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Copy Inspection
Plan from External System
In this step, you prepare the transfer of data
for inspection plans from external systems into the R/3 System.
The Customizing function available for this purpose (data-transfer workbench)
supports all the single steps that can be standardized to transfer
data.
Requirements
The inspection plan data in the external system
exists in a form that is compatible with the data structure for inspection
plans in the R/3 system.
Recommendation
Read the documentation on the report
RCPTRA01 .
Activities
1. Prepare
transfer
a) Generate
transfer structure
The R/3 System creates table structure source descriptions for the data to be
transferred (transfer structures) and writes them to a sequential file that
you can use for the data agreement in the transfer program.
Generate a sequential file with the transfer structures (F5 function in data
transfer workbench). You can display the generated transfer structure (Shift +
F7) and change the data fields (F6).
Create the data agreements for this transfer structure in COBOL, C, PL/1 or
ASSEMBLER languages (Shift + F7).
b) Prepare
transfer program
Use the generated data agreements as the basis for creating a transfer program
that writes the inspection plan data from the external data processing system
to a sequential file. Batch input sessions can then be created from these
sequential files to transfer the data to the R/3 system.
2. Prepare
transfer data
a) Create a
sequential file using the inspection plan data from the external data
processing system and make this data available to the R/3 system.
b) Enter the
name of these sequential entry files in the following form: </path/name of
sequential file>
c) Create batch
input sessions to execute the transfer program (F8).
3. Perform data
transfer
a) Load the
batch-input sessions (Ctrl + F1).
b) Check the
data that has been transferred to the R/3 system.
Further
Notes
You can test the data transfer before
transferring a large number of inspection plans to the R/3 System. To do this,
proceed as follows:
- Create a model inspection plan in the R/3
System.
- Generate a sequential entry file (using the
workbench function "Generate test data").
- Create the corresponding batch-input session
(F8).
- Load this batch-input session in the
foreground (Strg + F1), and check how the program runs.