Material locked after using IDOC_INPUT_MATMAS

[Former Member]

Hi All

I have a program which uses function IDOC_INPUT_MATMAS for creating/changing material. After that it also tries to update "Legal Control" using a BDC on MM02 but then I get message M3 022 (Group data for material xxx locked by xxx). It looks like the function is not unlocking tables MARA and MBEW (I can see this on SM12).

I have already searched over the internet, SDN and services.sap but no luck so far.

Anyone has an idea about what could be wrong?

Best Regards,

Douglas

[Former Member]

Hi All

I have a program which uses function IDOC_INPUT_MATMAS for creating/changing material. After that it also tries to update "Legal Control" using a BDC on MM02 but then I get message M3 022 (Group data for material xxx locked by xxx). It looks like the function is not unlocking tables MARA and MBEW (I can see this on SM12).

I have already searched over the internet, SDN and services.sap but no luck so far.

Anyone has an idea about what could be wrong?

Best Regards,

Douglas

[Former Member]

Hi

I can see that are locks for 4 tables:

MARA

MBEW

MARC

MVKE

Messages can be M3 022 (for MBEW) and M3 897 (for MARC).

Best Regards,

Douglas

[Former Member]

Before the BDC, use the ENQUEUE function (with _WAIT = 'X') to try to lock the entry that is causing problems. After that FM completes, dequeue the same entry.

Rob

[Former Member]

Hi Rob

I have done this before as workaround. Actually I just used DEQUEUE after calling the IDOC function.

I just would like to know why the IDOC function is not dequeuing the entries.

Best Regards

Douglas