Transferring Master Data through ALE

[Former Member]

Hello,

i want to create a master data distribution via ALE. But there is a problem: master data like gl accounts, vendors, debtors, cost center, profit center etc. shall be created in one reference company code / controlling area on a development system. from there the data shall be distributed into the receiving company code / controlling area on the same client. afterwards (after developer tests) it should be distributed to quality and later on production system as well as other erp systems.

the second step is of course possible via ALE. but is the first step also possible with that? Or do i have to do this with own reports or something like that.

if there is created a new company code the data shall easily be distributed into it from the reference cc.

thanks in advance for your help.

[Former Member]

Yes, you can distribute master data via ALE. This can be done automatically via change pointers.

To be honest, i don t understand your question very well, what is the exact purpose of step 1, how do you want to send data, manually or automatically. And what is your exact concern?

[Former Member]

Hello,

the problem is to distribute the data inside one client from one reference company code / controlling area to all the others.

thereafter the data is to be distributed to other systems automatically or manually if it is urgent. this part is hopefully pretty easy to set up.

[Former Member]

You can use ALE to send data inside the same client,

but i guess you need some custom code for converting the company codes.

Guess you need to change the inbound or the outbound function module used for processing your idocs.

[Former Member]

Hello,

can you explain this to me a bit more because i'm not very familiar with ALE.

thanks a lot.

[Former Member]

In your distribution model (which determines which system will send what kind of data to what system) you can state that your receiving system is the same as your sending system. i.e. data will be send to the same client.

Only problem:

the idoc will send exactly the same data, so you need to replace the company code with the target company code.

This means that you need to change the abap code that is used to send idocs (outbound) or to process inbound idocs and addd a new mapping to it.

[Former Member]

hi,

i would first thank you for all the help you are rendereing.

we are doing a direct load untill now using LSMW.

a new idea comes in about loading with ALE.

i am new to this process, so i am searching for some material to learn.

please do send me anything that could help me.

thank you.