Help With IDOC Change Pointers

Question

Hi guys,
I'm trying an IDOC to file scenario. The scenario is working fine. I have activated change pointers for my IDOC. My understanding was that if there will be any change in my master tables, then because of the activated change pointers, the IDOC will be generated automatically. But in my case, for eg if i'm inserting any new record say Vendor data, no new IDOC is generated. For sending IDOC i have to use bd14 to send my IDOC explicitly.
Is my idea of change pointers wrong???Or am i missing some setting, so that the IDOC should be generated automatically???
Please help me on this guys...
Regards
Varun

Answer 1

<b>Automatic generation of IDOC when we change the MASTER DATA:</b>
<b>Change Pointers:</b>
Change documents are working based on change document technique which
tracks changes made to the key documents (Material Master, Customer Master,
Vendor Master.Etc) in SAP.
Changes made to the keydocuments are recorded in the change document Header
table i.e. CDHDR and Item table CDPOS, Additional change pointers are written
in the BDCP and BDCPS tables.
Change pointers technique is used to initiate the outbound process automatically
when master data is created or changed.
A standard program RBDMIDOC is sechuled to run on periodic basis to evaluate the change pointers for a message type and starts the ALE process for distributing the Masterdata to the appropriate destination. 
'Object' is collection of fields of different database tables. T.code for creating an object
is SCDO.
<b><u>Configuration for Change Pointers:</u></b>
1. BD61 Active change pointers generally
     - Check the checkbox "Change pointers activated -generally"
     - Save it
2. BD50 Active change pointers for Message Type
Message Type     Active
MATMAS              Check the check box
3. SCDO Change Document Objects
     - Check whether the "MATERIAL" is available in the object list.      
4. BD52 Maintain Table Views
-     Enter the Message type "MATMAS" and press enter.
For example
OBJECT     TABLE NAME     FIELD NAME
MATERIAL     MARA     BISMT
5. BD60 Additional data for message types:
For example:
Message Type                Function Module                         Table
MATMAS                 MASTERIDOC_CREATE_SMD_MATMAS        MARA
6. WE21 Port
7. WE20 Partner Profile
8.  BD64 Distribution Model
as michal said we have to use RBDMIDOC program.for executing this program we need to give message type like
MATMAS or
DEBMAS or
CREMAS
depending on your requirement.
go to SE38 tcode
--- copy RBDMIDOC to zprogram(i'e., ZRBDMIDOC)
---create variant
use this zprogram(ZRBDMIDOC) in BACKGROUND SCHEDULING SM36
<u>STEPS IN BACKGROUND SCHEDULING:</u>
Use tcode SM36
Click Job wizard in the button set
Click Continue
Enter Job name and press continue
Select ABAP program and press Continue
enter Program name and press continue
and again press Continue
set Schedule type immediately and continue
Select periodic job checkbox, press continue
Select none of the above and click on other periods – give one-minute and then press create
Press continue and then press complete.
recently i did this requirement
if u have any doubts plz let me know
Best Regards,
Srikanth     
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