Problem with BAPI_CUSTOMER_CREATEFROMDATA1 using JCo on IDES

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Problem with BAPI_CUSTOMER_CREATEFROMDATA1 using JCo on IDES
Hello everyone,
we are working on a student project and would like to create customers (debtors) in an SAP IDES system.
Using the ref-customer to copy from, and some personal-data below, we get the error message
'Internal error: External no.assignment for reference customer/customer'
We also tried with BAPI_CUSTOMER_GETINTNUMBER, and ACCOUNTGROUP ZINT (New Internet Customer, others won't work?). But CREATEFROMDATA1 takes no CustomerNo created this way, nor it wants to create one 'internal'?
Any suggestions? Thanks a lot for your help,
Greetings,
Tobias Schmidbauer
          inParams = function.getImportParameterList().getStructure(
               "PI_COPYREFERENCE");
          inParams.setValue("0000001000", "REF_CUSTMR");
          inParams.setValue("1000", "SALESORG");
          inParams.setValue("10", "DISTR_CHAN");
          inParams.setValue("00", "DIVISION");
          inParams =function.getImportParameterList().getStructure(
               "PI_PERSONALDATA");
          inParams.setValue("Simpson", "LASTNAME");
          inParams.setValue("Homer", "FIRSTNAME");
          inParams.setValue("Jay","MIDDLENAME");
          inParams.setValue("Springfield", "CITY");
          inParams.setValue("DE", "LANGU_P");
          inParams.setValue("DE", "LANGUP_ISO");
          inParams.setValue("DE", "COUNTRY");
          inParams.setValue("EUR", "CURRENCY");
          inParams.setValue("12345", "POSTL_COD1");
Message was edited by: Tobias Schmidbauer

Answer 1

Hello Brian,
Thanks for your pointer. Actually The customer's reference number i was providing in the PI_COPYREFERENCE structure was a sold-to party customer and it uses external customer number assignment. When i used "New Internet Customer" (that doesnt use external assignment by default) as customer's account group, the customer was created successfully and assigned customer number was returned.
I want to ask now how could we give a customer number in the BAPI as i am unable to find any such column in any of the tables. (Customer number is an "out" parameter so it can only return the number of created customer). Secondly, how to chnage the external assignment property of a particular account group (like sold-to party). i.e, how could we change the account group configurations through SAP GUI??
- Umair