HR Employee Address Change BAPI - CONFIGURATION ISSUE

Question

Dear HR Gurus,
I have a typical issue in BAPI_ADDRESSEMPUS_CHANGE:
I am trying to change/update employee address using the above bapi from non-SAP application.  I have tested this scenario on 4 different SAP instances.  The BAPI work fine on 2 different instance 1) 4.6C and 2) 4.7
And It doesn't work on the other two instances 1) 4.7 and 2) 5.0 .  I get : [Mesg: Processing in SAP failed. BAPI returned message: Type: "E", Number: "055", Text:"Make an entry in all required fields".], Even though i am entering the same values as i enterd while testing with other two instances. 
I guess, If this is a bug SAP would have fixed it in 4.7 or 5.0 at least, since one of our 4.6C instance works fine.  I believe it's a CONFIGURATION ISSUE.
Any one of you encountered this problem ever?  Any thoughts on this would highly appreciated.
Thanks
Madan

Answer 1

Hi Madan,
You are right, it looks like a configuration issue. Config dictates which screens and which fields of those screens are required, optional or not displayed. From your description, it looks like the config on two of them matches with your input and in the other two, it does not. Check the config. Here is the path.
Implementation Guide for R/3 Customizing (IMG)
-->Financial Accounting
   -->Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable
      -->Customer Accounts
         -->Master Records
            -->Preparations for Creating Customer Master Records
               -->Define Account Groups with Screen Layout (Customers)
               -->Define Screen Layout per Company Code (Customers)
               -->Define Screen Layout per Activity (Customers)
Srinivas