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change pointers

Former Member — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 07:29:54 GMT

Hi,

What is the funda behind change pointer/.....how does it work?

what all do i need to make it work....when should it be used and not used?

thnx in advance

Re: change pointers

Former Member — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 07:32:35 GMT

Please have a look at belwo link. It answers ur questions.

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

I hope it helps.

Best Regards,

Vibha

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Re: change pointers

Former Member — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 07:32:52 GMT

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

check this link

regards,

pankaj singh

Re: change pointers

Former Member — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 07:37:47 GMT

Hi,

what ever changes we have done in sap was tracked by two tables cdhdr and cdpos this table holds all the details of the data that are changed by us.including

tcode,and all the tables. suppose if change one field in materialmaster then

both cdhdr and cdpos table will contain where it is updated,check it once it is very interesting and to track this first for that field at the domain level change pointers checkbox needs to checked for example check for matnr for this check box of

change pointers will be checked.

Thanks,

Sarala.

Re: change pointers

Former Member — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 07:53:10 GMT

consider this example, u r changing the material description for a material which is alreading existing using MM02. These changes are stored in the change documents. Change pointers in turn keep track of the changes. As per ur start condition specified in the job description(Background) that job will be automatically started and the material is transferred to the other system as per ur configuration.

First of all clear with the definition of the change pointers.

change pointers techinque is based on the change document technique which keep track of the changes made in the key documents in the sap.

Regards....

Arun

Re: change pointers

Former Member — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 07:57:50 GMT

hi,

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.

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

sri

Re: change pointers

Former Member — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 09:23:45 GMT

thnx for the reply....but how does it automatically get to know that theres a change in the documents.....

how do we actually implement change pointers....

thnx in advance.....