I love ALE.  It is super-powerful and, once you get the hang of it, is a snap to configure.  Recently, I was setting up an HRMD_A interface for my client.  Everything was going smoothly until I ran into a requirement to filter out the social security number (PERID), birthdate (GBDAT), and gender (GESCH) for privacy reasons.  All of these fields are in segment E1P0002.  Initially, I thought that this requirement was easy enough to accomplish.  I just created a IDOC reduction in transaction BD53 and filtered out the three fields.  I soon found out that while entire segments were getting reduced from the IDOC as configured, the individually reduced fields were still showing up in the IDOC.  What’s going on?!?
[Read more...]