IDOC,ALE & BAPI

Former Member — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 21:24:15 GMT

Hi ,

can anyone answer me some questions.

what is the difference between Transaction Data & Master Data.

In BAPI & ALE do we use Transactional data or Master Data

What is the configurational Technique used in ALE , IDOC & BAPI.

what is the difference in BD87 & WE05 transaction.

Please Let me know .

Regards,

Roberts.K

Re: IDOC,ALE & BAPI

Former Member — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 03:57:53 GMT

Master Data - eg. Creating a vendor

Transaction Data - eg. Creating a purchase order

BAPI and ALE can be used for both Master and Transaction Data.

BAPI eg. - BAPI_VENDOR_CREATE

ALE can be used to update Control, Master and Transaction data.

Configuration technique involves many many steps. I suggest you to refer - Arvind Nagpal book on ALE, EDI & IDoc Technologies for SAP

BD87 - allows you to reprocess inbound idocs

Not sure of WE15 - Test Outbound Processing

I assume you are new to this, so suggest you to go through help.sap.com for the related information.

Regards,

Subramanian V.