EDI_DC - IDoc Control Record 

Definition

The IDoc control record EDI_DC contains important information on partners who transmit and receive IDocs. It can occur exactly once for each IDoc.

Only some of the fields need to be filled for IDocs that are transmitted from the forwarding agent to the R/3 system. These are identified as mandatory fields in the following field list.

If an IDoc is transmitted from the R/3 system to the forwarding agent, then nearly all fields are filled, although the only fields that are relevant are those that are marked as such.

Field name

Format

TPS-
relevant

Req’d
field

Significance

TABNAM

CHAR 10

   

Name of the table structure

MANDT

CHAR 03

   

Client

DOCNUM

NUMC 16

X

X

Number of the IDoc

DOCREL

CHAR 04

   

SAP release of IDoc

STATUS

CHAR 02

   

Status of the IDoc

DOCTYP

CHAR 08

   

IDoc type

DIRECT

CHAR 01

   

Direction

RCVPOR

CHAR 10

   

Receiver port (SAP system, EDI subsystem)

RCVPRT

CHAR 02

X

X

Partner type of receiver

RCVPRN

CHAR 10

X

X

Partner number of receiver

RCVSAD

CHAR 21

   

EDI: SADR fields (total)

RCVLAD

CHAR 70

   

Logical address of receiver

STD

CHAR 01

   

EDI standard

STDVRS

CHAR 06

   

Version of EDI standard

STDMES

CHAR 06

   

EDI message type

MESCOD

CHAR 03

   

Logical message variant

MESFCT

CHAR 03

   

Logical address of receiver

OUTMOD

CHAR 01

   

Issue mode

TEST

CHAR 01

   

Test indicator

SNDPOR

CHAR 10

   

Transmission port (SAP system, EDI subsystem)

SNDPRT

CHAR 02

X

X

Partner type of transmitter

SNDPRN

CHAR 10

X

X

Partner number of transmitter

SNDSAD

CHAR 21

   

EDI: SADR fields (total)

SNDLAD

CHAR 70

   

Logical address of transmitter

REFINT

CHAR 14

   

Reference to transfer file

REFGRP

CHAR 14

   

Reference to message group

REFMES

CHAR 14

   

Reference to message

ARCKEY

CHAR 70

 

X

Document ID in the external system

CREDAT

DATS 08

 

X

IDoc creation date

CRETIM

TIMS 06

 

X

IDoc creation time

MESTYP

CHAR 06

X

X

Logical message category

IDOCTYP

CHAR 08

X

X

Name of basic IDoc category

CIMTYP

CHAR 08

   

Name of extension type

RCVPFC

CHAR 02

   

Partner function of receiver

SNDPFC

CHAR 02

   

Partner function of transmitter

SERIAL

CHAR 20

X

X

EDI/ALE: Serialization field

EXPRSS

CHAR 01

   

Override in inbound processing