SAP ABAP Data Element CHNUM (ALE channel number)
Hierarchy
SAP_BASIS (Software Component) SAP Basis Component
   BC-MID-ALE (Application Component) ALE Integration Technology
     SALE (Package) Application Link Enabling
Basic Data
Data Element CHNUM
Short Description ALE channel number  
Data Type
Category of Dictionary Type D   Domain
Type of Object Referenced     No Information
Domain / Name of Reference Type NUM4    
Data Type NUMC   Character string with only digits 
Length 4    
Decimal Places 0    
Output Length 4    
Value Table      
Further Characteristics
Search Help: Name    
Search Help: Parameters    
Parameter ID   
Default Component name    
Change document    
No Input History    
Basic direction is set to LTR    
No BIDI Filtering    
Field Label
  Length  Field Label  
Short 10 Channelno. 
Medium 15 Channel number 
Long 20 ALE channel number 
Heading CNum 
Documentation

Definition

A channel number is a message attribute. All messages whose channel number and object type are the same are serialized in the Tables TBD53 to TBD56.

This ensures that IDocs are processed in the target system in the same order they were created in the source system.

History
Last changed by/on SAP  19990505 
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