Reprocessing and Deletion of IDOC

IDOCs are Intermediate Documents which are used for the communication between two SAP systems which can be having the encoded data which SAP system only can read.

IDOCs will be getting transferred between SAP systems and will sometime fails due to the lack of resources or due to queue stuck etc.

In such situations, we'd like to reprocess the idocs. Below are the steps which shows us to re-process/flag the IDOCs in SAP system.

How to reprocess an Idoc:

1. Go to transaction BD87

2. Enter Idoc number, and make sure the dates are correct

3. Click the Execute button or press F8

4. To reprocess, select the Idoc status within the "IDOC in inbound processing" tree.

5. Click the Process button

6. the subsequent screen will give the status of the IDOC and wheter it processed sucessfully

How to flag an Idoc to be deleted:

1. Go to transaction BD87

2. Enter Idoc number, and make sure the dates are correct

3. Click the Execute button or press F8

4. To delete, select the Idoc status within the tree and click on EDIT -> RESTRICT AND PROCESS

5. Click the Execute button

6. Un-check the Bkgd Processing checkbox.

7. Click the Execute button

8. Click the Delete Flag button.