Shadow Table

[Former Member]

Hi,

I'd like to have more information about Shadow's Table ?

Robert

[RichHeilman]

I've never heard that term used?

Is it the same as transparant table?

Regards,

Rich Heilman

[Former Member]

SAP use that term into the description.

l am trying to find the meaning of it.

Robert

[RichHeilman]

I did a search in google, got something that looks like it is related to BW. Is this a BW thing?

Regards,

Rich Heilman

[Former Member]

Are you referring to this one(*) as the shadow table as shown below?

tables: vbep,*vbep.

*VBEP is not a table, but just another work area for VBEP that is provided by default by the system. There is only one database table VBEP. This was used by SAP in old programs and is no longer used. The TABLES statement defines a workarea having structure similar to those table names that follow it. You can only specify valid database table and structure names with this statement with the exception of *DBTAB which is special workarea the doesn't exist in the database but is recognized by the system.

Srinivas

[Former Member]

According to OSS note #673941:

"These shadow tables are used during the transfer of customizing data with an address reference (such as company codes, plants, sales organizations)."

Rob

[RichHeilman]

Thanks for that Rob, so do you think these "Shadow" tables are specific to unicode conversion?

Regards,

Rich Heilman

[Former Member]

They seem to have been around for quite a while. Look at ADR2S.

Rob

[Former Member]

Thanks Rob. Here is the link to the documentation. It is there even in 46c. It is related to the CAM(Central Address Management)

<a href="http://help.sap.com/saphelp_46c/helpdata/en/bd/b01027b88a11d3b550006094192fe3/frameset.htm">Central Address Management (BC-SRV-ADR)</a>

It is under Addresses of Customizing Objects>Address Maintenance in Customizing>Transport of Customizing Addresses-->Transports as of Release 4.6

Srinivas