Date and Data Transactions

SAP is a system with a very high level of data integrity. To maintain this data integrity, the SAP system maintains and manages all data records, changes, system audit trails etc by date. For this reason, when a SAP BAPI is leveraged to retrieve or edit data, the system requires that a date parameter be passed into the BAPI to validate the transaction.

The advantage of this feature from the SAP perspective, is that the system can be "rolled back" at any time to a specific point in its history based on the transactional date presented. This feature also enables queries to be performed when a transactional date reference is provided.

The partial image provided below displays the data parameter for a randomly selected BAPI. The date parameter is identified by the 0 [numerical 0], included in the name.