Tracking of changes - no change documents

Hi,
We have a case where we need to pass to another system changes to records that are stored/created/changed in SAP. The challenge we have is that standard SAP does not create a change document for us to use as a way to quickly find out what has changed. What approach do you recommend in a case where changes need to be identified and pass over to another process, yet SAP does not store changes documents (CDHDR, CDPOS). Is usage of DBTABLOG and table logging a preferred method? Perhaps designing our own change determination logic and storing these in CDHDR/CDPOS (not sure it is possible)?
Thank you,
Mike

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Soumyaprakash Mishra wrote:
> even when the numebr of tables is small, you can do it easily with SCU3, what you need to check is if the tables are maintained for logging the change or not.
True. But: The problem with SCU3 is that more than 1000 tables have the flag set by default. So if you want to use this technique for only a few tables, some other 1000 tables will also be logged. Unless of course that you delete the flag in all not required tables.
P.S.: I just checked it in my development system: 2892 tables have the flag set by default. And this is just a small SAP_BASIS system. I guess it could be 5000 tables with the flag activated in a system with many applications installed.

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