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Ale Edi Idoc

ALE (Application Link Enabling) is SAP's proprietary technology that enables data exchange between SAP systems or between SAP and external systems. IDocs are used to exchange data in the form of intermediate documents, which are stored in database tables. IDocs use ALE to exchange data between two SAP systems, and use EDI to convert and deliver data when exchanged between a SAP and non-SAP system.

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Ale Edi Idoc

ALE (Application Link Enabling) is SAP's proprietary technology that enables data exchange between SAP systems or between SAP and external systems. IDocs are used to exchange data in the form of intermediate documents, which are stored in database tables. IDocs use ALE to exchange data between two SAP systems, and use EDI to convert and deliver data when exchanged between a SAP and non-SAP system.

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The interface concept of the classic R/3 is based on two different strategies:

Remote Function Calls (RFC) and data exchange through IDoc message documents.

Application Link Enabling (ALE) is a mechanism


for the exchange of business data between loosely-coupled R/3 applications built by

customers of SAP, the enterprise resource management program.

OR

IDOCs uses ALE and EDI to deliver the data to the receiving system.
If the data needs to be exchanged between two SAP systems, then IDOC uses ALE
technology .
For the exchange of data between a SAP and Non SAP system, IDOC uses
EDI subsystem to convert and deliver the data.

ALE provides black-box technology, so the user is at a higher level.

ALE stands for Application Link Enabling.ALE is used for exchanging business data
between different systems.
This form of communication requires IDOC interface .

ALE is SAP proprietary technology that enables data communications between


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

OR

ALE is technology for SAP mainly use to transfer data between SAP systems.

There are three layers in the ALE system:

application services,
distribution services, and
communication services.

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IDoc :

The messages that are exchanged are in the form of IDocs or Intermediate Documents
In the SAP system IDocs are stored in the database tables.
They can be used for SAP to SAP and SAP to non-SAP process communication

IDOC is obtained by using transaction WE60

Every IDoc has exactly one control record along with a number of data records and
status records

1 --Control record has the details of sender/receiver and other control information
(Partner no,partner type ,port)
Data records contain the actual business data to be exchanged while

2 --Data records contain what data is contained in the IDoc's like currency ,
start date , document
number , recipt number ,

Note : Under data records we have different segments and in segment we have
different type of data .

exapmle - if FI document coming up or HR Master data is coming up from one sys to


another sys

it will contains emp no ,emp add, emp dob like that . so different modules data
stores in different segments .

3-- status records : IDoc has been processed(Y/n)


Processing Successfuly /Errors
What type of errors

Some Common IDoc Status :

In Inbound :

Success -53
Error -51

In Outbound :

Successfully Created -30


Successfully Sent out -03
Error -26

OR

IDoc is an acronym for Intermediate Document.


The purpose of an IDoc is to transfer data or information from SAP to other systems
and vice versa.
The transfer from SAP to non-SAP system is done via EDI (Electronic Data
Interchange) subsystems
whereas for transfer between two SAP systems, ALE is used.
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EDI :

EDI provides a commom language for company's computer systems


to talk to another company's computer system.

EDI (Electronic Document interchange) -

EDI is the electronic exchange of business documents between


the computer systems of business partners, using a standard format
over a communication network.

EDI is also called paperless exchange

The EDI subsystem:

The EDI subsystem: This converts the IDoc types into EDI message types and vice
versa.
This component of the EDI architecture is not supplied by SAP.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERvJpAW4lNY

https://archive.sap.com/discussions/thread/412890

http://www.saptechnical.com/Tutorials/ALE/Guide/Index.htm

http://searchsap.techtarget.com/definition/Application-Link-Enabling

https://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/ABAP/ALE%2CIDOC

http://www.erpgreat.com/abap/ale-bapi.htm - IMP PPPPPPPPPPPP

https://blogs.sap.com/2012/12/31/idoc-basics-for-functional-consultants/ -
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http://www.riyaz.net/sap/beginners-guide-to-ale-and-idocs-a-step-by-step-
approach/18/

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mainly 3 types of exchanged data mostly

1 Transaction Data
2 Master Data
3 Control Data

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