ALE for Change Pointers

Change Pointers:
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Change documents are working based on change document technique which tracks changes made to the key documents (Material Master, Customer Master, Vendor Master ..etc) in SAP.-Changes made to the keydocuments are recorded in the change document Header table i.e. CDHDR and Item table CDPOS, Additional change pointers are written in the BDCP and BDCPS tables. -Change pointers technique is used to initiate the outbound process automatically when master data is created or changed.-A standard program RBDMIDOC is sechuled to run on periodic basis to evaluate the change pointers for a message type and starts the ALE process for distributing the Masterdata to the appropriate destination. -'Object' is collection of fields of different database tables. T.code for creating an object is SCDO.
* Configuration for Change Pointers:
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1. BD61 Active change pointers generally
- Check the checkbox "Change pointers activated -generally"
- Save it
2. BD50 Active change pointers for Message Type
- Message Type Active
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MATMAS check the check box
3. SCDO Change Document Objects
- Check whether the "MATERIAL" is available in the object list.
4. BD52 Maintain Table Views
- Enter the Message type "MATMAS" and press enter.
- OBJECT TABLE NAME FIELD NAME
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Ex: MATERIAL MARA BISMT
5. BD60 Additional data for message types
- Message Type Function Module Table
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Ex: MATMAS MASTERIDOC_CREATE_SMD_MATMAS MARA
6. WE20 Partner Profile
7. BD64 Distribution Model
8. Create a Material by using T.Code MM01
9. SE38 Run the program by passing Message type "MATMAS"
10. WE02 IDOC List