topic ALE in Application Development and Automation Discussions

ALE

Former Member — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 11:27:01 GMT

Hello,

I have to transfer data from production server to test and development server. To do this i have to use ALE.

The problem is that I have no clue where to start.. ALE seems very complicated. So if anyone has any experience on this and has some online docs or tutorials that would be nice..

Greets

Re: ALE

ferry_lianto — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:19:49 GMT

Hi Bert,

Please check this link on how to distribute material master (MATMAS).

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/78/217da751ce11d189570000e829fbbd/content.htm

Also check this link on how to setup ALE processes (inbound and outbound).

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp2004/helpdata/en/dc/6b835943d711d1893e0000e8323c4f/content.htm

Hope these will help to start with.

Regards,

Ferry Lianto

Re: ALE

Former Member — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:10:15 GMT

Ok it seems nice but maybe I have the wrong idea of ALE.

I have to make a program in wich they can dynamically select data from tables they want to copy. Then they have to select a destination system (DEV or MIG) and thats when I want to use ALE. Is this possible?

Re: ALE

ferry_lianto — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 20:14:00 GMT

Hi,

Why don't you create custom RFC function module to update table in other system instead of using ALE?

Regards,

Ferry Lianto

Re: ALE

Former Member — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 08:10:56 GMT

I don't know what an RFC module is.. My boss told me to use ALE, if its really better to use an RFC module I can always ask him.

Can you tell me what's the difference between them both?

Re: ALE

Former Member — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:01:59 GMT

Hi Bert,

ALE:-

ALE is a method which integrates two sytems to tranfer the data in between. But using a custome developed Program you can control the data which needs to be sent. SAP provides standard reports/transactions to send the master and transactional data using ALE. for example if you want to send material data from one system to another system you have transaction "BD10". using this transaction you can send the materials of your choice from source system to target system. But before that you need to implement ALE between source and target system. In general if you want to send sap master data like material, vendor and transactional data like sales order, purchase order data you have to use ALE. because for all these data has to pick from multiple tables.

RFC:-

Using RFC function modules also we can send and recieve data from one system to another system. But one can go for RFC;s only if the data has to pick from custom tables like Z developments. And also if tables are 1 or 2.

finally my suggestions is go for ALE , performance wise it is the best option to tranfer the data from one system another system. also sap recommends to use ALE.

Thanks & Regards

Vijayanand Poreddy

Re: ALE

Former Member — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:40:34 GMT

Thanks for the answer vijayanand. I am the colleague of bert.

We need some more help.

Here's a brief summary of how the project works:

-> User selects the data he/she wants to transfer

-> The selected data gets picked up from the infotypes and stored in an internal table

-> User selects the system to where he wants to transfer the data ( Development or Test system)

-> The data from the internal table gets copied from production system to the system selected above

Thats pretty much the process behind it. Is it possible to transfer the data from an internal table to another systems infotypes? And should we use ALE to do that?

If so, is there a somewhat decent ALE tutorial so we can try to build up the transfer?