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Setup of Statistical Data

During a setup (statistical setup), the information structures are filled with consistent and complete data.

The statistical setup of one or more information structures is necessary in the following cases:

Preparation

To restart a statistical update after an termination, allocate a name to each background run of the setup.

If a statistical setup is then terminated or if a setup is interrupted from the archive documents, the status of the setup will then be saved under the name of this run.

When restarting under the same name, processing will continue from the intermediate status that was saved.

After the run is successfully completed, the intermediate status that was saved is deleted.

Recommendation

Procedure

The following steps are necessary to perform a complete statistical set up:

1. Initialize version for statistical setup
For reasons of security, the statistical data determined during a setup is not directly written into an information structure, but are saved instead under a separate version name. This version must be activated for intermediate storage before the statistical setup is carried out.
For this purpose, the report RMCSISCP is available.
The actual data is saved under the version name "000".
2. Save actual data
The actual data in the system should be saved for safety reasons.
Again, use report RMCSISCP for this purpose.
3. Edit all archived documents
To do this, you can use the various reports that are available in the individual applications.
4. Edit all documents in the system
This also takes place via the various reports that are available in the individual applications.
5. Transfer the data which was obtained in the statistical setup from the statistical setup version to the actual version
The data obtained is only imported to the actual version instead of the existing data after the successful completion of the statistical setup.
The report RMCSISCP is again used for this purpose.
Note
You can see the versions of the standard information structures by using the standard analyses. Here are the following possibilities:
a) You can allocate the version number of the version as a value to the user parameter "MCR" that you would like to see.
On the selection screen of the standard analysis, the field Version under Parameters is automatically completed with the given version number. The version number can be changed simply by overwriting it.
This setting is user-dependent and applies to all standard analyses.
b) If you assign the value "X" to the user paramter "MCR", the version "000" will generally appear on the selection screen of the standard analyses. Even in this case, the version number can be overwritten.
This setting is also user-dependent and applies to all standard analyses.
If you want to use either one of these functions, select System -> User profile -> User parameters . You can select this function from any menu.
Recommendation
You should change the user parameters in an alternative session, as it is not possible to return to the starting point from the user parameters maintenance screen.
c) Via "User settings", you can also make specifications for the versions, which are also user-dependent, but also only refer to one particular standard analysis.
To do this, in the selection screen of the standard analysis, select Goto -> User settings.
You are now in the standard drill-down. Select Goto ->Parameters.
If you set the indicator "Selectable version", the field "Version" with the version number "000" will also appear on the selection screen. This version number can be overwritten at any time and thus changed.
1. Follow-up processing
After successfully completing the statistical setup, you can then delete data that is no longer needed by deleting the version under which this data is saved.
These include:
The report RMCSISCP can be used for this purpose.

Activities

To carry out a statistical setup, procede as follows:

1. Enter your selection requirements.
2. Save your entries.
3. Select Program -> Execute.

Description of the report RMCSISCP

The report RMCSISCP is used in all information systems in Logistics. For this reason, the report is described below.

You can use report RMCSISCP you can copy or delete versions from information structures under which statistical data has been saved.

The data, that has been saved in an information structure, is different due to the version under which they have been saved.

The version "000" includes the actual data, i.e., the data that was written into the information structure as a result of the statistical update.

The intermediate results are stored in the versions that begin with " &(" and that are created when an information structure is setup.

Planning data is stored under all other versions (that means version A000 and all numerical versions except version 000).

The statistical setup of an information structure is carried out just like the online update, with the difference being that the data is not usually written into version "000" first, but rather into a version that you choose, that begins with "&(". The data is only copied from this version into the "000" version after the successful completion of the initial transfer.

Note
While copying into the "000" version, you must not carry out any postings that update the respective information structure.

To keep the old version "000" (the existing actual data) from being lost, save it under another version. This "safety copy" is also generated with report RMCSISCP.

You can use the indicator "Initialize target version" to delete data data stored until now under this version. If the indicator "Do not copy initial records" is set, data records are only set if at least one key figure is not initial.

Attention

The report RMCSISCP should only be used for copying, deleting and for copying + deleting. Copy Management should be used to meet more complex requirements (Tools -> Copy Management).

Activities

1. Enter the name of the information structure that is to be copied/deleted.
2. Choose a processing type.
The Copy Management screen is called up. The processing type that you have selected is already set.
3. Here you make all the remaining entries required for selection.

Additional functions

You can also call up a log which contains detailed information about all of the completed setup runs.

This function allows you to make restrictions by specifying the start date of a run, the run name, the user and the application.

You can also either print the list of selected setup runs or the detail screen for a setup run.