TREX - ECC 6.0 searches in different tables

Hi, have some search related questions:
- Is it possible to use TREX for combined searches from non-indexed tables in ECC 6.0 (where data is stored in different areas such as material, classification, BOM, customers, vendors, address data and so on)?
- Is it possible to mirror tables in ECC 6.0 to TREX via change pointers so the search data is "fresh" (the returned search result will be used in combination with other data and then stored back to ECC 6.0 from the NW portal)?
- Is it possible to have cross related search attributes (fields from material master, classification, bom, dms, address and so on) on the same tab in the sap standard search help (sap search help will be called from ABAP WebDynpro's)?
The main issue is to do combined searches with different combinations (number of input fields (10-20) related to different modules/areas) in ABAP WebDynpro. To do searches with outer table joins in tables without
keys and indexes seems not be doable.
/Brg Patrick Olsson

Hi lorenzo,
I have successfully installed ECC6.0 IDES SR2, i have found ECC-DIMP 6.0 LEVEL 6 in Support packs, please could you tell me that how can i activate IS-MILL in my server and what are the preconditions.
Thanks and Regards
ChandraB.

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h5.
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