Conversions

[Former Member]

Hi All,

Can anybody give what type of problems, advantages and disadvantages we may face during the following methods:

1) Direct Input

2) Call Transaction

3) Session

4) Recording

Helpful answers will be rewarded.

Thanks and Regards

[Former Member]

Hi,

Now we are not using direct input method because it is 5 times faster than call transaction method and it won't satisfy relational integrity.

call transaction is very useful but we have to handle the errors explicitly.

sessions method won't upgrade the data base if session is not processed.

recording is useful for every time.

so if the records are more then we have to use call transaction then error records should be captured then processed using session's method. In call transaction you can use synchronous and also asynchronous methods.

Thanks

Sarada

[Former Member]

SAP provides lots of direct input programs in the system. You can make use of direct input from ABAP or LSMW.

You can even perform checking using the Direct Input program from LSMW with the job created from this tcode: BMV0 : Manage Direct Input Transfer.

Recording with BDC is good, but problems comes when you hit with ALV screen then you will have troubles. BDc is pretty much good for old screens up to 4.6C.. as at ECC6...

i have switched them to either BAPI, standard FM, LSMW or Direct Input for better performance n runtime.

Call transaction is slow i reckon, not as fast as direct input method.

See which installation you are in and which transactions you are dealing with, and also the requirements of the jobs.

Hope this helps..

Reward is useful.

Thanks

Andrew