointer concept wherein we update the Materials with the same Matnr, the table BCDP is used to record the changes.

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Santosh.

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Re: change pointers

Former Member — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 04:09:50 GMT

Change pointers are the mechanism through which you can send data to external system if there is a change happening to specific fields of master data.

BDCP is the table in which the change pointers are stored.

For more info

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/12/83e03c19758e71e10000000a114084/content.htm

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Ravi

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Re: change pointers

Former Member — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 05:03:20 GMT

I presume, you are acquainted with the concept of change doucments...

Change pointers can be reffered in similar way, tables related to the same are: BDCP, BDCP2, BDCPS.

Acessing change documents from tables CDHDR and CDPOS can be time taking where using change pointers we can quickly refer/access the same by maintaining/archiving the processes change pointers regularly.

Hope this info gives you some idea.

Kind Regards

Eswar

Re: change pointers

Former Member — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 07:43:56 GMT

Hi Aman,

Change pointers are used to keep track the changes made to the key documents of SAP.

For example vendor master or customer master details will change sometime in business ( not full information only some info like address or code ) at that time no need to transfer whole data instead of tht we can transfer only those info which got changed. at this time we come across or go for Change pointers. CDHDR table is used to info of change pointes

If this info helps u plz reward points

Regards

Kali Pramod

Re: change pointers

Former Member — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 15:01:05 GMT

i have requirement on ALE delta.

could you please send me the sequence of steps need to create ALE delta.

Thanks

Madhu