Dump RFC_CONVERSION_FIELD

[Former Member]

Hi Experts,

We have upgraded from R/3 4.7 to ECC 6.0.

The BW system ( Non-unicode ) while extracting data from ECC 6.0 (Unicode) system gives an error :-

Error occurred in the source system. Conversion error between two character sets.

At the same time, a dump is generated in ECC 6.0 system (Unicode ) :- RFC_CONVERSION_FIELD.

Conversion error "ab_rfcImplode" from character set 4102 to character set 1100.

The problems seems to be because of a Non-Unicode system trying to access data from a Unicode system. We only have English language.

Any pointers towards resoluton of the above issue would be highly appreciated.

Thanks,

Best regards,

Prashant

[nils_buerckel]

Hi Prashant,

please have a look at SAP note 814707, maybe this one solves your problem ?

Best regards,

Nils Buerckel

SAP AG

[Former Member]

Hi Nils,

As per the note we have identified the record because of which we get the error.

Material no. VAITMX0 is converted as VAITM X#.

Seems that anything after X is treated as a binary code the way it was used in R/3 4.7, 4.6c etc..

Solution mentioned in the note is to update code page but since we are using only English language not sure whether we need to update code page etc.

Thanks,

Best regards,

Prashant

[nils_buerckel]

Hi Prashant,

as far as I see it, a proper view is only possible with detailed analysis of the data (source and target).

But I think this is already ongoing via SAP development support.

Best regards,

Nils Buerckel

SAP AG

[Former Member]

Hi,

Yes thats right, OSS message has been raised. Will update the solution as soon as we find it.

Thanks,

Best regards,

Prashant

[erdem_sephanelioglu]

Hi Prashant,

Do you remember what was the solution?

Thanks

Eddy.

[Former Member]

Hi Eddy,

Yes. The problem was due to special character => Hyphen(-). For few material nos. we had hyphen in between. Those hyphen were created using Microsoft Word i.e. User had prepared the list of material nos. in MS Word & then pasted those in SAP. The hyphen on our keypad is different as compared to the one which is in MS Word & hence the issue as SAP wasnt able to recognize it.

We replaced those hyphen with keypad hyphen & issue was resolved.

Thanks,

Best regards,

Prashant

[nils_buerckel]

Hi all,

yes, this is a general problem when transfering data from Unicode-Systems to Non-Unicode systems (could be also vice-versa, if unsupported characters are inserted).

One of these problematic characters is the hyphen (I think it is rather a dash, but hard to distinguish).

Another example would be the symbols €,™ or MS word exclamation marks  ...

This is one of the reasons why SAP recommends to minimize mixed connections between non-Unicode and Unicode. In the long run, all systems in the landscape should be based on Unicode.

Best regards,

Nils Buerckel