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Asset does not exist

Max2 — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 14:41:30 GMT

Hi guys,

I would like to read out the activation data of an assest from transaction AS02 in Powershell, but unfortunately the scripts tells me that the asset does not exist, but when I use it in SAP GUI I find the asset.

[Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFile("C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\assembly\GAC_64\sapnco\v4.0_3.1.0.42__50436dca5c7f7d23\sapnco.dll") > $Null [Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFile("C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\assembly\GAC_64\sapnco_utils\v4.0_3.1.0.42__50436dca5c7f7d23\sapnco_utils.dll") > $Null Function Get-Destination { #-Connect paramters----------------------------------------------- $cfgParams = New-Object SAP.Middleware.Connector.RfcConfigParameters #---TEST--- $cfgParams.Add("NAME", "SAP") $cfgParams.Add("ASHOST", "xx.xx.xxx.xx") $cfgParams.Add("SYSNR", "00") $cfgParams.Add("CLIENT", "100") $cfgParams.Add("USER", "user") $cfgParams.Add("PASSWD", "password") Return [SAP.Middleware.Connector.RfcDestinationManager]::GetDestination($cfgParams) } #-Sub Invoke-SAPFunctionModule---------------------------------------- $destination = Get-Destination [SAP.Middleware.Connector.IRfcFunction]$bapiChangeAsset = $destination.Repository.CreateFunction("BAPI_FIXEDASSET_GETDETAIL") $bapiChangeAsset.SetValue("COMPANYCODE", "0001") $bapiChangeAsset.SetValue("ASSET", "31745") $bapiChangeAsset.Invoke($destination) [SAP.Middleware.Connector.IRfcStructure]$return = $bapiChangeAsset.GetStructure("RETURN") Write-Host $return.GetValue("MESSAGE")

Re: Asset does not exist

RaymondGiuseppi — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 17:49:00 GMT

You pass the asset in an external format. During SAP GUI session, it is implicitly converted to internal format, but not during background processing (without GUI)

The domain of asset number (ANLN1) carries the ALPHA conversion exit routine.
So you can convert (on SAP size) your external format to internal format using FM CONVERSION_EXIT_ALPHA_INPUT ('31745' -> '000000031745') - In your case for an external call, you should use BAPI_CONVERSION_EXT2INT1 (external to internal format convertor)

Re: Asset does not exist

Max2 — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 09:43:48 GMT

Hey thanks for your help but online I can't find much about BAPI_CONVERSION_EXT2INT1 and on the support page also finds what helps me so I tried to delete the whole thing like this

$ItemAnlage = 31745 $ItemAnlage = "0000000" + $ItemAnlage $destination = Get-Destination [SAP.Middleware.Connector.IRfcFunction]$bapiChangeAsset = $destination.Repository.CreateFunction("BAPI_FIXEDASSET_GETDETAIL") $bapiChangeAsset.SetValue("COMPANYCODE", "0001") $bapiChangeAsset.SetValue("ASSET", $ItemAnlage) $bapiChangeAsset.SetValue("SUBNUMBER", "0") $bapiChangeAsset.Invoke($destination)

Unfortunately this did not work and now it tells me that the attachment 000000031745 does not exist

Re: Asset does not exist

RaymondGiuseppi — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 10:12:17 GMT

Subnumber is a character field of length 4, try to replace "0" with "0000".

Re: Asset does not exist

Max2 — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 10:33:37 GMT

Thanks, now it works

Re: Asset does not exist

RaymondGiuseppi — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 11:56:15 GMT

Small sample in Abap for conversion BAPI external format to internal format

MOVE 'BUS1022' TO CONVERSION_LS-OBJTYPE. MOVE 'GETDETAIL' TO CONVERSION_LS-METHOD. MOVE 'ASSET' TO CONVERSION_LS-PARAMETER. MOVE '1234' TO CONVERSION_LS-EXT_FORMAT. APPEND CONVERSION_LS TO CONVERSION_LT. MOVE 'SUBNUMBER' TO CONVERSION_LS-PARAMETER. MOVE '0' TO CONVERSION_LS-EXT_FORMAT. APPEND CONVERSION_LS TO CONVERSION_LT. CALL FUNCTION 'BAPI_CONVERSION_EXT2INT1' DESTINATION LV_BACKEND TABLES DATA = CONVERSION_LT RETURN = RETURN. LOOP AT CONVERSION_LT INTO CONVERSION_LS. MOVE CONVERSION_LS-INT_FORMAT TO <INTVALUE>. " 000000001234 and 0000 MOVE CONVERSION_LS-CONV_LEN TO <LENGTH>. " 012 et 004 ENDLOOP.

You can find the requesed values in transaction BAPI