Conversion Routines - R3 and BW

I need to create a custom InfoObject in BW to map to an R3 field in an InfoSource. The R3 field has the ABPSP converions routine applied to it. As a rule of thumb is it always best to apply the same conversion routine to the matching BW InfoObject? Is there a time that I wouldn't want to match the conversion routine of the R3 field to the matching BW InfoObject? Your help is appreciated.

Hi David,
Conversion routines in BW will aid in eliminating the technical differences of data format to be acceptable by the BW system. You cannot directly map R/3 Conversion routine to BW Conversion routine as far as my knowledge goes. Please map the infoobject in BW with the R/3 field directly and check if the converted data is directly coming into BW from the R/3 system as you said there is a conversion already existing in R/3. If this doesnot solve your problem, then you can create your own conversion routines using SM37 t.code wherein you will create your conversion rule specifying CONVERSION_EXIT_XXXXX_INPUT and CONVERSION_EXIT_XXXXX_OUTPUT. Where XXXXX is a 5 letter user-specified name of the Conversion. INPUT code is written for converting sourcesystem data to be acceptable into BW tables. OUTPUT is written to converting the BW data into acceptable reporting display. You need to activate both the function modules created in order to use them during infoobject property settings. While using them you can directly see the XXXXX (user-specific) conversion during infoobject conversion settings.
Hope this might be helpful to you. Award points if useful.
Thanks
Kishore Kumar

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hi,
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$$ begin of global - insert your declaration only below this line -
TABLES: ...
DATA: ...
$$ end of global - insert your declaration only before this line -
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below the code is mentioned...................
*******************************C O D E*******************************************
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Hi,
this problem is solved in transformation PSA to InfoObject using formula or routine.
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Edited by: Conrado Linquet on Mar 29, 2010 5:54 PM

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