PA-BN : "FX015: Sign lost." dump

[Former Member]

Hi there,

I'm working in HR Benefits and have come across an interesting problem. If I hire an employee with a salary of 1.0000 (USD4) and try to take 1 to 5 times their salary as the life insurance benefit, I get the following ABAP dump :

Screen name: MP016800

Screen number: 2040

Screen field: Q0168-EECST

Error: FX015: Sign lost.

I've check SAP notes and find nothing relating to this error in benefits.

Any ideas? Regards,

Jim

[former_member181962]

Hi James,

The problem is that the field is unable to hold a value that is 5 times the salary.

I.e it is an overflow problem.

The field Q0168-EECST is of type CURR (13).

It can hold only a particular limit and anything more than that will give a dump.

Regards,

Ravi

[Former Member]

Hi Ravi,

No, that's not the problem because the field will hold values up to 50,000, even with 4 decimals (it will truncate the last 2 decimals). The problem occurs when the end user enters multiples of the current salary of $1.0000 (,i.e., x 1, x 2, x 3, x 4 and x 5). This is where it dumps.

Jim

[Former Member]

Check this SAP Note : 938673

[Former Member]

It's in German, is there an easy way to translate it to English?

[Former Member]

Srinivas,

This note does not seem to address the particular problem I am having. Regards,

Jim

[former_member181966]

Hi

I’m also seeing OSS notes . But if you search on key word "FX015: Sign lost" . you’ll find a bunch of OSS notes. Which talks about this problem , some how its related to table or program error . ( This is just a wild guess ) .

Let’s see .. I’m also working on that ..Interesting problem ..

Thanks

Saquib

[Former Member]

James,

You will see this error when a number goes negative and the screen field is not attached to a domain that permits negative numbers.

The field EECST is attached to data element BEN_EECOST. BEN_EECOST is attached to domain P_AMT07 (which has def of "Amount field (7 bytes w/o sign)"

Please verify that your number is not going negative (if the debugger) prior to display/passage to the screen.

[former_member181966]

Check out OSS Note # 329857. ( its give you some Idea )

also 873922

<b>*Do this</b>

Go to tr. SE80.

Choose program MP016800.

Choose screen 2040.

Click on the tab "element list".

Click the subtab "texts and I/O".

In the field Q0168-EECST definition, change the last position to "V",

so it will be ______________V

Save and activate the screen.

Pl. .award points to encourage all

Thanks

Message was edited by: Saquib Khan

[Former Member]

Saquib,

I believe that we are talking about a core screen.

James,

If this is core, I would NOT suggest the above.

[Former Member]

John,

Yes, it is an SAP screen but if the change is not made, then what do you suggest?

Jim

[Former Member]

I would open a message with SAP through OSS.

That is the purpose of OSS... To offer SAP support and NOT change the core product.