Business Partner Conversion (Phase II) 

Purpose

In the following sections you will find information about the individual activities for business partner conversion phase II.

Prerequisites

You have processed all open releases prior to beginning the content conversion (and thus completed all open workflow items). In the open releases there are references to the business partner number. The content of these references is not converted at the same time.

Process flow

Phase II of business partner conversion is made up of two stages that have to be carried out one after the other:

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       1.      You have to convert the DDIC references for all the fields in the tables and structures that refer to data elements and domains belonging to the Treasury Business Partner to the corresponding data elements and domains for the SAP Business Partner. This stage is known as DDIC conversion. All SAP domains and data elements have already been converted to the SAP Business Partner and are supplied in the correct form. You can carry out the DDIC conversion for domains and data elements from customer-specific tables and structures using reports from phase II.

       2.      The field values in tables that previously referenced the Treasury Business Partner have to be replaced with corresponding field values of the SAP Business Partner. For example, the BP role category has changed from four to six digits. This is true for both customer-specific tables as well as field values from SAP tables. This stage of phase II is known as content conversion. The prerequisite for the content conversion is that the DDIC conversion must be completed.

Both stages are controlled by information that is managed in the control tables. The control tables are project-specific, that is there is a table record for phase I (project 0001) and for phase II (project 0003). The information available in these tables for phase I (see report RFTBUC02) is copied to table BPUM_DOM for project 0003 using report RFTBUH02_0 at the start of phase II. The reports for phase II pass on the information contained in table BPUM_DOM to the tables. This is true for information about both customer-specific table fields as well as SAP fields.