Transfer method

To set up communication between a sender system and EC-EIS/EC-BP, you must maintain the transfer parameters. The procedure for R/2 and R/3 sender systems is described in detail in Customizing.

For communication at network level, refer to the R/3 documentation SAP Communication: Configuration . The R/2 document S41.2 is identical to this documentation.

Sender structure

You maintain the sender structures for transaction data, master data, master data comments and master data hierarchies in R/2 and R/3 Systems in Customizing. When you maintain the sender structures, you define how the transferred data is to be interpreted by the system.

You can create validations for each sender structure. Validations prevent the transfer of falsely converted or meaningless data to an aspect. For more information, see Activating Validations for Data Transfer .

In Customizing you can combine several sender structures in one package. This way you can use different sender structures to send a file to several aspects in a certain sequence.

Receiver structure

The receiver structure does not need to be maintained since it corresponds to the data structure of the receiving aspect.

Transfer rules

The transfer rules, that enable the conversion of sender structures to receiver structures, are maintained separately for characteristics and key figures. The maintenance of transfer rules is described in detail in Customizing.

For more information, see Example of the Methods of Data Transfer .