Asset does not exist

[Max2]

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")    

[raymond_giuseppi]

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)

[Max2]

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

[raymond_giuseppi]

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

[Max2]

Thanks, now it works

[raymond_giuseppi]

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