Hi,
There are some standard function modules for removing segments, but I'm not sure if you'll find a useful one among them (since the ones I know usually rely on corresponding configuration). In general you could possibly avoid any coding by applying an appropriate IDoc segment filter (I suspect you're talking about inbound IDocs). Assuming that you're not having tons of different senders you could define a segment filter via transaction BD56. Here you'll have to maintain sender and recipient information and the segment (E1EDL24) that you want to filter. SAP applies upon receipt of the IDoc all ALE services, among them the segment filter you defined via BD56. As a result the IDoc stored on the database will not have the segment defined in BD56 and none of the corresponding child segments.
You can see that the filter was applied by looking at the status text for status 64, which should look something like this: Data filtered , No conversion , No version change . (Might look different for you, if you have other ALE services that run.)
So the advantage of this solution would mean that there's no requirement for coding, disadvantage is the configuration effort and possibly complaints about missing data (i.e. sometimes its better to manipulate the data structures in memory before processing instead of messing with the IDoc contents on database). However, if you truly don't need the information, this might be what you're looking for.
If you still want to code, you could grab a customer exit that provides the table with all IDoc data segments and then delete E1EDL24 and all its children (a more generic coding should find the child segments via the IDoc hierarchy information in PSGNUM.
Cheers, harald
Bluesky
