11.5.2 Data record
■ General
IDoc data record from the IDoc interface in the SAP R/3 System to an external system.
The data record for Release 4.0 has the structure EDI_DD40. Each IDoc consists of exactly one control record, which is followed by several data records. The data record has organizational information in the first fields, which determines the syntactical construction of an IDoc and assigns the data record to an IDoc. The record also contains structural information about the application data. The field SDATA includes application data (up to 1000 bytes), interpretation occurs field by field via the segment. The segment is in the field SEGNAM.