How to setup variant for batch job for Automatic Shipment Cost Document creation?

[Barada_Swain]

Hi All,

This is ofcourse a very common setup and I have tried to search here in SCN and also Google in general but don't seem to find a pointer for this issue. Apologies if it's a very basic question, but I have not been able to figure out the solution.

Requirement: We needed to setup a new batch job in order to create Shipment cost documents automatically through a batch job. I believe the online transaction is VI04. For the batch job setup ofcourse we need to have a program and a variant. The program is RV56TRSL and I can see in SE93 that for transaction VI04 certain parameters are setup (MODE = 'FR_COST' and VARIANT = 'SAP_VTR_FRCT').

Issue: The above 2 parameters are not displayed on screen and I am unsure how do I setup a variant manually where I can setup these values correctly. If I try to create the variant through SE38 directly these parameters hold the values MODE = 'DISPO' and VARIANT = 'SAP_VTR_HELP'. This results in the jobs not actually creating the Shipment cost document but just selecting the eligible documents and not do anything else.

Could anyone guide me how is it usually done? How do I setup the right values for the parameters which are not displayed on the screen?

Regards

[Lakshmipathi]

Take the inputs from SAP note 861675 and create a variant as suggested therein