Material length

hi
this is my scenerio
my DS is 0material_text
i am getting 0material, text and lanu
at transfer rules 0 material is mapped with produect (char) with length 40. they have wirtten 1 rountine chnage length from 18 to 40 to target field.
this infosource is assigned my cubes already uisng at production.
now their requirement is in future they may create some more cubes . they need the infosource ( that material) lenthg will be same.
they can use same infosource , they can write update routine for new cubes. they dont wnat like, they want field with 18 length at infosource level
i suggested this solution
create Z datasource (generic extraction withtext) assign this new ds to any new infosource and use this new infosource for new cubes?
please let me know my suggested solution is correct ?
or please let em know any best solution is theer for this scenerio

Hi Suneel......
0material_text is a master data..............did u mean that u have used same infosource for both master data and transaction data.........but how.........as per my knowledge it is not possible.........
Whatever....ur solution is ok........
But u can do another thing...........u will include product infoobject in those infocubes......right........
Now before transaction data we will load master data......Now u..........in the General tab page of the characteristic infoobject ........there is a option to create Transfer routine...........this routine is a global routine......and there u can write code to chnage length from 18 to 40 to target field............
Here u hav to write code only once............but if u write it at infosource level..........it will be local.........infosource specific......
Hope this helps.....
Regards,
Debjani.........

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