What is ALE

[Former Member]

Hi All,

Can any one give me the defnition of ALE.

Thanks,

Allan...

[Former Member]

ALE is Application Link Enabling (ALE)

It is the set of tools, programs, and data definitions that provides the mechanism for distributing SAP functionality and data across multiple systems. ALE enables the construction and operation of distributed applications.

Its purpose was to overcome the limitations of a single SAP system. A single SAP system that runs on top of one database often does not fulfill the needs of larger corporations, either from a business or a technical perspective.ALE allows the implementation of loosely coupled SAP systems; each of the SAP systems has its own database and is essentially independent from the other systems. ALE allows us to distribute data between different systems and different business processes.

Reward if helpfull....

Thanks,

Sathish Raj.

[Former Member]

Hi Allan,

what is ALE?

ALE means application linking and enabling

Application Link Enabling is the technical basis for integrating business processes in a distributed system environment. It includes developer and testing tools and preconfigured ALE Business Processes delivered in the standard R/3 Release. ALE has functions for managing messaging and for handling communication and application errors.

Some Helpful Links

ALE/ IDOC

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp2004/helpdata/en/dc/6b835943d711d1893e0000e8323c4f/content.htm

http://www.sapgenie.com/sapgenie/docs/ale_scenario_development_procedure.doc

http://edocs.bea.com/elink/adapter/r3/userhtm/ale.htm#1008419

http://www.netweaverguru.com/EDI/HTML/IDocBook.htm

http://www.sapgenie.com/sapedi/index.htm

http://www.sappoint.com/abap/ale.pdf

http://www.sappoint.com/abap/ale2.pdf

http://www.sapgenie.com/sapedi/idoc_abap.htm

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp2005/helpdata/en/0b/2a60bb507d11d18ee90000e8366fc2/frameset.htm

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp2005/helpdata/en/78/217da751ce11d189570000e829fbbd/frameset.htm

http://www.allsaplinks.com/idoc_sample.html

http://www.sappoint.com/abap.html

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp2004/helpdata/en/dc/6b835943d711d1893e0000e8323c4f/content.htm

http://www.sapgenie.com/sapgenie/docs/ale_scenario_development_procedure.doc

http://edocs.bea.com/elink/adapter/r3/userhtm/ale.htm#1008419

http://www.netweaverguru.com/EDI/HTML/IDocBook.htm

http://www.sapgenie.com/sapedi/index.htm

http://www.allsaplinks.com/idoc_sample.html

ALE/ IDOC/ XML

http://www.sapgenie.com/sapgenie/docs/ale_scenario_development_procedure.doc

http://www.thespot4sap.com/Articles/SAP_XML_Business_Integration.asp

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_srm30/helpdata/en/72/0fe1385bed2815e10000000a114084/content.htm

IDOC Convertion

/people/kevin.wilson2/blog/2005/12/07/changing-fields-in-an-idoc-segment

http://www.sappoint.com/abap/ale.pdf

http://www.sappoint.com/abap/ale2.pdf

http://www.sapgenie.com/ale/configuration.htm

http://www.sappoint.com/abap/ale.pdf

http://www.sappoint.com/abap/ale2.pdf

http://www.sapdevelopment.co.uk/training

http://www.sapgenie.com/ale/why_ale.htm

http://www.sapdevelopment.co.uk/training

http://www.sapgenie.com/sapgenie/docs/ale_scenario_development_procedure.doc

<b>Regards,

Jackie.</b>

[Former Member]

With the advent of ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), it

is important to realise that when ERP solutions such as

SAP are implemented, companies have to interface the ERP

system with legacy systems, other ERP systems, customers’

system, vendors’ system, or banks’ system. Customers

often use several R/3 systems. This could be due to

organisational or business reasons (if a customer has

several plants all around the world, for example) or

technical reasons (the data volume or system load is too

large for single R/3 system). In many cases, data has to

be exchanged between these systems. There has been an

increasing and critical need for powerful interfacing

technology.

Decentralized business applications ensuring data

consistency are used because:

• The increasing globalisation of markets has led to the

physical division of organizational units.

• Business processes are not restricted to one

organization only and more and more customers and

vendors are becoming involved.

• R/3 System performance can be improved by distributing

the business applications.

Application Link Enabling and Electronic Data Interchange

(EDI) technologies play a key role in the extension of

enterprise processes across multiple R/3 and non-R/3

systems.

Application Link Enabling (ALE) is SAP’s proprietary

technology that enables data communications between two

or more SAP R/3 systems, and/or SAP R/3 and external

systems. ALE provides intelligent mechanisms whereby

clients can achieve integration as well as distribution

of applications and data.

ALE/ IDOC

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp2004/helpdata/en/dc/6b835943d711d1893e0000e8323c4f/content.htm

http://www.sapgenie.com/sapgenie/docs/ale_scenario_development_procedure.doc

http://edocs.bea.com/elink/adapter/r3/userhtm/ale.htm#1008419

http://www.netweaverguru.com/EDI/HTML/IDocBook.htm

http://www.sapgenie.com/sapedi/index.htm

http://www.sappoint.com/abap/ale.pdf

http://www.sappoint.com/abap/ale2.pdf

http://www.sapgenie.com/sapedi/idoc_abap.htm

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp2005/helpdata/en/0b/2a60bb507d11d18ee90000e8366fc2/frameset.htm

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp2005/helpdata/en/78/217da751ce11d189570000e829fbbd/frameset.htm

http://www.allsaplinks.com/idoc_sample.html

http://www.sappoint.com/abap.html

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp2004/helpdata/en/dc/6b835943d711d1893e0000e8323c4f/content.htm

http://www.sapgenie.com/sapgenie/docs/ale_scenario_development_procedure.doc

http://edocs.bea.com/elink/adapter/r3/userhtm/ale.htm#1008419

http://www.netweaverguru.com/EDI/HTML/IDocBook.htm

http://www.sapgenie.com/sapedi/index.htm

http://www.allsaplinks.com/idoc_sample.html

Check these step-by-step links

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/com.sap.km.cm.docs/library/uuid/ccab6730-0501...

https://sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/com.sap.km.cm.docs/library/uuid/8fd773b3-0301-001...

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/com.sap.km.cm.docs/library/uuid/3c5d9ae3-0501...

regards,

srinivas

<b>reward for useful answers</b>

[Former Member]

Hi Allan,

ALE is application link enabling, if you want to transfer data(master/transactional data) from an SAP system to SAP/Non-SAP system you can use ALE.This done using IDOCs.

ALE can be divided into

Output Process: Extracting data from database and putting it in the IDOC.

Communication Process: Which involves transferring the IDOC to the target system.

Inbound Process: Posting the IDOC data into the tables of the receiver system.

Using transactions SALE and WEDI you can accomlish almost anything needed to set up ALE.

Thanks & Regards,

Vanita M.