If it ever happened to you, when trying to generate IDocs, to get the information message “No partner exists with the name ”, type ”” (Fig 1), you may want to define a “Partner System”.

Don’t panic ! It is quite easy. Defining a “Partner System” will then allow you to select your IDocs for processing by “Partner System”, which can be set by project, in order to allow different teams to work on different IDocs at the same time for example.

To define a “Partner System”, go to the LSMW menu (Fig 2), and go in the “IDoc Inbound Processing” option from “Settings” menu (Fig 3), or use keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+F1.

Once in the “IDoc Inbound Processing: Preparatory Measures” screen (Fig 4), just fill in a “File port”, a “Partn.Type”, and a “Partner No.” (Fig 5), at least.

You can of course lookup (or define new) ports and partners by clicking on the appropriate button, or by going to transaction WE21 to define a “File port”, and WE20 to define a new “Partner No.”. You will more likely not have to define a new “Partn.Type”, as they are standard.

You can then click on “Activate IDoc Inbound Processing” (Fig 5) in order to save your values, and then generate your IDocs.

When processing them, using for example BD87, do not forget to enter the right “Partner System” (Fig 6), LSMW in my example – you would otherwise select all IDocs created on the system.