What is data mapping in EDI?

Hi all,
Is 'data mapping' same as creating an FMD or different? Where can I get FMDs for a message type in SAP? Eg Edifact to IDoc or Idoc to ANSI x12??
Thanks,
Charles.

Hello Charles
Have a look at [http://service.sap.com/ale]:
ALE and EDI
EDI Applications
There you will find very useful documents about EDI mapping.
Regards
Uwe

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HI Experts,
Please explain abt:
1) What is Data Mapping
2) Some senarios like, SAP Data map with BW Data
3) Which case Data mapping Error while load occur & how to rectify it.
Ponits awarded. Thanks,
RR.

Hi,
For Mpping pls check the links......
For Source System Mapping
Re: Source System Mapping
Re: Source System Mapping
For " Settings for BI Statistics"
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04s/helpdata/en/8c/131e3b9f10b904e10000000a114084/frameset.htm
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/webinar?rid=/library/uuid/d09864c5-0bb0-2910-8e8a-a306a886dcd9
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/en/46/f9bd5b0d40537de10000000a1553f6/frameset.htm
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/5401ab90-0201-0010-b394-99ffdb15235b
/message/5117472#5117472 [original link is broken]
/message/4978537#4978537 [original link is broken]
Hope it is helps you.
Thanks & Regards,
santo

Data mapping

Hi guys,
what is data mapping? I don't think this is XI mappings.is this something related to EDI
Thanks
Sud

Sud,
It all depends on the context where u are using these terms. As per the XI Mappings there is nothing like data mapping.
In my client place they will call the Transformation document as Data Mapping sheet. It's nothing but the data mapping between the source and the target structure. I mean how the source structure need's to be transformed to the target will be defined in the data mapping sheet.
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>>1. explain about adaptor meta data &mapping templtes what does use with them?
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Just like you can reuse data types in different message types, you can also save parts of message mappings as Mapping Templates and reuse them elsewhere. Once you have saved a mapping template it serves as a copy template that you can then load into other message mappings and modify to fit your requirements.
>>2.what is exchange fault data and exchange log data under data types
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>>3.what are web as apart from 6.2 and 6.4?
The Web Application Server is a platform for efficient development and allows you to implement Web applications. It builds upon proven and stable application server
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>>4.describe about sap xi 3.0 like SP's what are types
check http://service.sap.com
>>5.about content
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is there any way around to do the data mapping from other system database to SAP B1
database without using field to field mapping?
ex: we want to migrate from other system to B1 we need to transfer their old data to a new one..and of course the database structure is not the same..and it would be a lot of task if we migrate their old PO to B1 (i'm thinking using field to field mapping so we must know the data structure from the old system and provide the information needed when we want migrate it to B1)
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hope u understand what i mean
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erick

Hi Erick,
I think, using DI API should be better.
I know that, all data in the database is not supported.
But, most simple idea is,
1. Get objects from old company database
2. review the data by SDK (validating and user field mapping)
3. add modified objects to new company database
This should be most same, and you can process many process automatically in process 2.
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How to map between child objects in a Siebel Data Map

Hello. I need to map a field from one child object to another child object using a Siebel Data Map.
Specifically, I have an Integration Object set up for FINS Group Policy with 2 child components (Action and Proposal). I want to map the Proposal's name to the Activity's Description. Here's the structure:
Policy (io)
-Name
-Action (io)
--Description
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Source Expression: [FINS Group Policy.Name]
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I tried these, but they don't work:
1)
Integration Component Map: Action-to_Action
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Target Field Name: Description
2)
Integration Component Map: Action-to_Action
Source Expression: [Proposal.PPSLFileName]
Target Field Name: Description
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Hi,
For your issue,you can use the 2nd point what u hv mentioned :-
Integration Component Map: Action-to_Action
Source Expression: [Proposal.PPSLFileName]
Target Field Name: Description
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User Rules in Data Mapping in SQL Developer Migration Workbench

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I was trying to add a User Mapping Rule in the Data Mapping, because the options provided where not entirely what I wanted.
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Barry
I don't quite understand what you mean by not been the same
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Data transfer using EDI from one SAP system to other SAP system

Dear all,
I understand that i should use normal ale-idoc features to transfer data from one sap to other sap system.
but can i transfer those idocs using EDI from one SAP to other SAP system

Hello,
surely you can do so.
EDI means that you transfer data in standardized EDI-formats. To get the data at the source into that formats you normally use an EDI-Converter, which maps the IDOC-format into the EDI-format. Then you send the data in EDI-format to an EDI-converter at the target. There's the reverse mapping. You map the EDI-Format into IDOC-format and book these IDOCs into SAP.
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Data Maps & Custom Collectors

Hi Guys,
I am fairly new to the development side of the collectors for Sentinel,
and have what may be a total beginners question but I've tried the docs
and feel I am getting no where with an answer so hopefully you can help
out
So I am constructing an event from within the collector, I have read
that its best practice to try to use maps where possible so I am trying
to do this. If I hard code for example e.TargetUserID = <the parsed
string that I have>, then that works, but I want to try to make use of
the Rec2Evt.map as most of the data that I am populating at this point
is listed in here.
What I have done is to add into the the following:
Code:
Collector.prototype.initialize = function() {
this.MAPS.Rec2Evt = new DataMap(this.CONFIG.collDir + "/Rec2Evt.map");
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Code:
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instance.SEND_EVENT = true;
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Within the Rec2Evt.map file it has the default list of Sentinel Event
Fields and I have appended a record for TargetIP: TargetIP,testIP
Have I missed any obvious steps out? What I was expecting to happen was
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should have the value 123.4.5.6, when I look in either the ESM or the
Sentinel 7 webUI I dont see this field getting set, other fields which I
manually set are being set correctly.
This is the first time that I have tried to use the data maps so I
assume I am doing something wrong and any pointers you guys have would
be great,
Thanks
alanforrest
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Hi Alan,
I'm not quite sure what you mean by "3 or 4 attributes", but here are
some guidelines:
Part of the Collector development process is to make a best-effort
attempt to parse out semantically distinct fields from the input and map
them to the Sentinel schema in a normalized way. Sometimes this is easy
- there's an IP address that's the target of a connection, extract it
and map it to TargetIP (TargetIP should already exist in Rec2Evt.map and
you just need to list the 'rec' attribute into which you parsed that
target IP). Sometimes this requires a little more work, for example
timestamps and whatnot that need normalization. Sometimes this is really
tricky, and you can't find a nice match to a Sentinel schema field.
Let's break this down into the following categories:
1) Simple 1:1 matches, like the IP address example above
2) 1:N matches, where you need to subparse a bit. An example might be a
path like C:\WINDOWS\system32\etc\hosts; this would map to
TargetDataName = 'hosts', TargetDataContainer = '/windows/system32',
TargetDataNamespace = 'c' (note that since Windows is case-insensitive,
everything has been lowercased and the path separators normalized - we
provide some utility flags and methods for this in the latest SDK which
will be out soon.
3) Mapped matches: in this scenario, you have a field maybe that
indicates severity using some arbitrary proprietary scale, and you need
to map this to Sentinel's 0-5 Severity. In this case it's good to use a
KeyMap, put all your possible input values in the LHC, and then map them
to Sentinel Severities in the RHC. Then you can use lookup() to look up
your input and map it to the correct output, put that output in a 'rec'
attribute, and then list that attribute in Rec2Evt.map (in this example
on the RHS after 'Severity,'
4) No schema match, doesn't need to be correlated: An example here
might be "session type", which is something that Windows provides but
that we don't (yet) have a dedicated schema field for (although we are
considering it). Let's say you want to record that information in the
event, but you don't need to correlate on that value. In that case you
can use the 'add2EI()' method to add an JSON NVP to the
ExtendedInformation field, something like 'LoginType: interactive'.
5) No schema match, need to correlate: This is the trickiest case,
where you can't find a place to put your data but you need it in a
separate field so you can correlate on it. For this scenario you can use
one of the many unallocated ReservedVarXX fields. What you need to do is
pick an unused field, add it to Rec2Evt.map, and map your data to it.
The trick is that you can't guarantee that some other Collector is not
using that field for a different purpose, so you have to be a bit more
careful when writing correlation rules etc to filter for your data
only.
In other words, the only attributes you should ever be adding to
Rec2Evt.map are ReservedVar fields. BTW, the event schema is fully
documented here:'Sentinel Event Schema'
(http://www.novell.com/developer/plug...nt_schema.html)
but note that not all fields are present in all platforms.
DCorlette
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Transcational data mapping

Hello,
while doing the transcational data mapping for open sales order and so on, where and how do we migrate the price of the material and the pricing values.
regards

in our case there are about 4000 sales orders, so manual does not make sense, question is, when we are doing the transcational data mapping, the pricing of the open sales orders has to migrated, now from what i understand , i have to make the same kind of spread sheet for upload which involves, ( table #, conditon type, s.org, div..........) which i would be making for master data upload for pricing, so if it is the same, why i have to do for transcational data also.
correct me if i am wrong, as i am trying to understand this, master data is uploaded first, and then the transcational data, so if masterdata is already there, why need transcational data for condition records.
i would appreciate the answers as i am in immidiate need of it.

Master Data Mapping

Hello Experts,
I am in the process of designing an infocube and i was a little confused about the 2 char hierarchy and wanted to clear my confusion on it.
In the flat file, we can have data either at account level or account group level. So i was thinking of having 2 characteristics - account and account group in the infocube.
But how about the master data mapping between account and account group? where would that be taken care of ?
Ex: Flat File
Year, Curr, CoCd, A/C, CC, Period, Amount
2006, USD, 1000, 38001001, 456700, 1, 100
2006, USD, 1000, 38001002, 456700, 1, 100
2006, USD, 1000, 0380, 45600, 1, 200 -
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All answers would be duly rewarded with points.
Thanks,
Nandita

When i am saying account level, i meant account.
The data in the flat file will be either at account/account group. So i guess i have 2 options for design:
1. Have account as a characteristic(dimension) in Infocube and then have account group as an attribute to it and have 2 characteristic hierarchy ( account and account group).
( However for this i might have to delete the account group info in the flat file)
Or
2. Have account and account group as characteristics ( dimensions ) in infocube and then have another infoobject ( ZACCMAP ) as an attribute to account group which would have the master data mapping between account and account group and the hierarchy would be on 1 characteristic (account group).
Oliver and Ravi - correct me if i am wrong or what's the best approach to go with ?
Thanks,
Nandita

Business scenario for mapping XML-EDI

Hi,
Can anyone explain me the process of mapping xml-edi to SAP and validations with respect to business.
An example could really help.
Thanks

The inbound xml file contains data that needs to be put into a format that sap can understand. There are several ways to do this. You can use XI or any other transaltion utility. Alternately, your xml file can be converted using custom programs using XSLT as a translation tool.
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Hi gurus what is the difference between EDI & ALE.

hi gurus what is the difference between EDI & ALE.

HI,
EDI is a technique used to communicate business and information transactions between computer systems of different companies and organizations. These transactions include such documents as purchase orders, invoices, inquiries, planning, acknowledgements, pricing, order status, scheduling, test results, shipping and receiving, payments, and financial reporting
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The EDI interface is intended to connect an EDI subsystem with the SAP system. EDI subsystems perform the following tasks related to EDI processing:
1·Conversion of data·
2.Message and Interchange Handling.
3.Communication·
4.Administration of partner profiles·
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EDI u2013 Benefits
Improves data accuracy u2013
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Lowers personnel costs-
EDI can help companies reduce the need for personnel involved in orders and accounting processing. Speeds up information exchange- EDI systems can shorten the lead time between receipt and fulfillment of orders. When scheduling information is transmitted with ordering data, companies can plan production more accurately and thus reduce stock investments.
Reduces technical complexity related to data interchange u2013
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Application Link Enabling
ALE Objectives u2013 ALE incorporates controlled exchange of data messages ensuring data consistency across loosely coupled applications. ALE comprises of three layers. Application Services Distribution Services Communication Services
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- Maintaining the Access Sequences
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