Customer namespace/s

[Former Member]

Hi

I have had no working experience with the newer namespace convention

on SAP eg. /ABC/

I have always used Y* and Z* for customer objects.

Does anybody have knowledge on these questions:

1. Can two separate companies have the same namespace eg. Coca Cola

in the USA registers namespace '/ABC/', and Sony in Japan registers

namespace '/ABC/' ?

2. What are the dis/advantages of using this convention instead of Y*

and Z*

3. Does it make sense to use both '/ABC/' AND Z* ?

4. Where can I find best practise / recomendations ?

Thanks and regards,

Vick.

[naimesh_patel]

1 No, it is not possible

2 It is customers reserved namespace. Sometime SAP provides the Z includes in the USERExits FM. So, customer namespace can avoid that.

3. Yes. you can use it... like when you try to implement a user exit's include, that include must be a part of the Z*..

Regards,

Naimesh Patel

[Former Member]

Hi Naimesh

Thanks for your reply.

1. If it is not possible for 2 separate SAP customers to have the same namespace, then how does the same 3rd party developments get into many SAP systems ?

2. Are you suggesting that the Z includes that SAP provides in the USERExits FM can be changed or replaced with /ABC/myinclude ?

3. This means that CMOD and SMOD still use the Z* standard - are there any other objects that cannot be named using the /ABC/ convention ?

Regards,

Vick.

[naimesh_patel]

1. I don't have much idea about the third party objects.. but I have somewhere that third party objects will not come under the /ABC/ namespace.. they will come under the Z*

2. I am not suggesting to change that.. If during the the upgrationd SAP comes up with the Z include in User Exit which is already there in the Customer's SAP system than it could lead to problem in future.. /ABC/ can save customer development from the replacement.

3. I don't have much idea apart from this User Exit...

Regards,

Naimesh Patel

[ferry_lianto]

Hi,

1. If it is not possible for 2 separate SAP customers to have the same namespace, then how does the same 3rd party developments get into many SAP systems ?

2. Are you suggesting that the Z includes that SAP provides in the USERExits FM can be changed or replaced with /ABC/myinclude?

We had installed Info Pak (third party software) in our SAP system.

They had naming convention '/RWD/...' for their include programs and function modules.

3. This means that CMOD and SMOD still use the Z* standard - are there any other objects that cannot be named using the /ABC/ convention ?

I think for enhancement you still need to use Z*.

Regards,

Ferry Lianto