Importing Sources 

Prerequisites

See the Prerequisites section under: Import: Process.

Procedure

  1. From the Product Safety screen, choose Data transfer ® Sources.

    2. The initial Import Sources: Parameters screen appears.

  2. If you have defined an exchange profile in Customizing for Product Safety, enter the key for the exchange profile, and choose ENTER.

    3. The settings in the exchange profile are transferred.

  3. Please ensure that the path and file name for the transfer file and directory on the application server have been entered in the File with path field.

/USR/SAP/SH1/SYS/GLOBAL/SOURCE.DAT
  1. Choose Edit ® Check file.

The R/3 System checks the transfer file and determines the sources to be created and changed.
  1. Choose Goto ® Check log. Select the log for your transfer file, choose Goto ® Display messages, and check any error messages there.

To correct the transfer file, choose Data transfer ® Download file from the Product Safety screen. Make the changes in an ASCII editor, and then choose Data transfer ® Upload file.
  1. On the initial screen for source import, choose Edit ® Transfer/start time.

A dialog box appears in which you can define the start date. After you have saved your data, the R/3 System starts the data transfer for the start date specified.

To check the procedure, choose Data transfer ® Check transfer ® Sources from the Product Safety screen.
  1. On the initial screen for source import, choose Goto ® Direct-Input, to display the log for the database update.

Then choose Job administration ® Execute, select the log for your transfer file, and choose Job administration ® Display log. The system generates a list of all messages for the background job.

Evaluate the messages, and make the necessary corrections.

Result

After the import, you can check sources in Source Management.