Idoc serialization by Time Stamp

[Former Member]

Hi,

I have a need to use Idoc serialization by Date and Time, but from what I noticed the existing program 'RBDAPP01' will automatically turn on serialization by date and time stamp once the field EDIDC-SERIALIZATION is used.My understanding on serialization by Date and Time is as follows:

Once the Serialization object is defined for a unique key (By defining Serialization in 'BD95' and 'BD57'), the function 'IDOC_SERIALIZATION_CHECK' is called in inbound function module for the idoc to see if there is already a record processed for the same key (via table BDSER), and if it is then any Idoc with a time stamp less than the one in BDSER comes for processing it gets an error.

Now my questions is what is the purpose of defining the configuration for Serialization by going to 'BD95' and 'BD57' when RBDAPP01 is already doing the same?

Also please correct me if I there is any flaw in my understanding.

Thanks in advance.

[Former Member]

Hi,

I have a need to use Idoc serialization by Date and Time, but from what I noticed the existing program 'RBDAPP01' will automatically turn on serialization by date and time stamp once the field EDIDC-SERIALIZATION is used.My understanding on serialization by Date and Time is as follows:

Once the Serialization object is defined for a unique key (By defining Serialization in 'BD95' and 'BD57'), the function 'IDOC_SERIALIZATION_CHECK' is called in inbound function module for the idoc to see if there is already a record processed for the same key (via table BDSER), and if it is then any Idoc with a time stamp less than the one in BDSER comes for processing it gets an error.

Now my questions is what is the purpose of defining the configuration for Serialization by going to 'BD95' and 'BD57' when RBDAPP01 is already doing the same?

Also please correct me if I there is any flaw in my understanding.

Thanks in advance.

[gokul_radhakrishnan3]

Hi,

Based on what I understood from some SAP documentations (I am not 100% sure though), RBDAPP01 talks about IDoc serialization & the other transactions talks about ALE Serialization. Both are different as I understood from SAP documentation. And ALE serialization is used when you try to send a set of data. LIke material master, classification data. And you can link/serialize these different message types to make sure first material master idoc is processed & after that classificaiton idoc. And IDoc serialization is used to make sure the idocs (same message type) are processed in the same order by using field EDIDC-SERIAL. Something like date/time stamp can be used for this.

Regards,

Gokul

[former_member737318]

Hi,

Have you implemented IDOC serialization using timestamp in target ECC. Can you please help me with the steps and details, how you did that.

Thanks in advance

Chandan