Customizing includes

[Former Member]

Hi All,

can someone explain what happens if i add fields to a customising include,which dont start with YY or ZZ (ie not in customer name space) during an upgrade?? Also what happens to the data related.

Thanks in advance

[eduardo_hinojosa]

Hi

To know SAP Note 16466 - Customer name range for SAP objects is convenient to avoid problems. See 'Table field SAP table'.

What can happens if you do an append in a SAP table and you set fields that doesn't begin by ZZ* or YY*. Well, SAP can update the table with new fields (upgrade, support-packages, etc...), and it can happens that SAP insert a new field with the same name (think that there are fields from SAP that begins with Z, eg: ZTERM). The activation of objects will return a wrong message.

I hope this helps you

Regards

Eduardo

[Former Member]

Hi Eduardo,

thanks for the response

i inserted a non zz/yy field in a customising include.and it didn give me any activation error.

so the problem arises only when SAP t,happens to insert a similar field while upgrade ,isnt it??

otherwise it is fine.i doubted while upgrade,SAP deletes all those field with non ZZ/YY names in customising includes.automatically..guess nothing like that happens..

please correct if i am wrong.

thanks alot`

[eduardo_hinojosa]

Hi Teenu,

Customer include or appends related with this becomes the same. I tell you what happens some year ago. I was checking the SPAU for APPL support-packages. Some time before somebody apply a note (manual) and set standard fields in an append. SAP don't modify the append (perhaps it was an append called ZAtable for table). After activation, this table and all reports that use this table return error (the log with a lot of red lines). Why? Because in the table I had some fields repeated (the fields in the append and the fields that comes from the support-packages). I remembered it as a nightmare. If you are using these fields for a enhancement, BADI, BTE and so on, please, call the name of fields with beginning ZZ/YY. You will avoid a lot of problems yourself or to other colleague.

Regards

Eduardo

[Former Member]

Hey

thanks alot for sharing a real time experience..