topic Re: Previous years' data in Application Development and Automation Discussions

Previous years' data

narendra_bhat2 — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:32:21 GMT

Hi Gurus

We are on SAP 4.7 in a post go-live environment with only FI & CO modules.

My client has just been demerged from its parent company. In the old organization, my client was a company code too. We have done the configuration as it was in the old organization & the client is using the new configurations & have completed 3 month-end closings.

At the time of go-live, we did all the initial postings for GL, AR, AP & Assets. The uploads were fine & without errors.

Now, the client wants to import all the data from year 2002 onwards with the document numbers / check numbers etc. intact in the new production server as the parent company would be prohibiting access to the old server. In short, the client expects us to transfer all the data in an as-is manner from the old server to the new server without compromising on the document numbers, check numbers etc.

We are writing a BDC using FB01 to transfer all the data from 2002 onwards. We made the account document number as external as the client wants the entire data in an as-is manner. Is there any functional module or BAPI using external number ranges by which we can carry out the postings? We tried with the standard FM but it gives an error due to external document numbering.

Regards,

Re: Previous years' data

andreas_mann3 — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:47:58 GMT

very bad idea to transfer old FI-documents

Better us an archiv-solution like <a href="http://www.pbs-software.com/PBS-Startseite.1.0.html?&L=1">PBS</a>

hope that helps

Andreas

Re: Previous years' data

narendra_bhat2 — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 03:28:47 GMT

I know that it is a bad idea to transfer old FI documents. But the client has not carried out the document clearing & would like to clear it against those original documents. Archival will not allow clearing & will only archive cleared items. Open items are ignored by the archival process. We had tried out archival as an option but had to let go because it ignored the open items.

Thanks