LSMW recording SM30, prompt for customizing request

Question

Hi everyone,
I'm trying to use lsmw for uploading data into a customizing table. For this I recorded the creation of an entry with transaction sm30. At the end of the recording (when saving) the prompt for a customizing request pops up. When executing the resulting batch input, it get's confused (in my opinion because of the transport request popup in the recording).
Is there a way to prevent the popup?
I've read in a different thread that I can create 1 entry, then do the recording for the lsmw in the same session. This sounds good to me, but I don't see how to do this.
If anybody has an idea how to solve this, it would be great.
Regards,
Monika.

Answer 1

Hi
No u can't prevent that popup, because u're trying to update a customing table: you should considere two main things:
- The call of the request popup can depend on the kind of the client, i.e how the client (dev, test or prod) is set;
- If the cleint is closed, so the modifications are not allowed (for example in production system), your lsmw project can't works.
Anyway by SE11 u can try to create a maitenance view table based on the database table u need to update, leave cutomizing flag and generate the maintenance program (for trx SM30) for this new view: probably now it shouldn't show the popup for the transport (but I'n not sure), if it works u can use it in your project.
It's very hard to manage a table control in LSMW, u can't know how many recodrs u need to update and u can't change the bdc program generated for lsmw.
In this situation the best solution is to insert only one record: i.e. for every record u need to update:
- CALL SM30
- Press NEW ENTRY
- Insert the new record to the top of table control
- Save
- exit
In this way your bdc program doesn't depend on the number of records, as you manage only one record, i.e your project will create a bdc session with as many transaction as many records to be inserted.
Max