Issue adding records to Infotype 0002

Question

Hi All,
I am trying to insert records into Infotype 0002. I am using HR_INFOTYPE_OPERATION to do this. It works fine for all the employees but fot the ones who have Reference Personnel numbers. The system lets me to add the record to those employees through PA30 online or through BDC program with a warning message "No record with the same key for personnel number xxxxxxx",  but if I use the FM HR_INFOTYPE_OPERATION or HR_MAINTAIN_MASTERDATA, it sometimes gives me hard error message " The Social Insurance number already assigned to another employee" in the foreground and when executed in background I get a short dump with exception " CX_HRPA_INVALID_BUFFER_ACCESS".
I debuged the standard code and the exception occurs in Include UP50RU02 in method IF_HRPA_MASTERDATA_BUFFER~INSERT.
Short dump:
The exception 'CX_HRPA_INVALID_BUFFER_ACCESS' was raised, but it was not caught
  anywhere along
the call hierarchy.
Since exceptions represent error situations and this error was not
adequately responded to, the running ABAP program
  'CL_HRPA_MASTERDATA_BUFFER=====CP' has to be
terminated.
Please let me know if I am doing something wrong.
Thanks,
Danny.

Answer 1

Hi Daniel,
I would not worry about using FM 'HR_INFOTYPE_OPERATION' or 'HR_MAINTAIN_MASTERDATA' for the purpose of inserting PA infotype records for employees. I had developed a generic module last year to insert any PA infotype record which will use the standard PA business logic framework i.e. include all standard checks and validation, calls all Exits/BAdIs before inserting the record as it would when you are saving the infotype record via PA30. I basically created a wrapper FM to simplify the calling of some other standard FMs. Use it if you like (and if it works in your system keeping in mind config is different in every system) but please do handle all the Exceptions after the call (by reading the Message Handler Interface IF_HRPA_MESSAGE_HANDLER) to confirm there was no data inconsistency or other problems at the time of the update. Below is the sample code:
The generic customer Function Module
FUNCTION zpa_insert_any_infty_record.
*"*"Local Interface:
*"  IMPORTING
*"     VALUE(IS_PNNNN) TYPE  ANY
*"     REFERENCE(IT_TEXT_TAB) TYPE  HRPAD_TEXT_TAB OPTIONAL
*"     REFERENCE(IV_NO_AUTH_CHECK) TYPE  BOOLE_D DEFAULT SPACE
*"     REFERENCE(IV_LOCK) TYPE  SPRPS DEFAULT TRUE
*"  EXPORTING
*"     REFERENCE(EIF_MESSAGE_HANDLER) TYPE REF TO
*"        IF_HRPA_MESSAGE_HANDLER
*"     REFERENCE(EV_OK) TYPE  BOOLE_D
*"  EXCEPTIONS
*"      EX_PERNR_LOCKED
* FUNCTION...... ZPA_INSERT_ANY_INFTY_RECORD                           *
* FUNCTION GROUP.ZPA_FG_EMP_LEAVE_BOOKING                              *
* TITLE......... Insert any PA infotype record for an employee         *
* AUTHOR........ Sougata Chatterjee                                    *
* DATE WRITTEN.. 23/08/2010                                            *
* SAP RELEASE... ECC 6.0                                               *
* SPECIFICATION. N/A - Reuseable Object                                *
* =====================================================================*
* DESCRIPTION... This function is a generic module that will insert    *
*                a PA infotype record into the employee master data as *
*                per the import structure IS_PNNNN. This module wil be *
*                particularly useful when requirement is to create     *
*                other infotype records for the same employee within a *
*                User-Exit or a BAdI.                                  *
* ASSUMPTIONS... Infotype record to be updated is a PA Infotype.       *
* =====================================================================*
* MODIFICATION HISTORY                                                 *
* Date       Userid       Change No & Description                      *
  DATA:
    lif_msg_handler  TYPE REF TO if_hrpa_message_handler,
    lo_msg_handler   TYPE REF TO cl_hrpa_message_list.
* instantiate the message handler object
  CREATE OBJECT lo_msg_handler.
* assign a reference to a rereference variable using the CAST operation
  lif_msg_handler ?= lo_msg_handler.
* insert the infotype record into the employee master data
  PERFORM insert_infotype USING    is_pnnnn
                                   it_text_tab
                                   iv_no_auth_check
                                   iv_lock
                                   lif_msg_handler
                          CHANGING ev_ok.
* pass back the message handler to the calling program if it was requested
  CHECK eif_message_handler IS REQUESTED.
  eif_message_handler = lif_msg_handler.
ENDFUNCTION.
For some reason I couldn't format the subroutine code here in SDN as it is scrambling the whole page but you could use the link here to find the [subroutine code|http://www.mediafire.com/file/9923qui7dm4xqpg/Form%20Insert_Infotype.html] and an [example code|http://www.mediafire.com/file/ihg83agkf0mbc9k/z_calling_program.html] for the program calling this FM including exception handling etc.
Let me know if the links are not working...I'm happy to email them to you if you want.
Hope this helps.
Cheers,
Sougata.