IDOCFlatToXmlConvertor

IDOCFlatToXmlConvertor:

In addition to the William’s blog:

http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/13743

Note: We need to maintain the NWA settings as mentioned in the blog

Once the settings are maintained most of the developers have issues while configuring the user module for IDoc flat to XML format conversion.

This blog mainly highlights about the steps & the IDoc flat file format should be for Inbound scenario.

The common issues which we can expect:

Issue1:

Error: com.sap.conn.idoc.IDocMetaDataUnavailableException: (3) IDOC_ERROR_METADATA_UNAVAILABLE: The meta data for the IDoc type "ORDERS05" is unavailable."

*Sol:

*This issue is because of the user doesn’t have necessary authorization which you have maintained while creating the destination to the backend system.
Make sure that user has the authorization object*”S_IDOCDEFT”* assigned.
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*Issue2:

*Module Exception 'com.sap.aii.af.idoc.exception.IDOCModuleException' found, cause:
java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: ""

Most of us think we have an issue with the data. Right, I agree. Let's suppose we have a mapping we can suggest formatNum function, but if we don’t have the mapping defined then still the issue persists. Based on the issue we all know that system is expecting value instead of null right.

*Sol:

* The issue is with the IDoc flat file which we receive from the third-party, In general for inbound scenario we can’t expect the Document Number & complete control segment data from them…

Note: If we use the same file for the inbound scenario as mentioned in the blog it works successfully but we don’t receive the file in the same format as same as mentioned in the blog.

For inbound scenario we can expect the control segment only with IDocType & MessageType data of that particular IDoc & for each Data segments there should segmentnumber & Parent Segment number defined. Sample file attached herewith…

Ref: http://help.sap.com/saphelp_me60/helpdata/en/1a/0e3842539911d1898b0000e8322d00/frameset.htm

I hope this will help you to understand more in detail about the file & the issues…

EDI_DC40 ORDERS05 ORDERS

E2EDK01 000001000000

E2EDK03 000002000000 00220120220

E2EDKA1 000003000000 AG I0180 824480123

E2EDK02 000004000000 001TEST04 20111230

E2EDKT1 000005000000 Z006E

E2EDKT2 000006000005 YTN

E2EDP01 000007000000 2 001 1200.0 EA EA 5.65 1 6780.0

E2EDP20 000008000007 1200.0 20120220 001

E2EDPA1 000009000007 WE 66

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