Compensation Approval (ECM) - Error calculating salary (HRECM00MASTERDATA)

Question

Hello,
We have setup the MSS ECM Compensation package for Planning and Approving. It works fine until we try to approve the compensation plan.
We get the error message "Error calculating salary", message class HRECM00MASTERDATA - Activation of Compensation process, Salary Calculation.
All the relevant customizing steps have been undertaken, master data has been properly populated in the respectuve infotpyes 0008 etc, we are even able to run a payroll for this employee, without issues !
We have searched the OSS but nothing relevant has been found.
Has anyone come across such as case ?
Thank you for your input,
Regards,
Martin

Answer 1

Hi ,
We have a similar situation here. Can you please help me on this?
We have a production issue while running the extractor 0HR_PA_EC_01. We are able to load data using this extractor into an ODS. But at the end of the job we are getting 'Extraction (messages): Errors occurred' in the details and job is ending with status red. So we are doing activation of this failed request in the ODS manually everyday in the middle of the night and repeating the next process so that the process chain can go forward. At present I'm working on trouble shooting this issue. When I run RSA3 it looks good and passing no messages. When I do 'DISPLAY MESSAGES' the follwoing messages are displayed:
Errors: RED
' 05/27/2008 16:41:38 Reference salary of John Doe is zero on 15.05.2008 HRECM00MASTERDATA 13'
' 05/27/2008 16:41:38 Error calculating compa-ratio of John Doe on 15.05.2008 HRECM00MASTERDATA 14'
Warnings: YELLOW
' 05/27/2008 16:41:38 Warnings have appeared when extracting data R3 401'
Messages: GREEN
' 05/27/2008 16:41:38 Data packet 000001 had 2 records selected for it RSM 335
We informed our HR users about the above errors and they said the data looks good and it should be zeros for the above said employee. Bottom line they are not going to change anything on R/3 side. They are asking us to handle on BW side to skip such type of errors.
I tried my best in various places and I'm not getting any clue on how to handle this situation. Can you please throw some light on this situation? I would like to know what program on R/3 side or BW side issues these type of errors and how to skip these errors? Can I use user exits or tranfer rules or update rules to handle this situation? Is there any table to read such type of messages? What are different programs that run while extracting data from R/3 to BW and the flow or order?
I would really appreciate your help on this.
Regards,
Seenu