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SAP ABAP – ALE IDOC INTERVIEW

QUESTIONS
What is an ALE ?
ALE stands for Application Link Enabling which links two systems.
ALE is a technology that can enable exchange of data between two di erent Systems ( Sap – Sap OR Sap –
Non Sap).
ALE architecture has the 3 layers :
Application layer related to the application data ( SD , MM , FI or data for any SAP application ).
Distribution layer decides to whom should the data generated by the application layer has to be
distributed
Communication layer responsible for delivering the Idoc to the receiving system and communicates to the
receiving system via tRFC , File ports , FTP or TCP/IP etc. 
ALE uses IDoc as a vehicle to transfer data between two systems.
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What are the Advantages

ALE/IDOCS?
Reduced Data entry errors
Reduced processing time
Availability of data in electronic form
Reduced inventories and better planning
Standard means of communications
Better business process
What is an EDI ?
EDI stands for Electronic Data Interchange.It related to the electronic exchange of business data in a
structured format between two systems. The EDI subsystem generally converts the Idoc data into one of
the many EDI formats and generates an EDI le in an X12 format. The middleware then translates the X12 le
to an IDOC format and the IDOC is sent to the SAP system.
What are the process types of EDI?

EDI has two process:
1. Outbound process
2. Inbound process
What happens in the Outbound


Process?
1.Application document is created.
2. IDOC is generated
3.Idoc is transferred from SAP to Operating system layer
4.Idoc is converted into EDI standards
5.Edi document is transmitted to the business partner
6.The Edi Subsystem report status to SAP
What happens in the Inbound

Process?
1.EDI transmission received
2.EDI document is converted into an IDOC
3.IDOC is transferred to the SAP layer
4.The application document is created
5.The application document can be viewed.
What is RFC Destination?

Used to de ne the characteristics of communication links to a remote system on which a functions needs
to be executed.
What is a Message Control in SAP? 
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What are the types of records in SAP

ALE Idocs and where is this
information stored ?
There are three types of records in SAP ALE Idocs:
Control Records: IDoc is stored in standard table EDIDC.
Data Records: IDoc is stored in standard table EDIDD.
Status Records: IDoc is stored in standard table EDIDS.
What is a Port ? What are the types of

Ports ?
A port is a communication channel through which Messages can be sent or received in SAP.
The common port types are the TRFC Port and the File Port.
If both sender and receiver mention TRFC ports, data is exchanged via RFC connections.
If however , a le port is mentioned , the IDOC is written in a at le at the speci ed location at the sender
system.Then a FTP transfer should be done from that location to the receiver system or a Middleware that
will send the le to the receiver system.
The transaction to maintain ports is WE21.
What is a Message type ?

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you will nd that a Message type is always associated with an IDoc type. , a Message type is used just to
specify the kind of information that a system can send or receive to or from another system.
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What is a partner pro le ?

To be able to communicate with a partner via an IDoc interface, each system needs to maintain a partner
pro le. A partner pro le is a mechanism by which the system can specify what kind of messages (message
types) it can send or receive.
Partner pro les can be maintained in WE20.
What is a distribution model in ALE

IDocs ?
The distribution model describes how ALE messages ow between di erent logical systems.
You can mention the sender and receiver logical systems, the message type to be distributed and also
distribute data(IDocs) based on certain conditions by using the distribution model.
How do you create a custom IDOC?

Creation of Segment Types
Run T-code ‘WE31’ to create segment type
Creation of IDoc type
Run T-code ‘WE30’ to create custom IDoc type
Creation of logical message types
Run T-code ‘WE81’ to create the logical message types.
Linking Message type and IDoc type. 
Run T-Code ‘WE82’. Now we have to link these created IDoc types and Message types.
What is the whole process to send

custom idoc from source system to
destination system?
Common con gurations on both sides:
Creating Logical System Names SALE
Setup RFC destinations SM59
De ning Port Destinations WE21
In Source system:
Segment Creation WE31
Basic IDOC Type Creation WE30
Message Type Creation WE81
Assign Message Type To Basic IDOC Type WE82
Distribution Model BD64
Writing Report Program SE38
Partner Pro le WE20
Message control NACE
Check IDOCs WE02, WE05
In Destination System:
Creating FM SE37
Assign FM to Logical Message WE57 
De ne I/P method for Inbound FM BD51
Create Process Code WE42
Generate Partner Pro le BD64
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How can you create a at le from

IDOC generated through transaction
code WE19 for outbound processing?
Choose the standard outbound processing and send the created IDOC file to your file. Port type file is
maintained in transaction codes WE20 and WE21.
How do I create a Fileter group for my

message?
To create a filter group, implement transaction codes BD59and BD95.
How do you Search error lines within

the IDOC file? 
Table EDID4 includes all the header and segment data of an IDOC file. Use transaction code SE16 to data
browses the table. Another alternative is to implement transaction code WE09 or WE10. It retrieves IDOC
files that match the condition you input (segment, field and value.).
How do you view the IDOC file status

history?
Select the IDOC file with transaction code WE02. Double-click on the IDOC file you wish to display. On the
left side, you will have both the IDOC file content (segments) and the status history (successive status
values). By clicking on the status, you will receive even more details, such as time and user ID.
What is an Idoc?
An IDoc (Intermediate document) is a vehicle that is used to transfer data from one system to another.
IDoc is not a technology of some sort , but it is just a container that holds data .
It holds data in a structured format i.e. in the Fields of the Segments.
What is IDoc Type?

IDoc Type vs. IDoc:
An IDoc Type is nothing but a collection of one or more structures de ned in a system with speci c elds. It
does not hold Data.
However, an IDoc is something that holds the values in the elds of the structure de ned by IDOC type.
The transaction code to view an IDoc type (Basic and extension) is WE30.
Examples: ORDERS04, DEBMAS04, MATMAS04, CREMAS04.
These are all SAP standard Basic IDoc Types.
What is an IDoc Extension ?

What is an IDoc Extension ?
You can even have an IDoc extension in which you can use the existing Basic IDoc type and add extra
segments and elds to it. Usually we extend an IDoc when the standard SAP IDoc type is not able to cater
to the business process.
Difference between IDOC and IDOC

type?
IDOC type speci es Data Structure and IDOC is the instance based on IDOC type.
what is structure of IDOC?

IDOC has three type of records:
Control Record — contains control info ex: receiver port etc

Data record — Contains IDOC data
Status — holds IDOC status.
How can debug runtime IDOC?

When it comes to debugging, I believe we can make use of WE19.
How to reprocess error IDOC's ?

We can reprocess error IDOC’s(status 51) using program RBDAGAIN
Can we send the idoc to multiple sub

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If you are sending one idoc to more systems ,then we have to create one sender logical system and more
receiver logical systems in Tcode is SALE. After then we will send In Tcode BD64.
What is the main difference between

ALE/IDOC and BAPI?
ALE/IDocs are used for asynchronous information interchange.while BAPIs are used for synchronous
information interchange
How do you correct and reprocessing

the idoc?
If we have any error in IDOC then we can edit it by using WE02 Tcode,after that you can reprocess the
corrected IDOC by using BD87tcode.
How to reprocess edited IDOC's ?

We can reprocess edited IDOC’s using program RBDAGAIE (Se38 prorgram)
What is the difference between SAP

memory and ABAP memory?
SAP memory is Global Memory is available to a user during the entire duration of a terminal session. Its
contents are retained across transaction boundaries as well as external and internal sessions.

The contents of the ABAP/4 memory are retained only during the lifetime of an external session .
Suppose i was sent 12 records using

outbound in ale/idoc 10 records are
up dated in data base tables what
happens for remaining records did
not showing error in WE02?
We are trying to generate the idocs with 12 records, and u nd only 10 records idocs created remaining
records are missing.We have to check with the lter set up for the records for its receiving partner system
logical system . Correct the lters then try regenerating the idocs(missing records).
How do you reprocess previously

generated idoc with same number?
We can use BD87 ,if you want to reprocess same idoc number.
How do you get output from IDOC?

Data in IDOc is stored in segments, the output from Idoc is obtained by reading the data stored in its
respective segments.
How do we generate IDOC in SAP ?

We can generate IDOC using function module MASTER_IDOC_DISTRIBUTE
Where is all the IDOCs will be stored

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EDIDC stores control/header record.
EDIDD/EDID4 stores data records.
EDIDS stores status records.
What is an Idoc status? What are the

different types of Idoc statuses ?
When an IDoc is sent from one system to another , it goes through variuos stages.The IDoc status indicates
the stage that the Idoc in currently in.
There about 75 IDoc statuses.
0-49 indicates an Outbound IDoc and 50-75 as Inbound IDoc.
01 IDoc generated
02 Error passing data to port
03 Data passed to port OK
51 Application document not posted
52 Application document not fully posted
53 Application document posted
What is the conversion rule of

LAE/IDOC?
Imagine ,If both the systems have di erent con gurations then we need to convert the measurements 
like
Unit of measure/Text id that is converting eld value from one value to another.
What is the Serialization of IDOC

Message type?
IDocs are created, sent and posted in a speci c order. This prevents errors occurring when inbound IDocs
are processed. Interdependent messages can be distributed serially in di erent ways, as described in the
following sections.
Serialization Using Message Types
Serialization Using Business Objects.
What is an IDOC Filtration?

The system provides several lter objects for each message type to lter data. We have to choose the
appropriate lter for our business needs and add it to our distribution model.
We can create lter objects for a receiver in Distribution Model View: Tcode BD64.
How do you reprocess error inbound

idocs?
Open the IDOC in error in WE02 Transaction.
Expand the status records, and see which segment is in error.
Replace the error value with the correct value and click on the save button.
Now go to transaction BD87, enter the IDOC number and click on execute. It will re-process the IDOC with
the modi ed data and display the success message if there are no errors in the edited data.
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SAP ABAP – ALE IDOC INTERVIEW

ALE architecture has the 3 layers :

ALE uses IDoc as a vehicle to transfer data between two systems.

What are the Advantages

Reduced processing time

Availability of data in electronic form

Reduced inventories and better planning

Standard means of communications

Better business process

What are the process types of EDI?

What happens in the Outbound

3.Idoc is transferred from SAP to Operating system layer

4.Idoc is converted into EDI standards

5.Edi document is transmitted to the business partner

6.The Edi Subsystem report status to SAP

What happens in the Inbound

2.EDI document is converted into an IDOC

3.IDOC is transferred to the SAP layer

4.The application document is created

5.The application document can be viewed.

What is RFC Destination?

What is a Message Control in SAP? 

What are the types of records in SAP

Control Records: IDoc is stored in standard table EDIDC.

Data Records: IDoc is stored in standard table EDIDD.

Status Records: IDoc is stored in standard table EDIDS.

What is a Port ? What are the types of

The transaction to maintain ports is WE21.

What is a Message type ?

The link between aLearn the most

What is a partner pro le ?

Partner pro les can be maintained in WE20.

What is a distribution model in ALE

How do you create a custom IDOC?

Run T-code ‘WE31’ to create segment type

Creation of IDoc type

Run T-code ‘WE30’ to create custom IDoc type

Creation of logical message types

Run T-code ‘WE81’ to create the logical message types.

Linking Message type and IDoc type. 

What is the whole process to send

Creating Logical System Names SALE

Setup RFC destinations SM59

De ning Port Destinations WE21

Segment Creation WE31

Basic IDOC Type Creation WE30

Message Type Creation WE81

Assign Message Type To Basic IDOC Type WE82

Distribution Model BD64

Writing Report Program SE38

Partner Pro le WE20

Message control NACE

Check IDOCs WE02, WE05

Assign FM to Logical Message WE57 

De ne I/P method for Inbound FM BD51