Optimizing ALE Performance

IDocs are fundamental to Application Link Enabling. Optimal system performance in ALE processing is synonymous with optimal performance of IDocs.

In ALE processing, IDocs are:

• Created in the SAP sending system

• Transferred to the communication layer in the SAP sending system

• Used when SAP sending and receiving systems communicate

• Processed in the receiver system

You can optimize IDoc processing in one or more of the following ways:

• Controlling IDoc Events

• Processing IDocs in Parallel

• Processing IDoc Packets

• Administration of IDoc Communication

• Archiving and Reorganization