ECS soft error not created upon BRF+ substitution

[jay_pandit]

Hi Experts,

I am trying to generate a soft error in Error Correction & Suspense system. I am using BAPI_ACC_DOCUMENT_POST to post an FI document with a bad account number. I have set up a BRFplus substitution rule to replace the bad account with a valid account. The substitution is taking place, an FI document is being posted with the valid account. However, the system is not creating an ECS item (soft error).

The SAP documentation says "... the system creates an ECS item if the resulting document is posted to a suspense account in FI " . Does the replacement account need to be a special suspense account in order for the system to produce an ECS soft error ? I am looking for some guidance in how to make the system create a soft ECS error in my scenario (i.e. when BRFplus does a substitution).

Thanks !

Jay P.

[jay_pandit · Accepted solution]

Solved: In BRF+, I needed to log an Error message (which I was not doing earlier). Earlier, I was only doing a substitution (of bad account# with good account#). Upon adding a Log Message (Action) of Type Error to the BRF+ logic, that got communicated back to ECS as an error, and on the ECS side the desired Soft Error was produced.