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Procedure documentation Maintaining Customizing for Conversions Locate the document in its SAP Library structure

Use

You control the conversion process in Customizing for Conversions. In the SAP reference IMG you will find Customizing of Conversion under the following path: Logistics - General ® Conversion.

The following activities are required for conversion:

  1. Maintain Converter
  2. Define Conversion

Maintain Converters

In this activity you maintain the general data for the converter.

  1. You can name the converter as you like, such as CATtoJT for a converter that converts CATIA files to JT files.
  2. Enter the RFC Destination for ConvUtil.

Enter the RFC destination as the Help Program for Conversions. This is the same destination you use for the program ConvUtil.

Note

You can leave the fields for the rest of the RFC destinations blank. The program ConvUtil starts the RFC server.

See also: Installing the Converter

Further Notes

Area

Note

Batch process

All converters that you define in this activity can be used at the same time for conversions. Each conversion uses its own batch process.

Set up the SAP system so that enough batch processes are available.
In addition to the batch processes that you need for other enterprise areas, we recommend you have at least one additional batch process for each converter.

Lock active converter

Normally, each Program can only be accessed once when converting. Running another program simultaneously will cause an error. To avoid this, the converter being used for the conversion is locked while converting.

This lock is only possible when the following conditions are met:

  • Each RFC destination is only used once.
  • For this activity you maintain different converters in different SAP systems and in different clients.

Conversion test

When you test the settings in the Customizing system, and then transport the settings into the productive system, both systems have the same entries.

From this point in time, do not start any more conversions in the Customizing system. Otherwise errors will occur during conversion.

Note

You can find further information in the Customizing IMG for Conversion; Logistics General ® Conversion ® Maintain Converter.

Define Conversion

Enter the conversion data in two partial-steps:

  1. Enter data for the converter specification.

For each document type decide which source format for the original application files is to be converted into which target format.

Specify the status of the document info record that is to automatically start the conversion of original application files.
  1. Enter the parameters and parameter values for each specification. The entries are dependent on the converter you selected.

Note

You can find further information in the Customizing IMG for Conversion; Logistics General ® Conversion ® Define conversion.

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