Extract change documents

Change documents represent a special document type in the SAP  R/3 system. These documents are stored in the CDHDR (change header) and CDPOS (change item) tables. As these tables are structured in the same way as the other document header and document tables in the R/3 system, the configuration structure can be used to extract data from the change document tables with no changes.

The configuration for extracting data from the change document tables must be designed in such a way that data is extracted from the CDHDR change header table before any other tables.

There are two ways to extract change documents.