topic Re: DEBMAS wrong number range booked in Application Development and Automation Discussions

DEBMAS wrong number range booked

christian_swonke — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 16:15:28 GMT

Hi experts,

I receiv DEBMAS IDocs from a external system.

We created for these customers a own account group with an own number range which can be changed externally.

The range is defined from 100000 to 200000 and the external system sends a customer with a customer number 2000 and also with the correct account group.

In my opinion an error should occur during idoc processing and the idoc should get an error status.

But the Idoc was booked without any information. And the customer has now a number outside the range.

What's wrong?

Is there any customizing to impact these?

If I create a customer manually it is not possible to use a number outside of the range!

Thanks for your help

Regards

Christian

Re: DEBMAS wrong number range booked

JL23 — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 17:07:13 GMT

The IDOC posts always with the number that is available in the IDOC itself.

That is a big advantage for all my migrations.

I know already the new number before the customer is created

And I dont have to switch number ranges from internal to external.

in general you can convert field values in this IMG path

Application Server > IDoc Interface / ALE >Modelling and Implementing Business Processes > Converting Data Between Sender and Receiver

With function module NUMBER_GET_NEXT you can retrieve a new number from the internal number range

Edited by: Jürgen L. on Oct 7, 2011 7:25 PM

Re: DEBMAS wrong number range booked

christian_swonke — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 12:03:10 GMT

Hi Jürgen,

But I can not use the interal/automatic numbering of SAP because the leading system is the external system.

And I have do decide if I receive an update for an customer or a new customer.

This means If have to check (implement) manually during processing the IDoc if the sended number is inisde the range and if not I have to set an error status. Is tihs true?

If I understand well, this means also if I use internally numbering and I send a customer with a number inside the IDoc will be booked with the number from IDoc and not with the next number of the range? Is this true?

Just a qestion for the convertions rules:

How can I define this?

Can I only set constant values for the fields or are there other possiblities?

Regards

Christian

Re: DEBMAS wrong number range booked

JL23 — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 15:20:15 GMT

 If I understand well, this means also if I use internally numbering and I send a customer with a number inside the IDoc will be booked with the number from IDoc and not with the next number of the range? Is this true?

yes this is true.

I have so far only used constant conversions

What is the reason for distrbution customers thru ALE and changing the customer number?

Re: DEBMAS wrong number range booked

christian_swonke — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 15:49:26 GMT

No I do not want to change the customer number.

How I already told, the external system is the leading system for the customer numbers.

The only thing what I want to have is a check, if the sent number from external system is outside the defined range of SAP, the IDoc (customer) should not be booked.

I know that this is a error of the external system because it should not sent wrong numbers but as far as I have seen it could happen.

So I think this check I have to implement...

Re: DEBMAS wrong number range booked

JL23 — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 18:30:28 GMT

You can filter the idocs, and only distribute those that have a number in the expected range