Hi Richard,
Thanks very much for your reply.
I will look into the function modules you suggested.
We still want to exploit the IDoc infrastructure since it provides good visibility of what has happened to messages. (The users want IDocs used rather than Proxies or web services since IDocs provide better visibility of what's going on.)
I am hoping if that I can simply find the http address of the "IDoc service" then I can simply send a correctly formatted IDoc text file to that. (I have seen documentation to this effect in the past, but am unable to locate it.)
Part 1 of my question has seemed to disappear from the forum. Maybe sending IDocs directly to a http address is not considered best practice.
Thanks again for your reply.
Cheers
Gerard