custom idoc segment fields not populated

[Former Member]

Way back in 1999 someone create a custom Idoc type with custom Idoc segments in it. Unfortunately, they forgot to release one of the segments.

Recently a change was request to add new fields to this custom segment. In order to get the fields transported the segment had to be released.

All worked fine in Dev and the new Idoc segments were populated as expected. However when the idoc segment was moved to the test system all visually appears to be fine but when the idoc is created (status 50) the new fields are not popultated.

In 40B the start of the inbound process was IDOC_INBOUND_DATA. Does anyone know what the new starting point is in 4.7??

I beleive the error is actually that SData is not reading all the input values and stopping right where the old fields end in teh custom segment.

Thanks,

Anthony

[Former Member]

additionally,

SAP will not allow us to release the basic idoc type because it was released in 40B. It also will not allow us to cancel the release since we are now in 620. So, unless anyone has input for this I think the only solution will be to create a successor IDoc type and change our apps to use the new IDoc type with it's enhancements.

[Former Member]

Built a new segment and created a successor from the original IDoc to solve this issue. I don't believe there was any other possible solution.

-Anthony