ABT1N - Clarification

Hi all,
My client wants to transfer asset from one company code to another company code. Problem is that in the sender company code depreciation posted. Now the client wants asset has to be transfer with depreciation value.
Is it possible? If yes please reply this thread.
Regards,
Sankar

Sankar,
When you go in the transaction to the tab additional details you have the field transfer variant,
SAP deleverd standard options, if you want you can create you ownone.
I think you have to use 2, don't forget to use the correct asset value date, this is important for the depreciation
1     Gross method
2     Net method
3     Revaluation method
4     Transfer within a company code
5     Summary settlement from CO
6     Line item settlement from CO or from AuC
7     Gross variant (affiliated company)
8     Gross variant (non-affiliated company)

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You said: Q3. When I enabled real time apply does that mean, that I am not in 'MANAGED' mode anymore? Is there an un-managed mode also?
You are always in MANAGED mode when you use the RECOVER MANAGED STANDBY DATABASE command. If you use manual recovery "RECOVER STANDBY DATABASE" (NOT RECOMMENDED EVER ON A STANDBY DATABASE) then you are effectively in 'non-managed' mode although we do not call it that.
You said: Q4. After the switchover, I have noticed that the MRP0 process is "APPLYING LOG" status to a sequence# which is not even the latest sequence# as per v$archived_log. By this I mean:-
Log 46 (in your example) is the last FULL and ARCHIVED log hence that is the latest one to show up in V$ARCHIVED_LOG as that is a list of fully archived log files. Sequence 47 is the one that is current in the Primary online redo log and also current in the standby's standby redo log and as you are using real time apply that is the one it is applying.
You said: What could be the possible reasons why sequence# 42 didn't get applied but the others did?
42 was probably a gap. Select the FAL columns as well and it will proably say 'YES' for FAL. We do not update the Primary's controlfile everytime we resolve a gap. Try the same command on the standby and you will see that 42 was indeed applied. Redo can never be applied out of order so the max(sequence#) from v$archived_log where applied = 'YES' will tell you that every sequence before that number has to have been applied.
You said: After reading several documents I am confused at this stage because I have read that you can setup standby databases using 'standby' logs but is there another method without using standby logs?
Yes, If you do not have standby redo log files on the standby then we write directly to an archive log. Which means potential large data loss at failover and no real time apply. That was the old 9i method for ARCH. Don't do that. Always have standby redo logs (SRL)
You said: Q5. The log switch isn't happening automatically on the primary database where I could see the whole process happening on it own, such as generation of a new logfile, that being transported to the standby and then being applied on the standby.
Could this be due to inactivity on the primary database as I am not doing anything on it?
Log switches on the Primary happen when the current log gets full, a log switch has not happened for the number of seconds you specified in the ARCHIVE_LAG_TARGET parameter or you say ALTER SYSTEM SWITCH LOGFILE (or the other methods for switching log files. The heartbeat redo will eventually fill up an online log file but it is about 13 bytes so you do the math on how long that would take :^)
You are shipping redo with ASYNC so we send the redo as it is commited, there is no wait for the log switch. And we are in real time apply so there is no wait for the log switch to apply that redo. In theroy you could create an online log file large enough to hold an entire day's worth of redo and never switch for the whole day and the standby would still be caught up with the primary.

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