EDI IDOC Tables
Requirement: You wish to investigate the contents of an IDoc. Or you need to locate a specific IDoc based upon a specific IDoc segment value.
Solution: The best solution is not to use tables, but instead to use the standard SAP transaction WE09. (The IDoc search for business content.) Here you can locate for example, all Sales Order IDocs that were for a specific product. (You search for a value (material) in a field (IDTNR) within a segment for example (E1EDP19) for a Basic Type for example (ORDERS05).
In some instances you may wish to use the tables in which case there are 3 main reference tables:
- Control Record Table = EDIDC
- Data Record Table = EDID4
- Status Record Table = EDIDS
How to find the IP address of a SAP system
Scenario – You wish to connect to your SAP system from a remote connection, you require your SAP system IP address and port.
Option 1 – There are a few methods to discover the IP address of a system the easiest being to simply use the menu path:
System–>Status–> then press (SHIFT+F5) –> You will see your current systems IP address under the System Information.
Option 2 – Alternativly you may use SM59 then select R/3 connections and double click on the system (RFC destination), then select the menu path:
System Information–>Target System –> You will see the target systems IP address under the “Network address”.
So which system is connected?
I work on a large landscape of 110 SAP systems (not clients). Every now and then someone asks if a specific system is connected to another, there is no way I can remember which systems are connected. Depending on what system they are referring to one may be able to execute a system specific transaction. However as a dependable alternative one may simply use SM59 and view the connected systems.
Here you can view the following connections:
- R/3 connections
- HTTP Connections to R/3 System
- Internal connections
- Logical destinations
- TCP/IP connections
- Connections via ABAP/4 driver
Tip – Depending on your settings (If the logon data is saved on the Logon/security tab) you may even be able to login to a connected system remotely from within SM59, simply select the R/3 connection and selecting “Remote logon” button.
EDI – IDoc Segment Qualifiers Actions Sundry tips
Have you ever looked for documentation on an IDoc type, listing all segments, all fields including descriptions in the segment and all actions/qualifiers or possible selection values for a field?
You can get all this information by generating a report on a specific IDoc type by using the following function module in Se37: IDOCTYPE_READ_COMPLETE
Put the IDoc basic type for example “ORDERS05” in the field “PI_IDOCTYP” then select the Test Icon.
Alternatively Should you wish to see all qualifiers for a specific segment you can use the Function module “SEGMENT_READ_COMPLETE”.
Enter the segment, for example “E1EDK02” in the field “PI_SEGTYP” and select the Test Icon. In this example segment you will find there are 92 possible qualifiers.
Unrelated Sundry EDI OSS notes
A great OSS note regarding EDI with 27 questions and answers is “SAP Note 456127 – FAQ: Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)in purchasing” .
Another OSS note which gives the settings to use in WE20 when you use the Message Control tab – ”SAP Note 389713 – VE 561: Partner nnn is not an EDI partner”.
Quick and Easy Tut – EDI – Pricing Condition Records
Introduction
So you know that SAP can send pricing condition records from your SAP system to another system using ALE/EDI. An investigation of transaction WE60 can show you the structure of the Basic Type “COND_A03″.
But what is the easiest method of sending the initial data load from SAP to another system for pricing condition records, or how do you use it? Read more 
