SMD (Shared master data tool)

[Former Member]

Hi All,

Can anybody provide any poiners on SMD that is shared master data tool and how to use change pointers along with it to track changes in material master data.

Regrads,

Rahul

[Former Member]

hi,

Shared Master Data is a component which drives the distribution of any changes in the centralally maintained master data. The SMD component writes a change status in tables BDCP and BDCPS. For EG. whenever you change any data with respect to a material, the changes are logged in two tables namely CDHDR and CDPOS. Now there is a program RBDMIDOC which reads these changes and distributes the same. Change document Object are nothing but the component with which the fields are configured,so that any changes on those fields are recorded. You can find them in Tx. SCDO.

For Material Master the change doc. object is. MATERIAL.

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Rgds

[Former Member]

Hi Zapper,

Is this change status writes changes in classification data of material also?

Probably not...what is the way to track these changes also alomg with master data when we are using SMD tool.

Regards,

Rahul

[Former Member]

Address data to be distributed can not only be sent directly, but also by evaluating change pointers. In this case, the sending process is not triggered by the primary object (application object), but executed by the Shared Master Data (SMD) tool of the ALE layer. The SMD tool evaluates the change pointers (in a periodic job, for example) and calls function modules MASTERIDOC_CREATE_SMD_ADRMAS , MASTERIDOC_CREATE_SMD_ADR2MAS and MASTERIDOC_CREATE_SMD_ADR3MAS for the addresses.

To ensure that Business Address Services generate change pointers when modifications are saved, the indicator for writing change pointers must be set for the master data object in table TSADRV . This is necessary for the customer and vendor master, for example. For bank master data, no change pointers are generated for the addresses since bank addresses are always sent directly.

[Former Member]

Hi,

As i`d addresssed u earlier, the change doc. object has to be configured for fields and tables for which you want to record changes.

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Regards