SAP ABAP IMG Activity COMMODITY_DF (Define Commodities)
Hierarchy
SAP_APPL (Software Component) Logistics and Accounting
   TR (Application Component) Treasury
     FTDF (Package) Treasury: Datafeed TR-TM-TM-TO-DF
IMG Activity
ID COMMODITY_DF Define Commodities  
Transaction Code S_ALR_87007868   IMG Activity: COMMODITY_DF 
Created on 19981222    
Customizing Attributes COMMODITY_DF   Define Commodities 
Customizing Activity COMMODITY_DF   Define commodities 
Document
Document Class SIMG   Hypertext: Object Class - Class to which a document belongs.
Document Name COMMODITY_DF    

In this step you define how to import commodities via the external partner program of your datafeed provider.

Example

Notation:

Commodity name:    GOLD (Gold)

Type:    CLOSE (Closing price)

Relevant datafeed notation (example for Dow Jones, April 1997):

Instrument name:    GGOLD

Data source:    QFRecord

Instrument property:    CLOSE

Requirements

There are no prerequisites for entering commodities.

The "Realtime price/rate supply" function operates on the assumption that your external partner program can operate in a realtime environment. Ask your datafeed provider if your external partner program meets this requirement and if it can provide market data from the system after one request.

Activities

Define how you wish to import your indexes via the external partner program using the datafeed. You can define whether the prices are only supplied upon explicit request from the SAP system, or whether they should be supplied on a real-time basis via the datafeed provider's external partner program.

Further notes

Note that the Treasury module does not currently use commodities. However, you can import commodity prices via the datafeed and transfer them to other industry solutions (such as IS-Oil). In this case, you have to use the commodity names and price types of the other industry solution in the translation table in order to avoid transport problems. At present, you cannot display a price history in the system, since the indicator Save market data in R/3 permanently is not activated. If necessary, you can record the exchange rate history in the other industry solution.

Business Attributes
ASAP Roadmap ID 255   Create Interfaces 
Mandatory / Optional 3   Nonrequired activity 
Critical / Non-Critical 2   Non-critical 
Country-Dependency A   Valid for all countries 
Assigned Application Components
Documentation Object Class Documentation Object Name Current line number Application Component Application Component Name
SIMG COMMODITY_DF 0 HLA0009209 O I070004705  
Maintenance Objects
Maintenance object type C   Customizing Object 
Assigned objects
Customizing Object Object Type Transaction Code Sub-object Do not Summarize Skip Subset Dialog Box Description for multiple selections
V_DFCU05 V - View SM30 0000000000 Call view maintenance 
History
Last changed by/on SAP  19981222 
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