Basics of IDoc

An IDoc (intermediate document) is a standard data structure for electronic data interchange (EDI). IDocs are used for the data interchange between SAP systems as well as between an SAP system and an external system. IDocs serve as the vehicle for data transfer in SAP’s Application Link Enabling (ALE) system. The contents, structure, sender, receiver, and current status of the IDoc are defined in the IDoc header.Data acquisition from an SAP source system is a very common scenario in SAP BW. This process involves extracting the data using either standard business content-provided extractors or custom-built extractors.
Failure of data to load usually leads to loss of productive time in re-triggering the extraction.

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Segment Reporting on New General Ledger

Evaluating the range of options that are available for segment reporting within the SAP ERP system is complex, primarily due to the multitude of possible implementation solutions. Additionally, it is difficult to isolate a decision through the segment reporting approach from overall decisions regarding the integrated reporting strategy and the underlying system architecture. The emphasis in this paper is on recommending the best foundations of segment reporting design. In addition, we explain the key reports in SAP ERP and SAP NetWeaver BI to comply with segment reporting requirements.

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Company and Company Code

In SAP world, very frequently you might be coming across the Word Company and Company Code. Sometimes it is understood that these two words are interchangeable and have the same meaning. But in fact, these are not interchangeable and are two different words with different meaning. Hence one should not derive the same meaning from the two. In SAP, to understand the definition and assignment of enterprise structure and terminology used for different organizational level, it is necessary to understand the following definition of these two words.

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Main Database Tables in Asset Accounting

 

Tables For Postings

Postings in Asset Accounting create or modifies entries in the following tables:

  • ANEK (Document Header Asset Posting)
  • ANEP (Asset Line Items)
  • ANEA (Proportional Values: mostly for retirements and retiring transfers)
  • ANLC (asset values summarized on area and year level)
  • ANLB (only for the very first posting on the asset; table is updated)
  • ANLA (aquisition date, deactivation date, origin)

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SAP Basis Information Toolkit

In these documents you will get tips and tricks of Basis Operations on Windows,UNIX and Linux.Besides you will get answer to those questions;

Backups

what do I need to backup?
how often do I need to backup?
what are my backup options?

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Useful Function Modules

 

This is an article listed few of the SAP function Modules, which are available in the system and can be used for various purposes, Some of them are left undocumented, which are left for further exploration. User may explore them and find out how useful they can be for their purposes. 

1 .WS_DOWNLOAD: File transfer from internal table into presentation server file.

2. WS_UPLOAD: File transfer from presentation server file to internal table. This function Module transfers file from workstation to SAP System. Pass on the name of ASCII file user wants to upload and that gets uploaded in memory.

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ABAP/4 Optimization

ABAP/4 programs can take a very long time to execute, and can make other processes have to wait before executing. Here are some tips to speed up your programs and reduce the load your programs put on the system:

  • Use the GET RUN TIME command to help evaluate performance. It’s hard to know whether that optimization technique REALLY helps unless you test it out. Using this tool can help you know what is effective, under what kinds of conditions. The GET RUN TIME has problems under multiple CPUs, so you should use it to test small pieces of your program, rather than the whole program.

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