Activating Data in ODS

Hi
I have got one ODS, for which my infopackage is desigen as do not update data if no master data exists for a characteristic.
But one of my request which is having only the entries in master data, is not getting activated in ODS.Its failing with the error "No SID found for value '00DU023R ' of characteristic 0MATERIAL". but the material 00DU023R is not there in the request at all.
Doest anyone phased this scenario before? how to activate the data in ODS?
Regards
Sriram

Hi Sriram,
What SSree is trying to see.
Go to your ODS, right click manage.
In the requests tab, choose a very old date and choose refresh.  Now check if you see any red requests.  These requests will prevent from activating.
On the other hand, when I see your first error, I would go to transaction RSRV, and do some consistency checks on your ODS and master data.
kr,
Tom

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        Application server....... "psapdb"
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        Operating system......... "AIX"
        Release.................. "5.3"
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