Open orders upload issue S/4HANA Cloud

[Expert]

Our client want to upload open maintenance orders. These order are 2-3 years old. They have require start/end date as old dates. When we uploaded the data using migration cockpit the required start/ end dates are being updated as today's date. How to update them as old dates? The notification dates are updated as old one

[Expert · Accepted solution]

The old dates won't work to my knowledge since even at order creation via the apps, past dates cannot be used as start date.

[Tim_Jones]

This is standard behaviour of the 'PM - Maintenance Order' migration object. You can't backdate the Required Start / Required Finish. I would either get the client to propose new Required Finish dates to populate on those Maintenance Orders instead (as they still need to be executed at some point right?), or worst case scenario, create a custom field and dump the old date into that for reference.