topic Re: Data creation in Application Development and Automation Discussions

Data creation

Former Member — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 06:20:32 GMT

T o UPLOAD / DOWNLOAD data in the application/presentation server we need to create data . How is data created & what do we mean by data creation?

Re: Data creation

Former Member — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 06:29:59 GMT

Hi,

Generally such data is uploaded / downloaded into the Application/Presentation server, which would be coming in from an outside 3rd party system or the data that is manupulated in the SAP System.

So if the data is coming from an outside 3rd party system, the data would be either provided in the form of a tab delimeted text file or a CSV file or an excel sheet or an IDOC. We need to deal all those formats seperately.

Data gets created either on the R/3 system or on the 3rd party system. If it is on the R/3 System, it might be created as a resultant of a transaction or through triggering of a business process. If it is done on any 3rd party system then you shall not have control of that.

Reward points if this info helps,

Kiran

Re: Data creation

Former Member — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 06:35:23 GMT

Hi...

Data is nothing but the database table records in SAP....

U must be aware of various modules in SAP like MM / FI...

so if ur data is relating to Purchase Order(PO).... Two ways of ceating it..... by functionally executing ME21n TCODE...which is done by functional guys...

But suppose ur migrating from legacy to SAP system....and ur legacy system has arround thousands of PO's....

Then doing this manually by ME21n is not possible...

So we abaper's will have to write BDC or LSMW to Upload these records into SAP.

So the DATA will be those PO information mapped into fields in SAP database which will be updated once u execute ur program....

The text/excel data file can be on desktop/application server..which ur program will upload to SAP tables..