about interfaces

[Former Member]

hi abapers,

tell about interfaces this is urgent

thanks and reagrds

[Former Member]

Primarily an interface is an interconnection between two systems for some sort of data/information exchange.

Please elaborate your requirements so as to what kind (File/RFC/ALE) interface you are looking at.

[Former Member]

Hi,

Here is the link which explains

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_46c/helpdata/en/22/042427488911d189490000e829fbbd/content.htm

Regards

Sudheer

[Former Member]

Hi Prasanna,

Interface is a facilty given to connect and communicate b/w the systems.

There are two types of interfaces as per me ie

1. BDC Interfaces

2. RFC interfaces.

<b>BDC interfaces</b> are used to upload or download the data from external file to SAP system. To explain this it takes more time.

Using <b>RFC interfaces</b> we send an IDOC from one system to another.

<b>IDOC</b> is data container used across distributed SAP system.

<b>IDOC</b> provides better security than flat files.

I think this is more enough for you if you want more give me reply.

Reward points if this has given some knowledge to you.

Thanks

Satish Raju

TCS

[Former Member]

hi,

interface is used when we are transferring data from /to R/3 from another system.

inbound interfaces, usually the different types of interfaces are Invoices , Material master update (in case of legacy system). You will need to process the inbound file and then use either a BAPI (SAP Provide Business interfaces) or BDC (in very rare cases when BAPIs are not available) to post the document to SAP.

outbound interfaces, usually there will a report program which will read the appropriate tables or BAPIs if available and write to output file in desired format.

check the below links too may be helpful for you

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

http://www.sapgenie.com/sapgenie/docs/ale_scenario_development_procedure.doc

/people/kevin.wilson2/blog/2006/11/13/ale-scenario-development-guide

http://searchsap.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid21_gci1230385,00.html

Reward useful points

SIva

[abdul_hakim]

Hi,

Interfaces are generally used to exchange data between different system or used for

communication between different systems..

Eg of interfaces:

BDC,

LSMW,

FILE INTERFACE,

ALE,

XI,

BAPI,

FUNCTION MODULES,

STANDARD SELECTION SCREEN,

ABAP OBJECTS INTERFACES

Cheers,

Hakim

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