Maintaining Customizing for Conversions 

Use

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

The following activities are required for conversion:

  1. Maintaining Converters
  2. Determine conversion

Maintaining 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 destinations for the program ConvUtil.

Enter the RFC Destination as the Help program for conversions. This is the same destination you us for the program ConvUtil.

You do not have to make any other entries for the rest of the RFC Destinations. The program ConvUtil starts the RFC server.

See also: Installing the Converter

More 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.
We recommend you have an additional batch process for each converter in addition to the batch processes for the enterprise areas.

Lock active converter

Normally, each of these programs can only be accessed one at a time when converting. Running another program simultaneously will cause an error to appear. 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.
  • Different converters are maintained in different activities for different SAP Systems and in different clients.

Conversion test

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

Do not start any more conversion in the Customizing system at this point. Otherwise errors will occur during conversion.

More information can be found in the IMG of Conversion; Logistics General ® Conversion ® Maintain converter.

Determine conversion

Enter the conversion data in two partial-steps:

  1. Enter data for the converter specification.

You decide for each document type which source format of original application files in which target format for the conversion.

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

More information can be found in the IMG of Conversion; Logistics General ® Conversion ® Determine conversion.