HOW TO SAP: IDOCS

BDOC and IDOC - What are they?

IDOCS are intermediate documents (normally in text file format) which are used as between SAP and non-SAP system. In a real work, a company may have different systems. So IDOCS are used as a vehicle encapsulate these data so these systems can exchange information.

Eg: During POS, IDOCS are generated and it includes price, number of items, description and etc. Then its transfer ASYNCHRONOUSLY to SAP system. Think of it like excel exporting a file to *.csv and then Outlook can read the *.csv file.

BDOCS on the other hand, is the CRM version of IDOCS. BAPI is another SAP intermediate documents but its used for SYNCHRONOUS transactions.

In the computer world, we called such activity as ELECTONIC DATA INTERCHANCE (EDI)

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Steps to troubleshoot IDOCS error status 51 and status 68

January 01, 2008 EDI, IDOCS,

How Basis troubleshoot IDOCS error error status 51 and status 68

Steps:

From Basis point of view, the technical problem that we have to look at is the transmission of the IDOC.

Firstly we execute BD87.

Enter IDOCS status 51 and press enter. You shall see below screen shot. As we can see, error
“Status 51? are application or data related error.

For status 68 error, we do the same thing. Use BD87 ‘ Enter 68 on IDOC status

As there is no error message. We double click ‘Without error message’ to see the IDOC details.

Go to status record to see what has happened with the IDOC process. As seen in the picture, the error 68 was because the IDOC had status 51 which is caused by application/data error.