Cluster Object 

Definition

Each database object, for example, PCL1 or PCL2, with the type Import/Export file consists of related areas. These areas are known as clusters, for example. RX, RD. Cluster objects are dependent on the superordinate database object.

You can select the following cluster objects for database object PCL2:

If the database object has the type Master Data, then there is no cluster object.

Use

If you assign a database object with the type Import/Export file to the interface format, you must select the cluster in which the payroll or time evaluation data is found.

When the interface format is processing cluster data, it uses the existing import macros in the SAP System. If you have changed the table objects for the data import in the import macro (for example, if you have deleted or inserted a table object), these changes are automatically transferred to the Interface Toolbox.

The Toolbox checks that the import macro is actually reading the data from the superordinate database object and the specified cluster.

The system checks that the data definition include and the import macro are syntactically correct.

If you create a new cluster object or change the characteristics of an existing cluster object, you must enter the following information in the system:

The data definition include contains the definition of the data defined by the import macro.

The import macro determines the set of all possible subsequent table objects.

You then run the dialog for the table objects.