Max. no of records in an Idoc

Question

Hi all,
Can somebody please tell me, the Max. no of records that can be hold in an Idoc?
Thanks in Advance,
Soumya.

Answer 1

You can use Maintaining Control Parameters for Data Transfer
parameter to control the maximum number of data records ... you determine the number of data Idocs after which an Info IDoc is to be sent
It also depends on the following.
Maximum size of the data package
When transferring data into BW, the individual data records are sent in packages of variable size.  You can use this parameter to control how large such a data package typically is.
If no entry is maintained, the data with a standard setting of 10,000 k Byte per data package is transferred. However, the required memory depends on not only the data package size setting, but also the width of the transfer structure, the required memory of the affected extractor, and, for large data packages, the number of data records in the package.
    Maximum no. of rows in a data package
With large data packages, the required memory depends a good deal on the number of data records that are transferred with this package. You can use this parameter to control the maximum number of data records the data package is to contain.
By default, the system transfers a maximum of 100,000 records per data package.
The maximum main memory demand per data package is approximately 2 X ’Max. Rows’ X 1000 bytes.
    Frequency
By specifying a frequency, you determine the number of data Idocs after which an Info IDoc is to be sent. In other words, how many data IDocs are described by a single Info-IDoc.
By default, the frequency has been set to 1. This means that, in this case, an Info IDoc follows after each data IDoc. In general, you should choose a frequency between 5 and 10. If not, do not choose one above 20.
The larger the package size of a data IDoc, the smaller you should set the frequency. As a result, you should get information about the data load status during the data upload in relatively short spaces of time.
You can see in the BW Monitor from each info IDoc whether the load process was successful or not. The traffic light is green if this is the case for all data Idocs described by an InfoIDoc.  Info Idocs contain information about whether or not the data Idocs were correctly uploaded.
Maximum number of parallel processes for the data transfer
An entry in this field is only required as of release 3.1I.
Enter a value greater than 0. The maximum no. of parallel processes has been set to 2 by default. The optimal choice of the parameter depends on the configuration of the application server you are using for the data transfer.
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Cheers,
Chandra Sekhar.