Setting Up Communication

To set up the communication, a series of steps are required that you have to carry out in Customizing for ALE (Transaction SALE).

For more information about maintaining ALE communication relationships, see  Application Server  IDoc Interface/ALE , in the IMG:

• Define the RFC destinations

  The remote function call is controlled by the RFC destination parameters. For further information see Maintaining Remote Destinations.

  You can also specify which RFC destinations are to be used for synchronous method calls. These calls can either be BAPIs or dialog methods. For more information about maintaining RFC destinations for these calls, see

  RFC Destinations for Synchronous Method Calls

  In the IMG, choose:

   IDoc Interface/Application Link Enabling  Communication 

• Generate partner profiles

  The partner profiles are based on the distribution model.

  In the ALE IMG, choose:

   Modelling and Implementing Business Processes  Partner Profiles 

• Partner profiles and model settings are checked for consistency.

  In addition to checking the consistency of the partner profiles and model settings, you can check the consistency of all the systems and the distribution of the Customizing data.

  In the ALE IMG, choose:

   Modelling and Implementing Business Processes  Partner Profiles 

• Check connections

  When the system is running, you can check whether the messages sent have been received in the receiver system and you can monitor the processing status of the messages.

  In the ALE IMG, choose:

   System Monitoring  IDoc Confirmation in Receiver System (ALE Audit)