Help Required --- TO_CHAR function for formatting DATE

Tue, 20 Jan 2004 17:39:11 GMT.
I want the output in the above mentioned format . Can any one help me ,Please.
I tried some thing like this.......
select to_char(sysdate,'Dy, DD Mon yyyy HH24:MI:SS') from dual; and them Append GMT to it. Is this correct the way ? :D.

You can append the results of the following (assuming the database timezone is GMT):
select dbtimezone from dual;

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When we run the MD01, the Planned orders are getting created at both MRP areas plus at the Plant level.we donot want the planned orders creation at Plant MRP area level-only at the storage location level for those two storage locations MRP areas.
Can anybody guide me -how to achieve that ? Did we miss any configuration?
I tried to maintain scope of planning & getting error for parallel processing .
Do i need to maintain parallel procesing with servers ?
Pls need your input on this. Any help will be highly appreciated .
Thank you in advance.
Regards,
Krish.

Hi Krish,
Go to following IMG path and check out your settings -
IMG>>>Production>>>MRP>>>Master Data>>>>MRP Areas>>>
(1) Activate MRP for MRP Areas -
Is that activated?
(2)Define MRP areas>>>> Do setting s as per Storage Location
Then run MRP.
MRP Areas
In this IMG activity you define whether MRP is to be carried out with MRP areas. In addition, you define the MRP areas for each plant in which you would like to carry out this type of materials requirements planning.
The MRP area represents an organizational unit which carries out materials requirements planning independently. The results of the planning run are displayed specifically for each MRP area. An MRP area can include one or several storage locations of a plant or stock with a subcontractor.
You can assign a material to various MRP areas.
Basically, there are three types of MRP areas:
Plant MRP Area
Initially, the plant MRP area includes the plant with all its storage locations and stock with subcontractors. When you have defined MRP areas for storage locations and for subcontractors and you have assigned the materials, the plant MRP area is reduced by exactly this number of subcontractors and storage locations, as they are now to be planned separately.
MRP Areas for Storage Locations
You can define an MRP area that consists of a particular storage location by creating an MRP area and assigning the storage location to it. Material requirements for this storage location are then planned separately from the rest of the plant. You can also group several storage locations into one MRP area by creating an MRP area and assigning the storage locations. These storage locations are then planned together.
MRP Areas for Subcontractors
You can also define an MRP area for each subcontractor. Using an MRP area, it is possible to plan the components to be provided in subcontracting, by defining an MRP area for each subcontractor and assigning the components to be provided. You can therefore plan the requirements to be provided for these components for one subcontractor separately from the usual requirements.
Up to now, MRP at plant level had been carried out. The various requirements were combined in the planning run and procurement elements were created for these pegged requirements with unknown sources.
The introduction of MRP areas enables you to carry out material requirements planning and know the source of the pegged requirements and to be able to distinguish between them. The source of the pegged requirements can be, for example, production on a particular assembly line or a subcontract order.
Material requirements planning for each MRP area allows you to have specific control over the staging and procurement of important in-house production parts and purchased parts for each shop floor and assembly area.
Hope this will give you more idea about the same.
Satish

Looking for Calendar functionality for a Date Variable

Hi Experts,
Currently iam creating a WEBI Report where the source system is SAP BI System. I have a BEx Query with some characteristics at the row level and keyfigures at the column level. I have a Date Interval Variable (Based on 0DATE and optional), where the user will input the From and To date to execute the query. I have created the universe on top of this query, but date inteval variable appears as a character in the form of LOV. When i use this universe and buid the report in WEBI, the User Prompt for date is appearing as List of date values for this date interval variable, where as my requirement is to have date calendar for this date interval variable.
I did some r&d on top of this, when the date varibale as single value and optional, iam able to get the date calendar, but when i use the Date interval Varibale it takes as a character. I searched the forum, but i didn't find any solution.
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Ingo
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select sysdate, to_char(sysdate, 'dd/mm/yyyy hh:mm:ss') as FORMATTED_DATE from dual
Results:
SYSDATE
10/02/2009 16:52:32
FORMATTED_DATE
10/02/2009 04:02:32

select sysdate, to_char(sysdate, 'dd/mm/yyyy hh:mm:ss') as FORMATTED_DATE from dual
Results:
SYSDATE
10/02/2009 16:52:32
FORMATTED_DATE
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Hi,
Our database is UTF8 enabled infact we are using AL32UTF8 encoding. When we are running the following query then the results are displayed in Japanese instead of English for the 'DAY' and 'DY' clause.
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DAY YEAR DY MON
火曜日 TWO THOUSAND SIX 火 JAN
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nls_dual_currency string
nls_iso_currency string
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The date literals I used are in the
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Any rows with date/time values of that date, but with a non-zero time of day would consequently fall outside the range.
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i need a function that i bring begda and endda and give the month btween.
like
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i reward
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Hi Shnya,
Use Transaction SU3.
Click on tab "DEFAULTS" (Middleone)
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Hi All,
Hope you are doing good !!!
I have a requirement where i need to write an UDF(user defined function). Please help me in writing the code for below logic-
I am getting my Input as 111213 where 11 denotes HH 12 denotes mm 13 denotes ss. I need ti insert : between hh:mm:ss
Please help me achieving a code for below logic
I have used standard date transformate function, there i am getting spaces as separator in my input resulting an errors i am sending without spaces.
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Hello,
I am getting my Input as 111213 where 11 denotes HH 12 denotes mm 13 denotes ss. I need ti insert : between hh:mm:ss
Please help me achieving a code for below logic
I have used standard date transformate function, there i am getting spaces as separator in my input resulting an errors i am sending without spaces.
What do you mean by spaces? Can you try the mapping below?
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Hi,
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i am getting the following details from the user in a .CSV file.
Vendor no, vendor name, amount, document date, posting datem reference vendor line item text and Gl account line item text.
i am using BAPI BAPI_ACC_DOCUMENT_POST to post the document.
Now my req is if the amount is in negative then
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if its positive amounts
use posting key of 24 against vendor and 50 against the GL account.
Now by default, when the amount is negative the function is working fine.
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can any one tel me, where should i pass these value in the BAPI?
or is there any other way of doing it?
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Hi,
the posting keys 31/21 (01/11 and 40/50) are hard coded and cannot be populated from the interface. This is because a different posting key could have a different posting logic from what is implemented in the BAPI.
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i have below code but not sure how to resolve this problem - what i need is to be able to dynamically
the problem:
i have a rabbge of paratmeters coming in from a form and need to be able to create a dynamic query string to go into a prepared statement object.
the problem i have is there are 2 fields year range and year.
if year range is none i need to create the query string as such :
where the value of year can be serached on exactly
str.append("VOLUME_YEAR = ? ");the probelm is if the year range is 5 or year range is 10 i dont know how to maipulate the query string to be able to set the string such that i can then place the year value in the place holder in preparedStatement.setInt(1, year)
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thanks for any help.
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Saish - thanks a lot for the code example.
Although, i think its far too advanced for me to understand and try to manipulate it and fit my problem. I'm pretty new to programming as you can probably see from my simple if else type statements. But i'm going to give it a try and see how it goes.
could you please be kind enough to demonstrate how i could use the above syntax to do the following. --
i have a year being entered in form . in the database there is a column year volume which contains year in single year value format and also in a year range value format - thus as in below - how could i do this -
eg.
user can enter a value in the year field a single value or a range value - then he can select +/-5 or 10 yrs range on that value - the DB holds the values as single values and ranges as below -
one suggested apporach is as follows if a single user is alloweed to enter only a single value in the filed and select a query range +/- 5 etc..
volume year of �1926-1928� and the user enters �1927�, the query has to find all records where
look for records that are �less than or equal to� 1927. It then has to check to see if it contains a range. For those that it finds containing a range, it has to work out what the �upper� year is and check to see if that is �greater than or equal� to 1927. If it is, then that is a possible matchanother approach that is suggested is to have a drop down with all years from databse and user is only llowed to select value from drop down and following logic is suggested :
Because volumes can be received as ranges (e.g. 1964-1966), some extra coding is required where the user asks for a Year Range (such as + or � 5).
Using the Year selected from the dropdown list, split it into 2 values, a low year and a high year. For example, if �1965-1968� is selected from the year dropdown, split it into �1965� and �1968� for the low year and high year respectively. If �1964� is selected from the year dropdown, split it into �1964� and �1964�. Now take the Year Range that the user has entered into account. For example, if the user has entered 5, subtract 5 from the low year and add 5 to the high year. Using these values, include the following search criteria in the query to the database:-
(<low year> BETWEEN
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 AND right (VOLUME_YEAR, charindex ('-',VOLUME_YEAR + '-') - 1))
OR (<high year> BETWEEN
 left (VOLUME_YEAR, charindex ('-',VOLUME_YEAR + '-') - 1)
 AND right (VOLUME_YEAR, charindex ('-',VOLUME_YEAR + '-') - 1))regards - i think if i could solve the first approach that would be something good as its most user freindly
thanks

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