Afternoon all,
Bit of a strange one. I've been using the Datasource 0EMPLOYEE_ATTR for years without any real issues. Following the creation of a new Personnel Area (0PERS_AREA) recently by HR I am now getting a dump in my QA system while trying to extract and also when executing in RSA3.
The dump message is as follows;
Runtime Errors CONVT_NO_NUMBER
Date and Time 09.04.2014 11:57:39
Short text
Unable to interpret "EFP1" as a number.
What happened?
Error in the ABAP Application Program
The current ABAP program "SAPLZGCC" had to be terminated because it has
come across a statement that unfortunately cannot be executed.
Up until now all Personnel Areas in our business have been created as purely numerical e.g. 0001, 0091 etc so it's easy enough to see what it doesn't like as the new PA that has been created is EFP1. What I can't understand however is that the field is marked as being an alpha-numeric field in ERP (P0001-WERKS) and likewise in BW is a 4 letter Char string which in any event seems irrelevant as it is also dumping in RSA3.
I've advised the business to change their usage and re-create as purely numeric but they are rightly asking me for an explanation as to why this is a problem.
Any ideas?