Adding a new Characteristic in live COPA table

Dear Friends
My client is using COPA for reporting purpose. Now the client need to add one more charachteristic in COPA table ie CE1XXXXX for doing better analysis. And the propsed character is maintaining in customer master data also. Can anybody teel me about:
    Is it possible to add a new character in a live COPA table ?
    If possible what all precaution we need to take for adding a new character and what is the impact of the same? or
    My client is having some character field in the COPA Table CE1XXXX which is not using at all. So is it possible for me to use that
    field for the new character.
    If we make any modification in COPA, what will happen to the datas stored in the COPA table ?
Thanks & Regards
Jo
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Hi Jo ,
1. Is it possible to add a new character in a live COPA table ? => Yes , it is possible to add new characteristics in Live- COPA . You have to regenerate the Operating Concern again . Please do the changes at the time.. when no Sales and FI entries are taking place .. as during the time you are changing.. any billing documents created cannot be released to accounting as COPA will not be active at that moment .
2. If possible what all precaution we need to take for adding a new character and what is the impact of the same? => Please do the changes at the time.. when no Sales and FI entries are taking place .. as during the time you are changing.. any billing documents created cannot be released to accounting as COPA will not be active at that moment .
3. My client is having some character field in the COPA Table CE1XXXX which is not using at all. So is it possible for me to use that
field for the new character.=> You can have maximum of 50 characteristics and 120 value fields allowed
in an Operating Concern. If some characteristics are customer defined characteristics and are not used.. you can use them.. but you have to re-think on derivation strategy to derive the characteristics in COPA document .
4. If we make any modification in COPA, what will happen to the datas stored in the COPA table ?=> Data will remain as it is. No changes will be there in old data . But if you want to rederive the new characteristics in the OLD COPA documents .. you have to perform the COPA realignment transaction KEND ..
Hope it clarifies all your queries. Please revert back for any further clarifications
Regards
Sarada

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