SAP ABAP IMG Activity OKCM_OKCSL (Maintain requirements)
Hierarchy
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IMG Activity
ID OKCM_OKCSL Maintain requirements  
Transaction Code S_ALR_87000102   IMG Activity: OKCM_OKCSL 
Created on 19981222    
Customizing Attributes OKCM_OKCSL   Maintain requirements 
Customizing Activity OKCM_OKCSL   Maintain requirements 
Document
Document Class SIMG   Hypertext: Object Class - Class to which a document belongs.
Document Name OKCM_OKCSL    

In this step you define the contents of the data slice. These settings represent the requirements that are used to maintain or import data.

You can limit the characteristics by either entering the characteristic values or by entering intervals or variables. The advantage of a variable is that you can change the characteristic values without having to create a new data slice. This is especially helpful with the period and year (for example, current period/year). You can maintain variables using 'Goto -> Define variables'.

Important information is contained in the names of some files. It is possible to interpret the characters from a specific offset in a specific length and to use them to separate the data within a data slice. An example: a file is called PLAN0031999, the data contained in this file (offset 5 in length 7) must be imported in period/year 003.1999.

Before importing new or changed data, it is often necessary to delete some of the existing data to guarantee the consistency of the data. For this reason you can flag certain characteristics in a data slice that separate the dataset into related parts. Examples include company code, project or company. When data is imported, the characteristic values of these partitioning characteristics are collected. Then all data that contains these characteristic values, in addition to the characteristic values of the other characteristics from the data slice description, is deleted.

Example

The relationship between two companies in a group was incorrectly maintained and data has already been imported. The error is corrected and new records are imported. If the data that was initially imported was not deleted, the old records would remain in the database.

Requirements

Standard settings

Recommendation

Activities

  1. Select the partitioning characteristics.
  2. Limit the characteristics.

Further notes

Business Attributes
ASAP Roadmap ID 204   Establish Functions and Processes 
Mandatory / Optional 2   Optional activity 
Critical / Non-Critical 2   Non-critical 
Country-Dependency A   Valid for all countries 
Assigned Application Components
Documentation Object Class Documentation Object Name Current line number Application Component Application Component Name
SIMG OKCM_OKCSL 0 HLA0009495 O HLA0009491  
Maintenance Objects
Maintenance object type C   Customizing Object 
Assigned objects
Customizing Object Object Type Transaction Code Sub-object Do not Summarize Skip Subset Dialog Box Description for multiple selections
IMGDUMMY D - Dummy object OKCSL OKCSL Maintain data slice 
History
Last changed by/on SAP  19981222 
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