SAP ABAP IMG Activity SIMG_FAGL_ACTIVEC (Activate New General Ledger Accounting)
Hierarchy
SAP_FIN (Software Component) SAP_FIN
   FI-GL (Application Component) General Ledger Accounting
     FAGL_LEDGER_CUST (Package) New General Ledger: Scenarios, Ledgers
IMG Activity
ID SIMG_FAGL_ACTIVEC Activate New General Ledger Accounting  
Transaction Code S_ELN_06000008   (empty) 
Created on 20030829    
Customizing Attributes SIMG_FAGL_ACTIVEC   Activate New General Ledger 
Customizing Activity SIMG_FAGL_ACTIVEC   Activate New General Ledger 
Document
Document Class SIMG   Hypertext: Object Class - Class to which a document belongs.
Document Name SIMG_FAGL_ACTIVEC    

Use

In this IMG activity, you active New General Ledger Accounting.

By activating new General Ledger Accounting, you achieve the following:

  • The functions for new General Ledger Accounting become available.
  • In the SAP Reference IMG, the previous Financial Accounting menu is replaced by the Financial Accounting (New) menu. Under Financial Accounting Global Settings (New) and General Ledger (New), you can make the settings for new General Ledger Accounting.
  • You activate the tables of new General Ledger Accounting so that your posting data is written to them.

Caution

If you already use classic General Ledger Accounting in your production system, you need to perform the migration of this data before you activate new General Ledger Accounting. Migration is only possible as part of a project in collaboration with the SAP General Ledger Migration Service. For more information, see the documentation in the SAP Library under Accounting -> Financial Accounting -> General Ledger Accounting (New) -> Tools -> Migration.

Standard settings

When you activate new General Ledger Accounting, not only are the tables of new General Ledger Accounting updated in the standard system, but also the balances in the tables of classic General Ledger Accounting (table GLT0). This default setting is there to enable you to use comparison reports during the implementation phase of new General Ledger Accounting to ensure that new General Ledger Accounting delivers correct results.

  • To compare the data, you use the IMG activity Compare Ledgers.
  • Once you have establish that new General Ledger Accounting is set up correctly and is operating correctly, you can deactivate the updates from classic General Ledger Accounting. To do this, choose in Customizing Financial Accounting Global Settings (New) -> Tools -> Deactivate Update of Classic General Ledger (GLT0).

Activities

Example

Business Attributes
ASAP Roadmap ID 105   Define functions and processes 
Mandatory / Optional 2   Optional activity 
Critical / Non-Critical 1   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 SIMG_FAGL_ACTIVEC 0 HLA0009201 General Ledger Accounting 
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
V_FAGL_ACTIVEC V - View FAGL_ACTIVATION  
History
Last changed by/on SAP  20040225 
SAP Release Created in 470