change pointers concept in MDM

[Former Member]

hi to all,

Can anyone explain the change pointer concept in MDM or R/3 how is it related to MDM.

Thanks in advance

Regards

MM

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

There is no change pointer concept in MDM, but ofcourse you have concept of workfow in MDM Data Manager which you can set for Record ADD, Record Update, Record Import and Manual.

change pointer concept in MDM or R/3 how is it related to MDM

There is concept of change pointer in R/3 it means nothing but triggering idoc for change and newly created records automatically.

Suppose you trigger idoc having 100 records from R/3 to MDM.

now aftter some time you created two new records and change 3 of your existing records out of 100 in R/3, So instead trigerring idoc again having 102 records, you have concept of change pointer that you only want to send these 3 changed records and two newly created records automatically as you dnt need to send again these rest of 97 already existing records into MDM. So this change pointer trigger idoc having records automatically to MDM for change and Newly created records.

Hope it will Help you,

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Mandeep Saini

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thanks for the answer . is there any reference docuemnt explainng how the change pointers is triggerd and data is exported to MDM

Thanks in advance

Regards

MM

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

If you have Service Market Place ID, then you can download Use_Case_MDM_CLNT_EXTR.pdf file.

With this SAP Note-1035601, you will find the above mentioned PDF File. It states the use of change Pointers.

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Mandeep Saini

[michael_theis · Accepted solution]

Hello Mandeep,

> There is no change pointer concept in MDM

This is not correct. With MDM Syndicator you can distribute only changed records as well. This means that MDM is using a change pointer concept, but it is completely hidden from the user. This is different to the change pointer concept in R/3.

Best regards

Michael

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Michael,

Even i was aware of that syndicating records using "Supress Unchanged Records" but i thought its not exactly refer to Pointer concept as there we dnt have any pointer and this is different to the change pointer concept in R/3 . Offcourse, we can correlate it with pointer as we send records for change and new created records from MDM too.

Thanks,

Mandeep Saini