IDOC- INTERMEDIATE DOCUMENT

IDOC CAN BE STORED IN CHARACTER FORMAT

FILE CAN BE STORED IN BINARY FORMAT

IDCOS ARE STORED IN DATABASE

Data is stored in character format instead of binary format

ABAP – Advanced Business Application Programming

ABAP (Advanced Business Application Programming) is the primary programming language

supported on the SAP NetWeaver ABAP application server platform and applications that run
on it, such as SAP ERP (formerly R/3), S/4HANA and CRM.