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TABLE: CEPC, FIELD: PRCTR Enhancement

Former Member

‎2011 May 09 4:29 PM

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Hi All,

The length of the Profit Center field PRCTR in CEPC (Profit Center Master Data Table) is 10.

Right now the profit center data is of length 8.

We have requirement of getting Profit Center data from a legacy system where the length of Profit Center is 14.

Could you please let me know how this needs to be handled?

1) Can the length of Profit Center field in table CEPC can be changed to 14?

If we can, then will it afftect the already existing Profit Centers of length 8?

and what would be the other tables where Profit Center is maintained and do we need to change the length in those table also?

Appreciate your inputs.

Thanks,

Neelesh

PS: I am not from ABAP background so I am not sure where this is right forum for this question.

Hi All,

The length of the Profit Center field PRCTR in CEPC (Profit Center Master Data Table) is 10.

Right now the profit center data is of length 8.

We have requirement of getting Profit Center data from a legacy system where the length of Profit Center is 14.

Could you please let me know how this needs to be handled?

1) Can the length of Profit Center field in table CEPC can be changed to 14?

If we can, then will it afftect the already existing Profit Centers of length 8?

and what would be the other tables where Profit Center is maintained and do we need to change the length in those table also?

Appreciate your inputs.

Thanks,

Neelesh

PS: I am not from ABAP background so I am not sure where this is right forum for this question.

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ThomasZloch
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‎2011 May 09 4:35 PM

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Do not change the length of SAP standard fields, they are used all over the place in tables, screens and program logic, you could seriously ruin your installation this way.

Instead you or your team need to come up with a conversion table in order to translate length 14 legacy values into length 8 SAP values, and use that in your technical process. Easily incorporated via LSMW, for example.

Thomas