Can DS cause iDocs to be processed by SAP?

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Hi All. I suspect the answer is no, but I’m wondering if it’s possible to get DS to generate an iDoc and then cause it to be processed by SAP. Some kind of automated equivalent of the BD87 transaction is what I’m after.

As always, any comments gratefully received.

Nemesis :australia: (BOB member since 2004-06-09)

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Yes, BODS can generate an iDoc and send it into SAP. Used commonly. See the documentation on the SAP supplement. For lots of examples, download the Best Practices for Data Migration code from the SAP support portal and inspect almost any of the final data flows.

JeffPrenevost :us: (BOB member since 2010-10-09)

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Thanks for the reply. I think my original question was poorly worded. I am already generating the iDocs.
Let’s take the ARTMAS iDoc as an example. I am updating the EAN type and I successfully generate thousands of iDocs. These then wait for further processing by SAP. I can see the list of iDocs using the WE05 transaction and I manually process the iDocs using the BD87 transaction. This is a two step process.
I am wondering if I can get DS to generate the iDoc, send it to SAP and then invoke an SAP transaction. Thus becoming a one step process.

Nemesis :australia: (BOB member since 2004-06-09)

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I thought IDOCs are usually processed automatically with a few seconds time delay? Am I wrong??

Werner Daehn :de: (BOB member since 2004-12-17)

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I’ve done a bit more digging into this issue and found that the ARTMAS partner profile has been set to ‘Trigger by background program’ rather than ‘Trigger Immediately’. This has been done deliberately as this option allows parallel processing of iDocs which is useful as we are migrating data and generating 10s of thousands of iDocs.

Nemesis :australia: (BOB member since 2004-06-09)

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And what would you think about triggering that program every hour within SAP?

Werner Daehn :de: (BOB member since 2004-12-17)

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We will probably do that for the production client. As the legacy data is still causing many problems the plan is to continue with manual control in the DEV and TEST environments.

Nemesis :australia: (BOB member since 2004-06-09)