SAP MDM Validation

Hi All,
I am trying to create validation where start date should be equal to current date. Is there a way to write a expression?
Regards
Jasbir

Hi Jasbir,
Current date: LEFT(SYSTIME(0),11)
Start date: LEFT(startdate,11)
Use condition: If else then
If(LEFT(SYSTIME(0),11)=LEFT(startdate,11), True, False)
You can refer the below link:
Assign constant time to field in DM
Thanks,
Priti

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Hi Experts,
I would like to validate E-mail and VAT Registration no's while adding new vendor details in MDM.
these validations should be equal to ECC validations because I need to syndicate Vendor repository details from MDM to ECC.
is there any standard validations available from SAP for standard repsotories?
If no standard validations available from SAP for standard repositories then any guildlines to implement same ECC validation logic in MDM?
Thanks,
RDNPrasad

Hi Prasad,
You can additionally go through the below links to know more on how MDM validations works:
/people/klaus.david/blog/2005/09/16/mdm-validations(validations)
/people/markus.ganser/blog/2005/09/28/new-webinar-about-validations-with-mdm-55 (mdm validations)
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/wiki?path=/display/mdm/code%2bto%2bget%2blist%2bof%2bvalidation%2bin%2ba%2btable(validations)
Hope It Helped
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Filter the results set for custom iviews in SAP MDM

We have a scenario where based on the user name/user role we want to filter the results retrieved by an search result iview developed for accessing data from SAP MDM Repository.
E.g.
We have a lookup table called Plants which contains master data pertaining to manufacturing plants.
The portal user P00100xxyy is responsible for maintaining master data for a plant 1101. However, the plant lookup contains data for other plants as well.
We would like to prevent the user P00100xxyy to see/modify data for other plants in the table.
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Hi Rajni thanx for ur prompt reply
The actual problem is that :
we have approx near about 100 Account Group, so it would become very complex to replicate same condition 100 times
AND
these account group may keep on increasing so even maintenance point of view it would be hard to maintain.
can u tell me some other way to do it, i mean is there any other feature by which we can perform validation in MDM.
Regards
Kuldeep

MDM-Validations Query Examaples , Tutorial , Material

Hi Experts,
Please, provide me with some Examples for MDM-Validations Query or some material with some detailed Example of Queries
written .... for example Query for Compulsary field .... etc...
regards,
Jay.

Hi Jay,
As you seem to be clear with alternatives, i would be sharing about Masterdata management (i.e. MDM) from my perspective.
In general,benefits of keeping Master data in 1 place is
Conformance/Auditing
Single view of customer
Global data synchronization efforts
Accurate reporting
Consolidation after mergers and acquisitions
Reduced effort to consolidate information
Reduced cleansing/mapping of information
Increased efficiency
Reduced costs overall.
with this much details you can refer to the URLs which have detailed infomation about every aspects of MDM:
For detailed overview
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_mdm550/helpdata/en/47/1c5928cd0412b8e10000000a1553f7/content.htm
To know about Key capabilities:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_mdm550/helpdata/en/46/b8065a4df01517e10000000a114a6b/content.htm
Read reference Guide of various modules of MDM:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_mdm550/helpdata/en/88/9f9c427055c66ae10000000a155106/content.htm
Kindly go through these threads which will give you additional info:
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/wiki?path=/display/profile/new%2bto%2bmdm%2b~%2bhow%2bis%2bcareer%2bin%2bsap-mdm
Before you, many XI consultants have showed their eagerness to learn MDM. Kindly go through htese links to know more about the same:
Newbie to MDM
/thread/683426 [original link is broken]
These links will also lead you to additional links which will guide you how to learn MDM.
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/wiki?path=/display/profile/new%2bto%2bmdm%2b~%2bhow%2bto%2blearn%2bsap-mdm
Learning MDM -- A short guide for rookies

Business Object Data Services (BODI) without SAP MDM?

Hi,
From an architectural point of view; do you always have to use SAP MDM when you want to use the Business Object Data Services (e.g. for data validity checks when creating customers)?
Or can you use Business Object Data Services in combination with SAP ECC without MDM?
Best regards,
Marius

All Depends on your business needs.
1) As in if you want to use most effective cleansing (BODS contains inbult infor for Adderess cleansing) along with some data governance(Validation, assignments,MDM Workflow) I would say fo with BO-MDM Integration.
2) Here I am not sure via BODS - ECC you can handle ongoing maintainance , it is supreb for first time data load.
so it is better if you use ECC-BO-MDM ---> BI/ECC for smooth transition through out landscape.
3) Here also try to check the data structure compactiblity between BODS and ECC as per their version, it can also create a big impact.
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Rgds
Deep

SAP MDM features

Hi
Could someone tell me if SAP MDM has these features?
u2022     Security
u2022     Ability to maintain and assign security at Site level
u2022     Ability to maintain and assign security at Area ( Logical Grouping like SNOP) level
u2022     Ability to maintain and assign security at Role ( Logical grouping like SCDH, GMP) level
u2022     Ability to maintain and assign security at Object ( Can be a page or a subset on a page) level
u2022     Ability to maintain and assign actions-object combination to a role
u2022     Ability to maintain and assign security at Row Level
u2022     Ability to maintain and assign security at Column Level
u2022     Ability to inherit role characteristics to another role
u2022     Ability for one role characteristics to override the characteristics chosen for another role, while inherting ( Denial to update an Object for a role, should remain the same even if the role gets inherited
u2022     Ability to audit any changes to Security on any Role/Object/Action (Will be tracked against BR5.1)
u2022
u2022     Ability to handle Master Detail relationship
u2022     Ability to handle MultiLevel data Hierarchy
u2022     Ability to handle Dependency List
u2022     Ability to maintain detail data in tabs on the same page
u2022     Ability to mandate the need to enter Detail data for a new Master record, or tie a new Detail record to an existing Master record
u2022
u2022     Ability to handle import and export of predefined formats
u2022     Ability to import and parse CSV, XLS and TXT files
u2022     Ability to import and parse XML files
u2022     Ability to export data in PDF format
u2022
u2022     Ability to handle Approval Process for data entered
u2022     Ability to configure Approvers with Approval Levels at the time of object configuration
u2022     Ability to prevent an Approver with lower Approval Level to approve data, before the higher level Approvals are obtained
u2022     Ability to send an email to the required approvers, with the link to the page/object needing approval
u2022     Ability to authenticate the NT login of the approver, accessing a page/object via a link on an email
u2022     Ability to approve through email, by linking to a webservice
u2022     Ability for the user to nominate a proxy for a given time duration
u2022     Ability to control deletion of an approver through Admin access
u2022     Ability to identify data that has not been approved and prevent database access to it.
u2022     Ability to provide read-only access to data that has not been approved
u2022     Ability to message out changes/addition on Master data to all Subscribers.
u2022     Ability to message out potential changes on Master data to all Subscribers
u2022     Ability to add an approver/subscriber to any step of the entire approval process
u2022     Ability to prevent any further actions like export/import to data that has not been approved
u2022
u2022     Ability to provide Historical Reports to identify how tool is used and highlight areas with most frequent changes
u2022     Ability to capture and view all historical changes to user access
u2022     Ability to capture and view all historical changes to data
u2022     Ability to capture data range for all Master data, to indicate the validity of a data element.
u2022
u2022     Ability to provide a Dashboard to display data entered
u2022     Ability to provide read-only access to any data maintained throught the MDM
u2022     Ability to capture each page/object added to the MDM, and provide it as a drop-down list for the user to choose from
u2022     Ability to choose filter and view data for each page/object chosen
u2022
u2022     Ability to access Help Documentation / List of Contacts for each screen
u2022     Ability to maintain a Help document for each page/object
u2022     Ability to maintain Tool Tips for each column in a Page
u2022     Ability to provide a List of Contacts for each page/object
u2022
u2022     Ability to access data via a Web Service
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u2022
u2022     Ability to provide Maintenance features
u2022     Ability to provide Grid Feature which allows Search, Sort, Grouping and Pagenation capabilities for all maintenance screens
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u2022     Ability to provide timeout on inactivity, on the site
u2022
u2022     Ability to add Favorites
u2022     Ability to add Recently Accessed Pages as Favourites, at a Site Level
u2022     Ability to choose views of a page and make it a Favourite, so that every consequent login, gives the same look for the same Object
u2022
u2022     Ability to Support MultiLanguage
u2022     Ability to provide Labels/Legends in Multilanguage
u2022
u2022     Business Rules to Validate Data

Hello mkhairi
For more of your question answer -YES
SAP MDM support trusted connection technology and LDAP
SAP MDM has own user role functionality where you can set permissions for user security
SAP MDM has JAVA,ABAP, COM, .NET(ver.7.1) API and you can use it for custom development
SAP MDM has own web service for work with data in repository
SAP MDM has own packages for development SAP NetWeaver Portal content
SAP MDM has own workflow integrated with SAP NetWeaver Portal trough UWL
SAP MDM has application for web publishing
and many many other functionality from your list
more about SAP MDM you can read here:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nwmdm71/helpdata/en/index.htm
Regards
Kanstantsin Chernichenka

Limitations in SAP MDM!!

Dear Experts,
Does anyone know about Limitations in SAP MDM!!
Could you please let me know in detail??
Kind Regards
Eva M

Hi Eva,
What type of limitations are you refering to.
One of the major limitations that we have faced in our implementation is if the file size is too big, may be cause of the number of records and the fields mapped out it gets very difficult to manually syndicate the file. If you have any other specific issues could help on that.
In addition some general issue are
Sharing of Lookup tables (e.g. country) across repositories not supported. Linking of objects residing in 2 repositories is not supported with SAP NetWeaverMDM 5.5, natively.Workarounds via the integration into SAP NetWeaver Portal
Use of u201Ceventing technologyu201D mapping of key fields and match of respective values Not sufficient for each and every use case
There is no Migration options. One needs to manually make the changes right from development through to the production environment.
there are lots of limitations on Qualified Lookups in MDM 5.5 and also in MDM 7.1....
1) Can't write Assignments...
2) Failed validation won't specify which qualified link has failed.
3) Compare records won't show link wise comparison of qualified links.
4) Can't start qualified link level workflows.
5) Role level constraints not applicable for Qualified lookup and tables referencing from QL directly or indirectly.
6) Qualified link level check-in check-out operations are not possible.
7) Qualified link level unique constraints are not possible (this becomes pain if links get duplicated by mistake)
8) Duplication of QL link is not allowed in data manager (for copying Qualifier values in new Qualified link).
9) Tuple is replacement for qualified lookup, but its more restrictive than QL (validation are not allowed on multivalued tuple).
One Major limitation that was there in 5.5 was we could only maintain a single Maintable. 7.1 solves that problem.
The following link gives some good examples:
http://www.it-director.com/technology/data_mgmt/content.php?cid=10837
Do let me know in case you need more help or if i was able to help answer your question

Web services @ SAP MDM

Hello Experts,
What is the use of web services for SAP MDM??
And how can we achive it!!!
Can anyone take sometime in explaining it in simple words..
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Kind Regards
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Hi Eva,
MDM Web services are open interfaces to the MDM Server and provide synchronous access to MDM for the consumer of the Web services. They are based on the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) and Web Services Description Language (WSDL) standards.
MDM Web services are used to customize and build functionality into an application and can be integrated into various business scenarios to provide the following capabilities:
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Refer attached Link for more informatin
[http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nwmdm71/helpdata/en/49/06eac7dc78132ee10000000a421937/frameset.htm]
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SAP MDM workflow erroe while launching

Hi Experts,
I am using SAP MDM 7.1 (7.1.04.142).Whenever I am trying to launch a workflow I am getting this error
One or more records have following validation failures:
Invalid validation recordId(s) in val;idate field
Any help please
Thanks
Vinay

Hi Vinay,
As per this SAP Note: Workflow stop at Stop Check-in.
Are you using Check out at Start step in your workflow ?
So I would also suggest try to launch the workflow who is Owner of the workflow. May be that user has not right to launch the workflow.
Also check who can send next step in your Start step of MDM workflow, Owner/Launcher/Any user ?
For testing, Create a new record in your Data Manager then Add this record to Workfow job manually by right click on this record Workflows>Add to Job>workflow name and check are you able to complete this work-flow or not?
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Mandeep Saini

Implement MDM Validations

Hi MDM Experts
I have a requirenemt where in I need to Implement all the validations on MATERIAL repository similar to standard SAP, is there a way I can achieve this either using JAVA API / web services.
The only idea is no to create validations in MDM.
Appreciate your thoughts and feedback.
Regards
Vickey

Hi Vickey,
If you are using the MDM system for the Master data maintainence process and the MDM tool is capable to handle the SAP standard validations in MDM ,then the better decision would be to go for MDM internal validations.
However if your business process requires validations to be done outside MDM ,then thsi can also be achieved.
If you are using the SAP NW application as teh front end with your MDM rep at the backend.Then you will have to design the webdynpro screens in NWDS .
These screens will then fetch data to and fro from your backend system.
You can use the Validations on this front end by doing extensive coding using the MDM Java Api packages and logic.
To know more on the use of MDM Java API kindly refer the below links:
http://help.sap.com/javadocs/MDM/SP06P2/index.html
SAP NetWeaver Master Data Management Java API u2013 New features in SP06 Webinar Details
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/event/webinars?rid=/library/uuid/209cad46-e080-2a10-7390-a5a43bd0ad2f
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Hello ASUG Community.
I'm working on an SAP-MDM project where we will configure the OCI interface between SAP-ECC 6.0 and SAP-MDM. The business requirement will be to punch out to SAP-MDM's catalog from SAP-ECC for expensed items (e.g., no material master record exists in SAP-ECC).
The data that will be returned to SAP-ECC will be purchase price info, material group, short text, & our global SAP-MDM item number.
The question I've been trying to design around is "where to store the SAP-MDM item number"?
I've looked into creating a custom filed on EKPO but now feel that a configured text field will be the best solution from an SAP-ECC point of view (less effort on the SAP-ECC side from a development perspective, no need to regenerate the EKPO table, etc.).
The question I'd like to pose to ASUG is.... Does anyone have experience or an opinion to offer using this functionality? It seems that I will have to code in a user exit or BAdi to insure that the SAP-MDM item numbers are returned to the appropriate text field on my POu2019s. Or can this be done using the standard OCI functionality?
I found OSS note 1347656 which references BADI "ME_CATALOG_INTERFACE" but I'm not sure if this right path to go down or if this would be the correct place to code non-conforming OCI mapping requiremetns.
Any insight would be most appreciated.
Thanks. Sincerely,
Rich Wortmann

I would suggest you create a new field for this as you may require thois going forward for reporting as well. Text fields are difficult to report.
Sorry not sure about the BADI to use.

SRM Product / Material creation - Data flow to SAP MDM

Dear SAP friends,
I need your help with 2 issues. Thanks in advance for your collaboration.
Our client needs to create products and make them available to purchase almost immediately.
The scenario we had working for the last 2 years was: product creation in SRM (fields: short description / product category / measure unit), that would then be sent to SAP MDM for data enrichment, through BBP_CCM_TRANSFER_CATALOG (JOB running every 1 minute). This solution worked well for the last 2 years.
Recently, we are having some problems with this job. We noticed that, sometimes SRM doesn´t send the new products to MDM, and we think it´s a report performance problem. The report doesn´t maintain is normal behavior when executed every 1 minute.
SAP advice is to only run this report once a day. That would obviously require having a minimum time frame of 1 day between product creation and its availability (purchase), which isn´t acceptable in this client business model.
Question 1: Did anyone have a client with similar requirement? What was the implemented solution?
Because of report performance problems, we are running it (BBP_CCM_TRANSFER_CATALOG) every 5 minutes. It happens that sometimes, more than one catalog manager creates products in that time frame, and MDIS when importing the products to MDM, creates one unique workflow JOB making it impossible to assign it to both catalog managers for enrichment.
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Thank you very much for your help in advance,
Best Regards,
João S. Carvalho

Hi meka
In product costing values flows as follows;
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Product operations: i.e material BOM and master receipe or routings from PP module.From PP module operation costs comes in product costing.
In CO module: In Tcode KP26 we maintain activity\cost center planning for activities like machine hours, set up hours, labour hours etc.Here we define plan quantity and plan prices.
In Cost Sheet (KZS2) we maintain base cost elements & overheads and While order creation we calculate planned cost of that particular material.and then check the variances after getting actual cost of product.
Hope this will help you and if found useful assign points.
Let me know if you need more information.
Regards
Nilesh.

Help Required -- Can we use SQL Query to READ data from SAP MDM Tables

Hi All,
Please help.........
Can we use SQL Query to READ(No Creation/Updation/Deletion just Read) Data from SAP MDM tables directly, without using MDM Syndicator.
Or direct SQL access to SAP MDM tables is not possible. Only through MDM Syndicator can we export data.
Thanks in Advance
Regards

All the tables you create in Repository comes under A2i_CM_Tables in Database named as your repository name. So the tables names are fields of table A2i_CM_Tables. Now i tried it but cant make it.
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BR,
Alok

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Hi,
I am placed in SAP MDM Project.
Currently, we have an unique requirement.
We, have to join two tables of SAP MDM Console in an unique field
named(House No and PO Code).
Actually, we have a main table named Business Partner and a Flat table
named Address.
Now, we have a field named House No and PO Code(Business Partner) which I have made as unique.
Also, the Field named House No and PO Code(Address) is unique.
Now, my colleague suggested if we can make remote key mapping at the time of import
it will automatically populate the address data for each individual.
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If Remote key is mapped with any field of the Main table.
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When data is syndicated back after modification same data is reflected in that remote system.
Only thing that we can do is that make House No and PO Code (Business Partner) as Lookup(Flat) field and it is mapped with the Flat table Address.
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Please suggest if there is any other way.
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I am closing it.

Error during the installation of ORACLE 10g for SAP MDM 5.5

Hi all,
I am installing ORACLE 10g on a SUSE LES 9 for a future MDM 5.5 system. While I launch the Installer I get the following error:
Preparing to launch Oracle Universal Installer from /tmp/OraInstall2007-09-26_07-11-46AM. Please wait ...oracle@mucsapt2:/home/lrougkal/OraDb10g/database> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: /tmp/OraInstall2007-09-26_07-11-46AM/jre/1.4.2/lib/i386/libawt.so: libXp.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
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I have installed all the required packages from SUSE :
binutils-2.15.90.0.1.1-32.10
gcc-3.3.3-43.41
gcc-c++-3.3.3-43.41
glibc-2.3.3-98.61
gnome-libs-1.4.1.7-671.1
libstdc++-3.3.3-43.41
libstdc++-devel-3.3.3-43.41
make-3.80-184.1
pdksh-5.2.14-780.7
sysstat-5.0.1-35.7
xscreensaver-4.16-2.6
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance,
Loukas

Hi Elmar,
I have checked the packages and the XFree86-libs-4.3.99 is not installed. I guess I will have to install it.
Now your question about oracle user. I am not sure if you have performed any SAP MDM installation with ORACLE RDBMS but the installation guide is totally different than the normal SAP inst guides. Indeed someone needs to install separately SAP MDM and ORACLE and in my installation I do not install NetWeaver since it is not mandatory for the testing phase of the project. You can have a look at the guide (it is very poor -no reference to ORACLE details):
https://websmp105.sap-ag.de/~sapidb/011000358700000271882007E
So the official ORACLE inst gudie says to install the ORACLE software with the oracle user.
Rgds,
Louka

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