BBP_DOCUMENT_TAB- Entries with special charaters afetr unicode upgrade

[Former Member]

Hi,

We are on SRM 5.0 (SRM_SERVER 550) Sp07. SAp 4.7 backend.

We are upgrading the system to unicode.

What we have observed is after PO creation the BBP_DOCUMENT_TAB has some special characters in the field 'Key'

For example:

BUS2121001##䟅㳤탇ᾣᾣઃ????#?? ######## 01############################

In the non unicode system the entry reads like below

BUS2121001GAEp#?g8Ia#####o# ################ 01###########

This does not cause problems in most of the SRM systems, but in one of the systems, the Clean_reqreq_up job is failing with a message 'Buffer table not up to date'. We are not sure if this is due to the entries in BBP_DOCUMENT_TAB which have special characters or not.

Can someone please explain the impact/risk of such entries in BBP_DOCUMENT_TAB. Is this a known issue. is there any solution for this?

Thanks & regards,

Srivatsan

Edited by: Srivatsan on Feb 29, 2008 1:14 PM

[Former Member]

Hi,

The special characters may be due unicode/langauage issue.

See the foll notes:

Note 548016 - Conversion to Unicode

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BR,

Disha.

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