Huge size of ARTMAS IDOC

[Former Member]

Hello gurus,

We are facing an issue in trasmiting generic articles(MARA-ATTYP = 01) along with all its variants via outbound ARTMAS IDOC(Transaction BD10). Some of the articles have around 40-50 variants. When such generic articles are transmitted via BD10, the size of IDOC is too huge for middleware to handle.

These IDOCs fail at the middleware end as the XML file is too huge for them to handle.

Do we have any standard functionality which wouldallow us to split the IDOC data into smaller chunks and transmit the same.

Any pointers to this issue would be a great help!

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Mohini

Edited by: Mohini Shewale on Feb 12, 2009 1:30 PM

[bjoern_panter]

Hi Mohini,

what does it mean, the IDOC is too big ?

Which segments have the biggest numbers?

With a generic article you have

1 MARA segment for generic article

and 40 MARAs for the variants.

Which middleware is not able to handle this size?

Do you really need all the data in the IDOC? Maybe you can filter some segments like MBEW or MARD to make it smaller.

Or you reduce some fields per segment.

You can filter it in distribution model transaction BD64.

regards

Björn

Edited by: Björn Panter on Feb 12, 2009 2:22 PM

[Former Member]

Thanks for the help. The information was very useful.