Changing the Financial transaction on commitment item

[Former Member]

We currently are operating on FM FBS, however do not do any reporting

out of the FM module. We are upgrading to ECC6.0 and implementing BCS

with full AVC and reporting coming out of FM. In our current system we

have Commitment items that are set to Financial Transaction and Item

category of 30/3, that are balance sheet CI's. These CI's really should

not be updating FM, and they should have been set to 50/3. There is

prior year actual and budget postings to these CI's that were set to

30/3.

For the start of the new implementation of BCS it would be preferred

that these CI's be changed to not update FM with FM documents and have

the new preferred settings of 50/3.

My question is, although SAP does not allow these fields to be manually

changed, is there a way to programatically change the 30/3 setting to a

50/3 setting.

Also, what are the repercussions of doing a switch of these settings on

the database tables.

Any advice would be appreciated.

[iklovski]

Hi,

I would not have messed with the definitions of CI in the artificial way. My question is, why would not you use other CIs instead, which will be correctly defined this time?

Regards,

Eli

[Former Member]

The reason we are not using new CI's is that the realtionship between CI and GL Account is one to one. So if we created new CI, we would also have to create new GL Accounts.

We are basically trying to avoid having to do that.

...Jay

[iklovski]

Well, not exactly... Just change the link of these G/L to the new CI and that's it.

[Former Member]

But currently the GL Account and the CI are the exact same number. ie : GL 12345 is linked to CI 12345. If I changed the CI then the users would have two different sets of numbers to remember and use from a reporting perspective.

...Jay

[iklovski]

Assign some letter or special character to the end of the new CI, e.g. 12356-T. Anyway, it's the best solution you might think about. You cannot change FI transactions after the postings are made and I certainly won't recommend to do it in the tables directly.