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Purpose

Application Link Enabling (ALE) enables you to exchange data within a system group. You can use ALE to send Customizing data, transaction data, and master data to other systems as IDocs. This is implemented as part of a distribution model.

Application Link Enabling provides you with a range of administration tools: The activities are divided into the following areas:

Tools

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

     Some of the activities listed below are performed in Customizing (IMG). For the ALE-specific section, call transaction SPRO and choose SAP Reference IMG ® SAP NetWeaver ® Application Server ® IDoc Interface/ Application Link Enabling (ALE).

Note

The individual sections of the IMG provide you with background information and specific instructions for each activity. Here you will also find information about the required settings.

Prerequisites

Perform the activities listed here before you start to use ALE:

Structure linkTransporting Customizing Data from Maintenance Systems into Receiver Systems

Structure linkSerialization of Messages

Structure linkConverting Data Between Sender and Receiver

Periodic Tasks

If you use change pointers to distribute master data, you must perform the following activities at regular intervals:

Structure linkPeriodic Master Data Distribution (Change Pointer)

Tasks on Demand

You need to perform the following tasks if errors or inconsistencies occur in ALE communication:

Structure linkMonitoring IDoc Processing and tRFC Communication

Structure linkRecovering Data (Point-In-Time Recovery) in ALE Systems

Other Tasks

Structure linkOptimizing ALE Performance

Structure linkConverting Logical Systems (Assigning Unique System Names)

 

 

 

 

 

 

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