Have made all the necessary settings to create an IDoc. But which program should I use to generate an IDOC ?
Is it RBDSEMAT (BD10) or RBDMIDOC (BD21) ?
Answer
RBDSEMAT - Standalone program to generate IDocs (Send Material)
RBDMIDOC - Outbound triggered from change pointer
You can use standard program RBDSEMAT (BD10) to send IDoc for particular material by specifying material number only.
RBDMIDOC is used for creating IDOCs based on change pointers.
RBDMIDOC is usually automatically executed in the background.
What is RBDMIDOC?
Answer
The purpose of RBDMIDOC program is to create/collect IDOCs for specific message types from the Change Pointers.
Depending on the message type, the program RBDMIDOC creates the master IDocs and passes them to the ALE layer for dispatch.
For this you should use program RBDMIDOC. RBDMIDOC is usually automatically executed in the background. A background job should be scheduled for each message type.
Depending on the settings in the partner profiles, it may be necessary to send IDocs directly by executing the program RSEOUT00. The background job that executes the RBDMIDOC can do this in a second step.
Writing Change Pointers
If the fields are required for distribution, the SMD tool writes change pointers and stores them in the BDCP and BDCPS tables. Change pointers are basically the key fields of the table that contains the changed field. In ALE Customizing, customers can specify the fields that need to be distributed.
Change pointers are created only if both ALE and the message type are active.
Sending Changes
To distribute changed master data change pointers have to be processed. Depending on the message type, the program RBDMIDOC creates the master IDocs and passes them to the ALE layer for dispatch.
For this you should use program RBDMIDOC. RBDMIDOC is usually automatically executed in the background. A background job should be scheduled for each message type.
Depending on the settings in the partner profiles, it may be necessary to send IDocs directly by executing the program RSEOUT00. The background job that executes the RBDMIDOC can do this in a second step.
Notes:
When creating a master IDoc ensure that:
- The master IDoc contains all the IDoc segments, whose fields have changed.
- The master IDoc contains all the mandatory IDoc segments.
- The parent segments of these segments are dispatched.
- IDoc segments are sent complete, in other words, data must be entered in all fields.
