Setting status 68 out of AIF

Question

Hello,
sometimes it happens, that an action in AIF fails but the IDoc should not be reprocessed. Therefore we set the status 68 within conventional IDoc-Processing. But with implementation of AIF we don't se a possibility to set the status to 68.
The status 68 gave us the possibility to trace the IDocs and do some manual work according to the contents of the IDoc.
Example: We have a automatic Warehousesystem. As batches and Handling-Units are created within SAP the external system sends us an IDoc with the goods that were produced. Within SAP we are doing the goods-receipt and in the end we are sending another IDoc back to the trigger-system providing the Handling-Unit and the Batch-Information. Now the trigger-system is able to print the right labels that are belonging to the pallet next to the printer.
Sometimes the process fails, and the pallet is put aside. Necessary actions have to be done manualy as the production of the next pallet is already in action. Restarting the IDoc would cause the wrong label on the wrong pallet.
So far the rework-process could be done very easily by checking the IDocs with Status 68.
Is it possible to set the status 68 out of AIF?
best regards
Ignaz

Answer 1

Hi Ignaz,
with AIF2.0 SP3, a new functionality in AIF called Automatic Reprocessing is available.
So the Error Handling process was extended by automatic reprocessing,
triggered by certain error messages.
Example: If a business partner is locked, a job should be triggered to
reprocess this data message after a certain time (e.g. after 5 minutes, but
max. 3 times).
There are two new Transaction codes (/AIF/REP_AC_DEF and /AIF/REP_AC_ASGN) in the System for the configuration tables of the Automatic Reprocessing.
In the first configuration table /AIF/REP_AC_DEF it is possible to define the Reprocessing Action. One reprocessing action will be delivered for automatically restart the maintained error messages. The function module will be /AIF/RESTART.
In the second configuration table /AIF/REP_AC_ASGN it is possible to register the AIF
Interface and the corresponding single error messages (by message class and
number, e.g. R1/084 = “Business Partner &1 is Currently Being Processed By
&2”) for automatic reprocessing. In this configuration table, it will also
be possible to define a minimum waiting time, maximum waiting time and the
number of restart trials.
It is also being possible to select the status that the message should reach while “waiting” for the next restart; it can be either “I” (in process), “E” (application error) or “A” (technical error).
In your case you should select status “I” and then no alert should be generated. The alert is generated when the IDoc is still in error state after unsuccessful reprocessing of the error message.
I hope this will help you. 
Thanks and regards,
Nicole