Error when running a program /RPM/FIN_PLAN_INT

[Former Member]

when executing the program "/RPM/FIN_PLAN_INT", I'm getting an error stating as "Category ID does not exist for item.Instantiate categories first"

This error is hitting for only 4 Items in list of all 173 Item. Hence the Financial cost are not getting update for all the items when executing the program. The DB update failed.

I checked the financial Category IDs and its maintained properly and working fine with other Items. Why this is happening for only the 4 items? Am I missing something in config?

Please experts provide me some valuable suggesions.

[anuradha_majumdar · Accepted solution]

You may have to execute /RPM/PLAN_INT_PREP for those items.

Alternately if users go to the financial planning of the item then also financial categories are instantiated for that item.

Regards,

Anuradha

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thanks for the help.

As you mentioned went to the financial planning of the item which instantiated financial categories for those items.

But is it prerequisite to run the program /RPM/FIN_PLAN_INT. Because we are executing these roll up programs as batch jobs. And not executing manually.

So couldn't able to identify which day for which item the program /RPM/FIN_PLAN_INT stops updating the DB.

Regards,

Sri

[mariano_sabiche]

Hi;

When you define and edit the mapping between the project management role function ID and the financial planning view, category, or group. You can also decide on whether the cost or revenue rate is to be considered for the financial information calculation.

1. Execute report /RPM/PLAN_INT_PREP to create financial and capacity categories and groups for the bucket or the portfolio items based on the parameters mentioned in the selection screen.

2. Execute report /RPM/FIN_PLAN_INT to perform the financial planning for a portfolio item for the different portfolio items based on the parameters mentioned in the selection screen.

Prerequisite: For the portfolio item, you must have executed report /RPM/PLAN_INT_PREP before.

3. Execute report /RPM/BUCKET_ROLLUP to roll up the financial data for the different categories and groups of the portfolio items to its higher-level buckets.

Hope this help you.

Best Regards.

Mariano

[Former Member]

Hello Mariano,

Some time back.. the same fix was suggested to me by SAP too... but how about the root cause for the message: "Category ID does not exist for item.Instantiate categories first" Why do we get this? and What does instantiate categories mean here?

Thanks

N K

[former_member225645]

Hi,

As Anuradha mentioned, if an item financial planning dashboard is not opened once, then this 'plan int prep' program is to be run for all newly created items once.

But if you are going to PPM5.0, if not already, running this program separately in no longer relevant. As we've a new composite program for fico integration!

thx, Mathavan