Problem loading material master (IS Mill) data from ECC to BI

Question

Hi Gurus,
We have a problem loading Material master data from ECC to BI 7.0 SP 18.
The scenario is :
The ECC is with IS Mill... due to which the Material field MATNR is of length 40 instead of standard 18 characters.
That is data element MATNR has 18 chars and its output length is 40 chars.
When is table MARA browsed using SE16, the material with more than 18 chars.... shows only first 18 characters and are ended with !.
OMSL setting shows length as 40.
When the extractor checker runs 0MATERIAL_TEXT or 0MATERIAL_ATTR it gives correct output ..... which is more than 18 characters... not ended with !
Till here no problem.
On BI side, after replication of the datasource, i checked data element MATNR ... but it has length as 18 chars and output length as 18 chars.
OMSL setting cannot be set more than 18.
Infopackage has pulled data till PSA successfully. I checked the PSA data .... here to the material with more than 18 chars is ended with !.
When the data is further pushed to 0MATERIAL infoobject, it throws following error for all materials irrespetive of its length (example below):
0MATERIAL : Data record 768 ('SIT_PL_B01L_10_01!E '): Version 'SIT_PL_B01L_10_01! ' is not valid
0MATERIAL : Data record 165 ('RLIRS52 E '): Version 'RLIRS52 ' is not valid
Diagnosis
     Data record 768 & with the key 'SIT_PL_B01L_10_01!E &' is invalid in value 'SIT_PL_B01L_10_01! &' of the attribute/characteristic 0MATERIAL.
System Response
     The system has recognized that the value mentioned above is invalid, and has processed this general error message. A subsequent message may give  you more information on the error. This message refers to the same value, even though it does not state this explicitly.
I did search for SAP note related to this... but could not find any.
There is one SAP note (Note 960868) which mentions about this, but the correction was then shipped with BI SP 9.... we are running on SP 18.
Requesting you all experts for help.
Best Regards,
Deepak

Answer 1

Hi,
follow bellow steps:
1. you need to activate the Datasouce in BI side.
Goto RSA1>  Datasource> Select Datasource> Double click> Check fileds and Activate.
2. Replicate the Datasource into BI side.
3. Check the RFC connections by useing SM59.
Regards.