transaction for using change pointer technique in ALE -IDOCS

[Former Member]

Hi,

please let me know the following points.

1: while using change pointer technique , any change in the sale order(any field ) will trigger IDOC or only specific field change. Or do we have to specify field on which we want to trigger IDOC?

2:When IDOC gets genrated from change pointer , does it contain complete sales order or only change fields?

3:Do we have Native format of IDOC in 4.6c ?? XML format??

Please reply soon.

[Former Member]

Hi,

please let me know the following points.

1: while using change pointer technique , any change in the sale order(any field ) will trigger IDOC or only specific field change. Or do we have to specify field on which we want to trigger IDOC?

2:When IDOC gets genrated from change pointer , does it contain complete sales order or only change fields?

3:Do we have Native format of IDOC in 4.6c ?? XML format??

Please reply soon.

[shivhare]

Hi,

in change pointer program you can also define the number of fields which you want to apply change pointer scenario like in sales order IDOC you can apply only change pointer in sales prices filed then when any change occur in sales prices filed then it will generate sales order IDOC

Thanks

Amit

[Former Member]

Thanks amit!!

but i would like the transaction name where we can added our fields for change pointer.

does IDOC which get generated contains complete SO or only changes.

[shivhare]

Hi,

go to SPRO-SAP NetWeaverApplication Server IDoc Interface / Application Link Enabling (ALE)-Modelling and Implementing Business ProcessesReplication of Modified Data- hare u have seen

Activate Change Pointers - Generally

Activate Change Pointers for Message Types

Reduce Change Pointers for Message Type

Switch Change Pointer Storage

etc and help also

Thanks

Amit

[Former Member]

Hi,

Are u looking for these tcodes.

BD61 - Activate Change pointers(global)

BD50- Activate change pointers for message type

Then tables for which change pointers to be set.Here tables are stored as object.

also check BD59.

Rhea.

[Former Member]

Hi,

For the changes to be carried over by change pointers, the steps followed are,

If it's gonna be the vendor master for which change pointers needs to be activated,

- goto SALE transaction ->Modelling and Implementing business processes ->Replication of Modified data -> Activate Change pointers - generally / for message types.... or as said in the earlier post, alternatively BD61/BD50.

- Schedule a background job for program RBDMDIOC providing the message type(CREMAS) for which the change pointers needs to be processed.

- Now for any changes made to the vendor via transaction XK02, automatically CREMAS IDocs would get generated with the IDoc carrying the changed fields in it. You would also be able to find the number master and communication IDocs generated from the joblog of the scheduled RBDMIDOC background job.

~ Bineah.

[Former Member]

Thanks amit!!

but i would like the transaction name where we can added our fields for change pointer.

does IDOC which get generated contains complete SO or only changes.

[Former Member]

Hi,

Tcode to view the fields that are related the message/IDOC type which are set for change pointers is BD52.

When the changes are done the change pointers will transfer only the changed informtion to other system.

Regards

Eswar

[Former Member]

Hi Mayank,

Change Pointers concept is usually used for Master Data and not for Transaction data, if you wanted to trigger the IDOC for a change in the Sales Order then you can do it, you need not activate the change pointers and neither you need to think of that at all.

If you want to intimate when ever a change has been made in your sales order to your customer, then you can configure the IDOC Message ORDRSP and check the change indicator in the Partner Profile and it will send the idoc to your customer when ever the order is changed.

Thanks,

Mahesh.

[Former Member]

Hi,

As per my knowledge concern we do not configure the change pointer for transactional data. If i am wrong then please correct me.........

1. For ORDER message type generally we are going for message control set up. If we are changing any order's field and we want to generate the idoc for the same then we need to set up the message control for ORDCHG message also along with ORDERS message type.

2. Idocs generated by using above method i.e in ORDCHG message type all the fields will be there. If you are going for change pointer for master data, idoc generated by this method will have only change fields.

[Former Member]

Hi,

Answering to your question

Do we have Native format of IDOC in 4.6c ?? XML format??

IDoc can be converted into XML Format.

for which you would have to make change in the configuration of the port, select XML File, Physical directory and provide the function module, all the remaining steps are the similar to the ones that we normally do.To access the application server, select transaction AL11 provide your directory name and select your file name and download it, it would appear in XML format.

~Krithika