Administration of ALE Functions 

 

Purpose

 

Application Link Enabling provides a range of administration tools:

 

·        Monitoring IDoc Processing and tRFC Communication

·        Transport Customizing Data from Maintenance Systems into Recipient Systems

·        Optimize ALE Performance

·        Serialize Messages

·        Periodic Master Data Distribution (Change Pointer)

·        Convert Logical Systems (Assign Unique System Names)

·        Convert Data between Sender and Recipient

·        Recover Data (Point-In-Time Recovery) in ALE Systems

 

The ALE administration functions are under SAP Menu® Tools ® IDoc Interface/ALE ® Administration

There are some references to customizing (IMG) settings. The ALE-specific part is under transaction SPRO ® SAP Reference IMG ® SAP Web Application Server ® IDoc Interface/Application Link Enabling (ALE).

 

In the sections below you will find general information, step-by-step procedures and information about the settings required in Customizing for ALE.) Here you will also find information on the settings required in Customizing.