Customer Deletion flag

Question

Hi Gurus,
How to delete multiple customers (its not specified from 1 to 10 like, its like customer no: 2, 4,8,10,13,17,89,99,110 like)in one go, In XD06 we can enter only one customer number. I tried T. Code: MASS also, but could not find the solution.
please help me ASAP.
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Vamsi P.

Answer 1

Hi Vamsi,
The CATT is primarly a testing tool and can also be used for mass upload of data. The CATT works as if an user is updating the values one by one.
The procedure to upload the data using CATT is done in four steps
a) Creating the CATT Test Case & Recording the sample data input
b) Download of source data file
c) Modify the source data file
d) Upload the data from source file
I have explained the procedure step by step and do note the following explanation is specific to your problem
Creation of CATT Test Case:
1)Go to TCODE [SCAT]
2)Create a Test Case by entering a name and clicking the TCD button in application tool bar
3)Enter the TCODE you want to execute [XD06]
4)Enter the customer number, company code and sales area data.
5) Select the required deletion flag and/or deletion blocks
6)Click on Save
7)End Recording
8)Click on Save and save as local object
9)Press Exit button and save changes while exiting.
Now we have created a recording for deleting a customer with a sample data.
Ensure while recording the transaction you do not get an warning or error messages else you might have to redo the recordng.
Download of source data file
1)In the [SCAT] screen select your test case and click on change
2)Click on choose button in the application tool bar
3)Click on field list in the application tool bar
4)Double click on the customer number and change the parameter name as &CUSTNO. Any field starting with & would be treated as an input field from a file. If you have to execute the customer deletion across multiple Sales Area you need to do the same for the Sales Area fields too
5)Remove the default value
6)Press Exit and save the test case
7)In the SCAT screen select your test case and in the menu bar Goto -> Variant -> Export Default
8)You would get a text file.
Now you have downloaded a source data file
Modify the source data file
1)Open the text file in Excel and load the remaining data
2)Remove the fourth line which starts with three asterisks
3)Below the customer number heading (&CUSTNO) load all the customers for which the deletion flag has to be set
4)Save the file as Text Delimiter
Now the data to be uploaded as been prepared.
Upload the data from source file
1)Go to [SCAT], select the test case and press F8
2)Select the processing mode as background
3)Chose variant as external from file
4)Click on choose and select the path of the text file
5)Press F8 for the remaing records to be updated
After execution press Enter to see the log. Any line highlighted in Red is an Error for which you need to do further analysis to find out the error reason.
Hope this helps.
Regards
Nadarajah Pratheb