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Character length issue in PM - General Maintenance Task List template- Field PLNNR

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How to resolve the issue where the 'Key for Task List Group' field in the 'Task List Header' sheet of the 'Source Data for PM - General Maintenance Task List Template' is only accepting up to 8 characters, even though it is specified to allow up to 80 characters?

 

 


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Fields in the migration template are always representing the source data. Source data can be longer than SAP standard data esp. if the source system is not an SAP system. The field length is set to 80 characters for most of that fields to represent also non-SAP source data systems.

The different field length is not a problem but a correct behavior during data migration to SAP S/4HANA and SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition systems by using the content migration in Migration Cockpit.
Because the template is always the view on the legacy source data structures a customer may have.
Therefore customers can have longer field lengths for their legacy fields than the defined SAP target field lengths. A value mapping will convert the value from legacy source to the SAP target value.