Ascential PACK for SAP R/3

ABAP:- Advanced Business Application Programming. The
language developed by SAP for application development
purposes. All R/3 applications are written in ABAP

BAPI:- Business Application Programming Interface. A precisely
defined interface providing access to processes and data
in business application systems. BAPIs are defined as
API methods of SAP objects. These objects and their
methods are stored in the Business Objects Repository.

BOR:- Business Object Repository, which is the object-oriented
Repository in the SAP BW system. It contains, among
other objects, SAP Business Objects and their methods.

Business Object:-The representation of a business entity, such as an
employee or a sales order, in the SAP Enterprise system.

Control record:-A special administrative record within an IDoc, one for each IDoc. The control record contains a standard set of
fields that describe the IDoc as a whole.

ERP:- Enterprise Resource Planning business management
software.

IDoc:- Intermediate document. An IDoc is a report, that is, a
hierarchal package of related records, generated by R/3
Enterprise in an SAP proprietary format. An IDoc, whose
transmission is initiated by the source database,
exchanges data between applications.

IDoc type:-Named meta data describing the structure of an IDoc that
is shared across databases. It consists of a hierarchy of
segment record types.

MATMAS01:- An example of an IDoc type.

PACK:- Packaged Application Connection Kit. Accesses and
extracts data from and loads data to R/3 Enterprise.

PSA:- Persistent Staging Area.

R/3:- Real time/three tiers.

RFC:- Remote Function Call. The SAP implementation of RPC
(Remote Procedure Call) in ABAP. It calls a function
module that runs on a different system from the calling
function. The Remote Function Call can also be called
from within the same system, but usually the caller and
callee are dispersed.

RFM:- Remote Function Module. A function that belongs to a
BOR object type and has a BAPI method name.

SAP:- Systems, Applications, and Products in Data Processing.
SAP is a product of SAP AG, Walldorf, Germany.

SCM:- Supply Chain Management. The solution that tracks
financial, informational, and materials processes and
identifies processing exceptions.

Segment:- A record within an IDoc that is identified by a segment
number.

Segment type:-A named record definition for segments within an IDoc
that is one level in the hierarchy of segment types within
an IDoc type.

tRFC:- port Transactional RFC port.

Variant:- A collection of predefined criteria, similar to a group of
values used as parameters. Variants are attached to various processes used by
DataStage for the ABAP program process, for example. The ABAP Program referenced by the ABAP Program process itself has a variant attached to it.)