Conversion exit ALPHA, external- internal

What does the below Alpha Conversion do :
<b>Conversion exit ALPHA, external->internal</b>
An example wud help me understand better!!

Hi,
A conversion routine is identified by its five-place name and is stored as a group of two function modules. The function modules have a fixed naming convention. The following function modules are assigned to conversion routine xxxxx:
CONVERSION_EXIT_xxxxx_INPUT
CONVERSION_EXIT_xxxxx_OUTPUT
The INPUT module performs the conversion from display format to internal format. The OUTPUT module performs the conversion from internal format to display format.
E.g. If you specify ALPHA conversion for Material number then when user enters the value for MATNR as 123; internally it is converted to 0000123 and is stored in that format in the database. In this case, conversion is done from external format to internal format and the other way if you are reading value from database; it is converted from internal to external format and value is shown as 123, instead of 0000123.
Hope this helps.
PB

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Try BAPI_CURRENCY_CONV_TO_INTERNAL.
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I think the values that you have given for source values (Agency and scheme)
and Target values (Agency and scheme) may be mismatching so kindly chek that...even i got the same error in the past..........
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In the Flat File that we are loading to BPS Cube (using the HOW-TO Paper in SDN), if User is having a value 100000006 for Customer and value 10200058 for Material then the flat file upload exit fails. It works only when user changes the value for Customer to 000000000100000006 and value for Material to 0010200058.
I believe, you must have understood my point.
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We have many characteristics (25-30) in our file and I do not want to write a separate Exit to do any conversion like ALPHA, that would really slow down the performance.
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We have a field in the file called 'Manager Name'. Now this field can really have any value. It is not possible for us to load master data in BW for this field. If BPS is suffering from this basic limitation then I am afraid, we can not use it for loading flat file. We have to use only BW
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Edited by: Adi Kulkarni on Aug 13, 2009 3:13 PM

Hi Deepti,
I appreciate your link. That document is very good although it does not solve my problem.
Please note that I am talking about loading a flat file to BPS Cube here and there may be hundreds of values which still do not exist in master data. Your suggested HOW-TO document will be helpful when someone tries to enter data in a planning layout as we do not expect users to enter so many records in planning layout.
I am also aware that we can simply create a Z-Transaction Code (similar to RSD1) to update master data values for a particular InfoObject and Users can be given access to this code. But that is not what I intend to do.
I am looking for a broader and generic solution.
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Adi
Edited by: Adi Kulkarni on Aug 13, 2009 3:32 PM

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