Hello Emanuel
As for your issue, i have to report that this is a standard system behaviour irregardless of release version. The serial number has no own "master record".
In fact it is stored in form of a rudimentary equipment master record (table EQUI). So everytime you create a serial number manually or when a serial number is created automatically out of a business
transaction you will get such an equipment record.
However, such a rudimentary equipment cannot be changed or viewed with transactions IE0x, you have to use the transactions for the serial numbers (IQ0x). But you can extend an existing serial number to a full equipment record.
An equipment NUMBER is always created when you create a new serial number, regardless of having marked w/o equipment. But when you have marked the w/o equipment it means that really only the equipment number and very few further data is created, but no COMPLETE equipment master
data as you would get when you don't mark w/o equipment.
The equipment number will be generated in every case, whatever the field EqReq is filled with ' '(blank), '1' or '2'.
This feature has a techinical background: Serial numbers are stored in the database table EQUI and require a unique key - the 'equipment number'. These equipment numbers can not be maintained via transaction IE02.
The suggestion or work-around given was:
If you don't want to have the "jumps" within the equipment numbers for real equipments you can assign the serial numbers to a different equipment type with its own number range. Then you can avoid the jumps within the real equipments.
Hope the information is helpful.
Regards,
Jane
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