IDoc Deep Validation

Key Information

!This is an early release of inbound and outbound IDoc capture and replay capability. It is in early ramp-up and customers are invited to trial it with support from Basis Technologies to ensure it delivers the expected business results.

IDoc’s are a fundamental part of many customers SAP systems allowing data to be integrated to other systems in an asynchronous manner and in a commonly understood format. IDoc’s represent a significant portion of the global supply chain between various parties exchanging information automatically between systems.

When these IDoc’s are generated by the system (whether through a SAP GUI dialog transaction or typically a batch job), then the Testimony capture code will automatically record them and associate them as linkages with the various scripts/steps which created them.

In the screen-shot below, you can see the IDoc as a linkage for step 4 in the script. This is the step that generated the oubtound IDoc.

IDoc investigate screen

*The green indicator next to the linkage in the lower left part of the screen indicates that the validation of the recorded IDoc with what happened in the playback has passed.

When the linkage in the lower left is selected, the right hand side appears with the recorded/expected IDoc shown on the left and the playback/actual IDoc on the right. You are able to see the IDoc control record (header) of each and the underlying segments and segment fields.

Recording inbound and outbound IDocs

To capture both inbound and oubtound IDoc’s in your source system, you need to activate the two IDoc related recording enhancements. This is detailed in the following earlier section on General Enhancements -> Enhancements.

Once captured in the recording, these linkages will be visible as either “Inbound IDoc” or “Outbound IDoc” linkages in the Business Transaction Linkage Explorer. After transferring to the Repository, these same linkages will be found within the Test Script Linkage Explorer.

Playing back and comparing IDocs

During the playback, the same IDocs will be captured and then compared to what happened in the recording. You must activate the playback enhancement to achieve this otherwise you will always have an “IDoc missing” failure reason since no IDoc’s will be captured at all.

Additional Notes

You can deactivate the comparison of the IDoc segment data if you expect to see differences between the IDoc data in the recording versus the playback. This would typically happen if such fields as time-stamps, unique identifiers or GUID’s are contained within the segment data. This parameter is explained in the earlier section on Configuration Parameters.

!Note that you are now able to “suppress” certain fields from the comparison of the expected IDoc and the actual IDoc. These configuration must be entered into the central system, table /BTI/AUT_C_CHIS. This allows you to either include or exclude certain IDoc segment fields from the comparison for a particular IDoc message type.