Customizing the Match Recommended Flag 

Use

The vendor or customer master data in BW includes the Match Recommended flag 0DB_MATCH. This flag has two values:

X	match recommended flag is set
<blank>	match recommended flag is not set

The Match Recommended flag is filled during the upload of vendor or customer master data from your OLTP systems. You can use this flag to separate your vendors/customers into two groups. When you export the vendor or customer master data from BW, you can determine how D&B will process each group:

·        Perform a new match

·        Only refresh the data

·        Perform no match, because, for example, the last refresh has been relatively recent.

Procedure

As a default, the match match recommended flag is not set. If you want to set the flag, you should set it in the transfer rules using an ABAP routine.

Example

You have already executed the rationalization process and your vendor or customer data in BW has been derived from the D&B assigned information.  As the vendor or customer data has changed in the mean time, a new data exchange with D&B is required. D&B should process your data as follows:

·        For new vendors/ customers, a new match should be performed

·        For existing vendors/ customers, the data should be refreshed

To distinguish new from existing vendors/ customers, you can use the Match Recommended flag and mark the new vendors/ customers with an ‘X’. In the transfer rules, add a corresponding ABAP routine that checks, for example, if a vendor already exists in the vendor or customer master data table in BW. If this is not the case, you fill the match recommended flag with an ‘X’.

You could also create an ABAP routine that checks if a vendor in the BW vendor master data table is already enhanced with a D-U-N-S number.

During the upload of the BW Import File, you should reset the match recommended flag because the uploaded data has now been matched. As a default, the match recommended flag is not used during the upload process. To reset the flag, you should set it to space (as a constant) in the transfer rules.