Changing an infoobject.

[henry_jones]

I'm looking for advice on the best way to change the length on 2 attributes of 0WBS_ELEMT. 0WBS_ELEMT itself is rather large. In the past, I changed the lengths and transported. It took an extremely long time. Here are my scenarios:

1) just change the lengths and transport. (this takes a long time)

2) remove the attributes from 0WBS_ELEMT, transport 0WBS_ELEMT, change the attribute lengths and add them back to 0WBS_ELEMT.

3) create a transformation and set the 2 attribute values to null, then change the lengths.

any thoughts?

[Former Member]

Hi Henry,

In BI,increasing the length of an infobject is possible without deletion of data only if the object is not a master data object.

In your case, you are trying to increase the length of the Master data info objects,it wouldn't be possible without deleting data in all data targets whereever the object is used. Reason being the connection with the SID's.You will also need to delete the master data with SID's and then change the length.

If at all still data exists in the SID tables goto se16 and check the SID table. You might have some entries there. Delete them manually.

Also increasing the length is only possible in case there is no conversion routine. So you can delete the conversion routine activate the object and then increase the length.

Let meknow if you need more info or have nay concerns.

Regards,

Bhagyarekha.