ALE IDOC configuration documents FIC.ppt
- 1. 3/5/2024 Overview of ALE/IDOCs 1 Overview of ALE / EDI / IDOCs
- 2. Overview of ALE/IDOCs 2 3/5/2024 EDI What is EDI? Type of EDI process • Outbound EDI Process • Inbound EDI Process
- 3. Overview of ALE/IDOCs 3 3/5/2024 What is EDI? EDI is electronic exchange of business documents between the computer systems of business partner using a standard format over a communication network EDI is also called a paperless exchange.
- 4. Overview of ALE/IDOCs 4 3/5/2024 Typical EDI/IDOC Scenario
- 5. Overview of ALE/IDOCs 5 3/5/2024 Outbound Process With Message Control Directly -With out Message Control
- 6. Overview of ALE/IDOCs 6 3/5/2024 Inbound Process With Function Module
- 7. Overview of ALE/IDOCs 7 3/5/2024 EDI Configuration How to Set Up an RFC Destination in SAP The Port Definitions Configure Partner Profile Configure Message Control
- 8. Overview of ALE/IDOCs 8 3/5/2024 Complete EDI/ ALE scenario
- 9. Overview of ALE/IDOCs 9 3/5/2024 ALE What is ALE? Components of ALE. Anatomy of an IDoc. ALE Processing Transactions For Monitoring and Processing IDocs. Questions
- 10. Overview of ALE/IDOCs 10 3/5/2024 ALE Terminology •ALE - Application Linking & Enabling •IDoc - Intermediate Document •EDI - Electronic Data Interchange
- 11. Overview of ALE/IDOCs 11 3/5/2024 ALE Objective
- 12. Overview of ALE/IDOCs 12 3/5/2024 ALE!! What is it ?? It is a set of Tools, programs and data definitions Provides distribution model and technology that enables SAP Customer to interconnect programs across various platforms and systems.
- 13. Overview of ALE/IDOCs 13 3/5/2024 Features –ALE / IDocs Distributed System yet integrated with SAP R/3 Based on ‘Application-to-Application integration using ‘Message Architecture’ Reliable communication Data is exchanged using “IDocs” Support both R/2, R/3 and External system If network problem, message is buffered ALE support backward compatibility ALE ensure that , data is transferred only once
- 14. Overview of ALE/IDOCs 14 3/5/2024 ALE Scenario Document SAP System R/3 SAP System R/3 IDoc EDI Subsystem EDI Subsystem IDoc IDoc
- 15. Overview of ALE/IDOCs 15 3/5/2024 What is ALE ? Components of ALE. Anatomy of an IDoc. ALE Processing Transactions For Monitoring and Processing IDocs. Trouble Shooting Questions Topics to cover
- 16. Overview of ALE/IDOCs 16 3/5/2024 Components of ALE Services: Application Services Distribution Services Communication Services
- 17. Overview of ALE/IDOCs 17 3/5/2024 Application Services Services: Application Services Distribution Services Communication Services This is where the SAP applications ( SD, FI, MM etc. ) generate their data and documents
- 18. Overview of ALE/IDOCs 18 3/5/2024 Distribution Services Services: Application Services Distribution Services Communication Services Recipients Formats and Filters the data Creates IDocs ( Intermediate Documents
- 19. Overview of ALE/IDOCs 19 3/5/2024 Communication Services Services: Application Services Distribution Services Communication Services •TCP/IP •RFC •tRFC • etc
- 20. Overview of ALE/IDOCs 20 3/5/2024 Application Data Master IDOC Determine Receipients Filter/Convert Data, Create IDOC Comm. IDOC Application Functions Filter/Convert Data Comm. IDOC Carrier Application Layer Distribution/ ALE Layer Communication Layer Application In a Nut Shell
- 21. Overview of ALE/IDOCs 21 3/5/2024 Topics to cover What is ALE ? Components of ALE. Anatomy of an IDoc. ALE Processing Transactions For Monitoring and Processing IDocs. Trouble Shooting Questions
- 22. Overview of ALE/IDOCs 22 3/5/2024 IDoc Concept R/3 System System 1 SAP Document EDI subsystem R/3 System R/2 System 3rd party software System 2 IDoc
- 23. Overview of ALE/IDOCs 23 3/5/2024 IDoc Structure Status Record IDoc-ID Status information Data Record IDoc-ID Sequence/Hierarchy Segment Format definition for • header data • item data Control Record IDoc-ID Sender-ID Receiver-ID IDoc type and logical message External structure
- 24. Overview of ALE/IDOCs 24 3/5/2024 Control record Data Record Status Record IDOC “Intermediate Document”
- 25. Overview of ALE/IDOCs 25 3/5/2024 The very first record of an IDoc package is always a control record. The structure of this control record of the structure EDIDC and describes the contents of the data contained in the package. The control record goes to table EDIDC Control Record
- 26. Overview of ALE/IDOCs 26 3/5/2024 Message Type Message Type indicates How to Know what the data Means Data Exchanged by IDOC and EDI is known as Messages Message of same kind belong to the same message type. Message types are stored in table EDMSG
- 27. Overview of ALE/IDOCs 27 3/5/2024 All records in the IDoc, which come after the control record, are the IDoc data. They are all structured alike, with a segment information part and a data part, which is 1000 character in length, filling the rest of the line. Data & Segment info is stored in EDID4 for release 4.x and EDID3 for release 2.x and 3.x. Data Record
- 28. Overview of ALE/IDOCs 28 3/5/2024 Status Record Information about the IDoc status like: IDoc identification number Status number - table verified IDoc type Direction Data and time stamp; Structure: EDIDS
- 29. Overview of ALE/IDOCs 29 3/5/2024 Status of IDOC A two-digit status is assigned to an IDoc to allow the processing to be monitored. The statuses for outbound IDocs are between '01' and '49', while the statuses for inbound IDocs begin with '50'.
- 30. Overview of ALE/IDOCs 30 3/5/2024 Idoc Segments TCODE: WE31
- 31. Overview of ALE/IDOCs 31 3/5/2024 Idoc Types TCODE: WE30
- 32. Overview of ALE/IDOCs 32 3/5/2024 How to Attach Segments
- 33. Overview of ALE/IDOCs 33 3/5/2024 Message Types WE81 WE82
- 34. Overview of ALE/IDOCs 34 3/5/2024 IDOC Type/ Message Type/ Processing Function Module Valid combination of Message type and IDOC type are stored in table EDIMSG Combination of message type and IDOC type determine the processing algorithm. This is usually a function module and is set up in table EDIFCT.
- 35. Overview of ALE/IDOCs 35 3/5/2024 Topics to cover What is ALE ? Components of ALE. Anatomy of an IDoc. ALE Processing. i.Outbound Processing ii.Inbound Processing Transactions For Monitoring and Processing IDocs. Trouble Shooting Questions
- 36. Overview of ALE/IDOCs 36 3/5/2024 Outbound Processing
- 37. Overview of ALE/IDOCs 37 3/5/2024 Outbound processing: direct Application posting Need to create IDOC? Create master IDOC Customer Distribution Model Receiver determination Segment filter Field value conversion Version change ALE layer Dispatch control Database M Application document posted simultaneously with IDOCs Comm. layer asynch. RFC or EDI System call FM ( INBOUND_ IDOC_ PROCESS ) On destination C Links C Comm. layer
- 38. Overview of ALE/IDOCs 38 3/5/2024 Dispatch control Application posting Need to create IDOC? Create master IDOC Customer Distribution Model Receiver determination Segment filter Field value conversion Version change ALE layer Dispatch control Database M Application document posted simultaneously with IDocs C asynch. RFC or EDI Links C asynch. RFC or EDI C Comm. layer - Technical comms parameters are defined - EDI or aRFC (asynch. remote function call) - Send immediately or cumulate and send via batch job If batch, packet size is determined
- 39. Overview of ALE/IDOCs 39 3/5/2024 Scenario analysis • How does the IDOC look like ? • How is data being sent ? • How is the data being received ?
- 40. Overview of ALE/IDOCs 40 3/5/2024 Outbound program development • Program logic – “How is the IDOC being created ?” • Triggering – “How is the IDOC creation kicked off ?”
- 41. Overview of ALE/IDOCs 41 3/5/2024 Program logic • Select data from application tables • Fill data into IDOC • Pass IDOC to ALE layer (Call function MASTER_IDOC_DISTRIBUTE) • Commit Work • Receiver determination • Segment filtering • Version Control • Dispatch Control IDOC program ALE layer MASTER_IDOC_DISTRIBUTE
- 42. Overview of ALE/IDOCs 42 3/5/2024 MASTER_IDOC_DISTRIBUTE Call function ‘MASTER_IDOC_DISTRIBUTE’ Exporting master_idoc_control: IDOC control record Tables communication_idoc_control: returned information about the distribution master_idoc_data: IDOC data segments
- 43. Overview of ALE/IDOCs 43 3/5/2024 Filling an EDIDD structure Header (55bytes) SDATA (1000bytes) …. SEGNAM …. EDIDD Z1SEG Field1 Field2 Field3 Field4 “10” “ABC” MOVE “Z1SEG” to EDIDD-SEGNAM MOVE “10” to Z1SEG-FIELD1 MOVE “ABC” to Z1SEG-FIELD2 MOVE Z1SEG to EDIDD-SDATA
- 44. Overview of ALE/IDOCs 44 3/5/2024 General Programming rules Design Guidelines for creating IDOC data records: • Left-justified filing of IDOC Fields • Replacing SAP codes with ISO codes currency keys country keys unit of measure shipping instructions • Converting Currency Amounts
- 45. Overview of ALE/IDOCs 45 3/5/2024 Left-justified Filling All fields must be left-justified Character fields: automatic Non-character fields: ‘Condense’ statement must be used Check IDOC documentation to find out which fields require a ‘condense’ All types unequal to ‘char’, ‘cuky’, ‘clnt’, ‘accp’, ‘numc’, ‘dats’, ‘tims’ or ‘unit’ require a condense
- 46. Overview of ALE/IDOCs 46 3/5/2024 Code Conversions Replacing SAP codes with ISO codes – Currency keys: ‘currency_code_sap_to_iso’ – Country keys: ‘country_code_sap_to_iso’ – Units of measure: ‘unit_of_measure_sap_to_iso’ – Shipping instructions: sap_iso_package_type_code’ • Conversion of currency amounts – ‘currency_amount_sap_to_iso’
- 47. Overview of ALE/IDOCs 47 3/5/2024 Basic Configuration Elements Define RFC Destinations Define Ports Maintain Customer Model Create Partner Profiles
- 48. Overview of ALE/IDOCs 48 3/5/2024 Maintaining RFC Destinations TCODE: SM59
- 49. Overview of ALE/IDOCs 49 3/5/2024 Displaying and Maintaining Ports A port is a logical representation of a communication channel in SAP with the data communicated being IDocs. TCODE: WE21
- 50. Overview of ALE/IDOCs 50 3/5/2024 Partner Profiles TCODE: WE20
- 51. Overview of ALE/IDOCs 51 3/5/2024 Partner Profiles-Inbound
- 52. Overview of ALE/IDOCs 52 3/5/2024 Partner Profiles-Outbound
- 53. Overview of ALE/IDOCs 53 3/5/2024 ALE For Transactional data ---- Output Determination NACE
- 54. Overview of ALE/IDOCs 54 3/5/2024 Output Determination -- Output Types
- 55. Overview of ALE/IDOCs 55 3/5/2024 Output Types -- Details
- 56. Overview of ALE/IDOCs 56 3/5/2024 Inbound Processing
- 57. Overview of ALE/IDOCs 57 3/5/2024 Inbound Processing. Application posting Field value conversion ALE layer Input control Database A Simultaneously update IDOC's status Comm. layer asynch. RFC or EDI Version change Segment filter C A Post application document Process IDOC Serialization
- 58. Overview of ALE/IDOCs 58 3/5/2024 Input Control Application posting Field value conversion ALE layer Input control Database A Simultaneously update IDOC's status Comm. layer asynch. RFC or EDI Version change Segment filter C A Post application document Process IDOC Serialization - For each message type and sender one can define when to process (immediate/batch) whether to call application directly or start customer workflow who should get work items in case of error - Incoming IDOC packets are passed to application
- 59. Overview of ALE/IDOCs 59 3/5/2024 Application Input Application posting Field value conversion ALE layer Input control Database A Simultaneously update IDOC's status Comm. layer asynch. RFC or EDI Version change Segment filter C A Post application document Process IDOC Serialization - Inbound IDOCs are passed to the application via a standardized function interface
- 60. Overview of ALE/IDOCs 60 3/5/2024 Serialization Application posting Field value conversion ALE layer Input control Database A Simultaneously update IDOC's status Comm. layer asynch. RFC or EDI Version change Segment filter C A Post application document Process IDOC Serialization - When processing the inbound IDOC, the application can call an ALE API (function module) to check that the IDOC has not been overtaken If change No. 1 arrives after change No. 2, the IDOC containing it has been overtaken (by the IDOC containing the later change)
- 61. Overview of ALE/IDOCs 61 3/5/2024 FM Assignment to Message Type and IDoc type TCODE: WE57
- 62. Overview of ALE/IDOCs 62 3/5/2024 Process Codes WE41 WE42
- 63. Overview of ALE/IDOCs 63 3/5/2024 Process Codes in Inbound and Outbound TCODE: WE64
- 64. Overview of ALE/IDOCs 64 3/5/2024 FM For Inbound EDI TCODE: BD67
- 65. Overview of ALE/IDOCs 65 3/5/2024 Inbound Program Development INBOUND_IDOC_PROCESS IDOC ALE layer IDOC_INPUT_<MSGTYPE> • Read IDOC data • Post Application data • Send Success info back to ALE layer ALE configuration • Partner Profiles • Process Code • Function module attribute • Function module registry Workflow Task Call function Return Variables If ERROR, trigger • Version change • Segment filter • Field conversion
- 66. Overview of ALE/IDOCs 66 3/5/2024 Basic Scenario Direct Method Call Transaction Method
- 67. Overview of ALE/IDOCs 67 3/5/2024 Advanced Scenario Mass processing Serialization Advanced Workflow
- 68. Overview of ALE/IDOCs 68 3/5/2024 Flow Of Program Read IDOC-Lock IDOC-Call Inbound Program- Write Status-Commit Work-Unlock IDOC
- 69. Overview of ALE/IDOCs 69 3/5/2024 Interface of Inbound FM Importing Parameter -Input Method -Mass_processing EXPORT parameter . -Workflow_result -Application_variable -In_Update_task -Call_transaction_done Tables parameter : IDOC_Control IDOC_DATA IDOC_STATUS Return_variable
- 70. Overview of ALE/IDOCs 70 3/5/2024 Topics to cover What is ALE ? Components of ALE. Anatomy of an IDoc. ALE Processing Transactions For Monitoring and Processing IDocs. Questions
- 71. Overview of ALE/IDOCs 71 3/5/2024 Monitoring IDocs • The IDoc interface offers 2 different approaches for tracking of data load and data flow: Reports for monitoring Workflow for notifications • Both approaches are based on the concept of status transitions, i.e. an IDoc changes its status from a given value to another value.
- 72. Overview of ALE/IDOCs 72 3/5/2024 List Of All IDocs Created. (Default, Additional, EDI)-- WE02/ WE05
- 73. Overview of ALE/IDOCs 73 3/5/2024 Selection Program For Issuing Output -- WE15
- 74. Overview of ALE/IDOCs 74 3/5/2024 Test Tool For Idoc Processing (WE19)
- 75. Overview of ALE/IDOCs 75 3/5/2024 Idoc Search For Business Contents (Database). WE09
- 76. Overview of ALE/IDOCs 76 3/5/2024 Questions