BW 3.5 Unicode and R/3 4.6C EBCDIC on V5R4

[Former Member]

Hi All,

We're unable to activate (with or without metadata replication) data sources that are from a R/3 4.6C EBCDIC system. The BW system is a new install of 3.5. It is able to successfully replicate metadata and activate when the source system is a CRM 4.0 (ASCII) system. The error message is "Incorrect IDoc type éâÄÃðôð@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ in the ALE definition of the source system" (RSAR 373). We had SAP Content Server EBCDIC --> ASCII translation problems when we upgraded to V5R4 and I wonder if this is a similar type problem. We also see rscpLangCPListGetCPtry failed (2048): lang: ZH in the work process log. Has anyone seen this error and found a way around it?

TIA,

Stan

[former_member181887]

Hi Stanley,

I would suggest that open a customer message like the other poster stated. Even thou EBCDIC is not recommended (a conversion to ASCII is), it shoudl still work.

Cheers,

Mike.

[Former Member]

Hi Stan,

at least it is sure, that you are facing an ASCII-EBCDIC issue, as EBCDIC-blank is x'40' and ASCII-@ is x'40' as well. So, here the data in the BW is not converted. But, I'm a b it surprised, because this is standard, that it works fine ... I would be surprised, if this would be dropped in the meantime. I guess, you transfer the data via RFC and this should do the conversion. Perhaps the standard config is in the meantime "binary containers" ... I would search for notes in this area and then open an SAP message ....

Regards

Volker Gueldenpfennig, consolut.gmbh

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