Program RBDSEMAT

[Former Member]

Hi guru's,

When I run this program with certain selection criteria, I get for example 4 idocs with one material in it. But is there a parameter which could be set so that 1 idoc with 4 materials are send?

Hope someone can help me on this.

Best regards,

Guido Koopmann

[uwe_schieferstein]

Hello Guido

Technically it should be possible because the MATMAS04 documentation (WE60) allows up to 9999 E1MARAM (= Material) segments. Unfortunately I do not know where this collection process can be switched on.

Regards

Uwe

[Former Member]

Thanks for your reply.

I know that is technically possible when looking at the IDOC itself But can not find any option in the program which leads me to the solution to create 4 materials in 1 idoc instead of 4 seperate idocs with 1 material.

[uwe_schieferstein]

Hello Guido

That is what I found in the book "ALE, EDI, & IDoc Technologies for SAP, 2nd Edition":

Control the packet size. The packet size for a message depends on the number of IDocs and the

number of data records in each IDoc. You cannot control the number of data records in an IDoc, but

you can control the number of IDocs in a packet. The latter, of course, will be small if the number of

data records per IDoc is large. The packet size is specified in the partner profile's outbound record in

the Pack Size field.

Well, this is an old book and perhaps newer SAP releases offer this option.

Regards

Uwe

[Former Member]

At this point it's not possible to send out 1 IDOC with multiple materials with RBDSEMAT, so we are going to write a Z-version of it.