Should modifiable transports be released before the unicode conversion?

We are getting started on the unicode conversion soon in our DEV environment. Should we go ahead and release the open/modifiable transports before the conversion? IS there a reason for that? Since this is unlike an SAP upgrade, can we release them later after the conversion is complete. Any insight?
Thanks.

Hi,
I Suppose its not must , as i have done lot of language import with open transport request.
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/en/a3/30ad5296b511d384bb0060975b04f3/frameset.htm
This one will help
Note 18601 - Frequently asked questions on language transport
Regards,
Edited by: Gagan Deep Kaushal on Nov 2, 2010 8:34 PM

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1. Error:
In case of Translate Error; Dangerous use of Translate in Multilingual system.
Correction:
To correct the Error occurring on TRANSLATE statement use this additional statement before the Translate statement.
SET LOCALE LANGUAGE sy-langu.
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2. Error:
In case of Open Dataset Error; Encoding Addition must be included.
Correction:
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OPEN DATASET dataset_name FOR access IN TEXT MODE ENCODING DEFAULT.
Where: dataset_name NAME OF THE DATASET.
Access INPUT or OUTPUT or APPENDING or UPDATE.
DEFAULT - Corresponds to UTF-8 in UNICODE systems &
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3. Error:
In case of the usage of the Obsolete FM UPLOAD/DOWNLOAD or WS_UPLOAD/DOWNLOAD; Function module UPLOAD is flagged as obsolete.
Correction:
The FM GUI_DOWNLOAD/UPLOAD is used.
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1. Filename It must be of STRING type.
2. Filetype DAT is not used any longer, instead ASC is used.
3. Field Separator The default value SPACE is used, incase for a TAB separated file X can be used.
4. Error:
In case of CURRENCY/UNIT Addition Error; Use addition CURRENCY/UNIT when outputting.
Correction:
The CURRENCY addition specifies the currency-dependant decimal places for the output of the data objects of type i or p. To obtain the currency-key, the field CURRKEY of the table TCURX is used. The system determines the number of the decimal places from the field CURRDEC of the selected CURRKEY.
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WRITE: /3 'TOTAL',' ', TOTAL.
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5. Error:
In case of TYPE X Error; Variable must be of C, N, D, T or STRING type.
Correction:
We need to change all the Type X (Hexadecimal) variables to Type C with their values unchanged.
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CLASS: CL_ABAP_CHAR_UTILITIES DEFINITION LOAD.
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ii) * DATA: CHAR TYPE X VALUE 160.
CLASS: CL_ABAP_CONV_IN_CE DEFINITION LOAD.
DATA CHAR TYPE C.
CHAR = CL_ABAP_CONV_IN_CE=>UCCP(00AO).
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E.g.:
CLASS: CL_ABAP_CONV_IN_CE DEFINITION LOAD.
DATA : LF(2) TYPE X VALUE 'F5CD'.
DATA : BEGIN OF LF,
A1 TYPE C,
A2 TYPE C,
END OF LF.
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LF-A2 = CL_ABAP_CONV_IN_CE=>UCCP('00CD').
6. Error:
In case of the Character -Error; The Character -cant appear in names in Unicode Programs.
Correction:
The Character -(Hyphen) appearing in Variable names is replaced by the character _ (Under Score) for Unicode/Upgrade Compliance.
E.g.:
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*wk-xblnr LIKE bkpf-xblnr,
*wk-date LIKE sy-datum,
*wk-wrbtr LIKE bseg-wrbtr,
*wk-name1 LIKE lfa1-name1,
*wk-voucher(8) TYPE c.
wk_belnr LIKE bkpf-belnr,
wk_xblnr LIKE bkpf-xblnr,
wk_date LIKE sy-datum,
wk_wrbtr LIKE bseg-wrbtr,
wk_name1 LIKE lfa1-name1,
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In case of The SUBMIT-TO-SAP-SPOOL Error; you should not use the statement SUBMIT-TO-SAP-SPOOL without the WITHOUT SPOOL DYNPRO addition.
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EXPORTING
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DESTINATION = P_DEST
IMMEDIATELY = 'X'
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OUT_PARAMETERS = print_parameters
VALID = valid_flag
EXCEPTIONS
INVALID_PRINT_PARAMS = 2
OTHERS = 4
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DATA: print_parameters type pri_params,
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In case of Message Error; Number of WITH fields and number of Place Holders are not same .
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E.g.:
1. * MESSAGE E045.
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p_ptype.
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In case of Move between 2 different Structures; The structures are not mutually convertible in a Unicode program.
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E.g.:
The statement move retainage_text to temp_text. Gives an error, where RETAINAGE_TEXT is an internal table and TEMP_TEXT is a string of length 200.
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TEMP_TEXT+0(1) = RETAINAGE_TEXT-DQ1.
TEMP_TEXT+1(1) = RETAINAGE_TEXT-HEX.
TEMP_TEXT+2(20) = RETAINAGE_TEXT-FILLER1.
TEMP_TEXT+22(15) = RETAINAGE_TEXT-AMT_DUE.
TEMP_TEXT+37(8) = RETAINAGE_TEXT-TEXT.
TEMP_TEXT+45(10) = RETAINAGE_TEXT-DUE_DATE.
TEMP_TEXT+55(1) = RETAINAGE_TEXT-DQ2.
10. Error:
In case of no description found; add a GUI title.
Correction:
In this type of error gui title is generally missing so add a GUI title to the module pool.
11. Error:
In case of writing internal or transparent table
Correction:
Write individual fields.
E.g.:
WRITE: / EXT. --> EXT should be a character type field
WRITE: / EXT-ZZSTATE, EXT-LINE_NO, EXT-LINE_TXT, EXT-AMT, EXT-ZZSKUQTY.
12. Error:
In case of combination reference table/field S541-UMMENGE does not exist
Correction:
Was due to error in reference table S541. TABLE S541 has errors
1)Foreign key S541- ZZMARKET (ZZMARKET AND KATR2 point to different domains)
2)Foreign key S541-ZZACQUIGRP (ZZACQUIGRP AND KATR8 point to different domains)
Changed the domain of ZZMARKET (from ZMKCODE to ATTR2)
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In case of KEY does not exist
Correction:
The reference table for field KBETR was KNOV earlier changed it to RV61A as KNOV was in turn referring to RV61A.
14. Error:
Incase of WRITE statement, Literals that take more than one line is not permitted in Unicode systems.
Correction: To correct this error, we need to align the spaces accordingly so that the statement doesnt go beyond the line.
15. Error:
Incase of Data statement, The data type ZWFHTML can be enhanced in any way. After a structure enhancement, this assignment or parameter might be syntactically incorrect..
Correction: To correct this error, instead of like in the Data statement, use type.
16. Error:
Incase of DESCRIBE statement, DESCRIBE can be used only with IN BYTE... Or IN CHARACTER mode in Unicode systems.
Correction: To correct this error, use additional text, IN BYTE MODE / IN CHARACTER MODE along with this statement.
CHARACTER MODE is added when the data object is of flat/ character type.
BYTE MODE is added when the data object is a deep structure.
Syntax: DESCRIBE FIELD data_obj : LENGTH blen IN BYTE MODE,
LENGTH clen IN CHARACTER MODE.
Where blen and clen must be of type I.
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Incase of DO-LOOP Error, In Do loop range addition needed
Correction:
An internal tables is declared and the two fields (VARYING field and NEXT field) were
Included inside the internal table
E.g.: In program SAPMZP02
DO 11 TIMES
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CASE SYST-INDEX.
WHEN 1
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WHEN 2
STATION_STATE = STATION2.
WHEN 3
STATION_STATE = STATION3.
WHEN 4
STATION_STATE = STATION4.
WHEN 5
STATION_STATE = STATION5.
WHEN 6
STATION_STATE = STATION6.
WHEN 7
STATION_STATE = STATION7.
WHEN 8
STATION_STATE = STATION8.
WHEN 9
STATION_STATE = STATION9.
WHEN 10
STATION_STATE = STATION10.
WHEN 11
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18. Error:
Incase of the parameter QUEUE-ID Error, QUEUE-ID is neither a parameter nor a select option in program rsbdcbtc.
Correction:
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Incase of EPC Error, Field symbol <TOT_FLD> is not assigned to a field .
Correction:
This error couldn't be rectified as the error occurs in a Standard SAP include- LSVIMF29.
The OS Note - 1036943 needs to be applied.
Error:
OPEN DATASET P_FILE FOR OUTPUT IN TEXT MODE.
Correct:
OPEN DATASET P_FILE FOR OUTPUT IN TEXT MODE ENCODING DEFAULT.
Error:
Constants : c_tab type x value '09' .
Correct:
Constants : c_tab type abap_char1 value cl_abap_char_utilities=>horizontal_tab .
Error:
Data : begin of output_options occurs 0 . Include structure ssfcompop.
Data : end of output_options .
Correct:
Data : output_options type standard table of ssfcompop with header line .
Error:
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Issue:
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Also Check this link.
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conversion. What we would like to do is convert the system to ECC 6.0
with Unicode and then apply the transports which set the "Unicode
Checks Active" flag. Since some of these transports contain new
objects, we would prefer to upgrade to ECC 6.0, then convert to unicode
first and apply the transports afterwards, to reduce the risk of potentially needing to rerun
scans.
Ideally we would have cleared all this before the upgrade, but we only
found this issue in our test system after we had upgraded it.
Is this a bad plan?

Hi Chris,
it is not necessary to set the Unicode flag for programming objects in order to succeed with the technical Unicode conversion.
However please keep in mind that the programs without flag will not work in the Unicode environment (as you already stated).
Best regards,
Nils Buerckel
SAP AG

Single Code Page Unicode conversion when source and target are the same

Hi everyone. We have recently upgraded our non-unicode 4.7 to ECC6 non-unicode. Now we have begun researching the next step to convert to Unicode. I know we could have done the Combined Upgrade and Unicode Conversion but I wanted to do thorough testing after the upgrade to eliminate too many variables if problems arose.
So, my question is...has anyone done the Unicode conversion when source and target servers are the same? Most documentation I've seen recommends a system copy to another box first. I did find one forum thread that gave a high level approach to doing the conversion with just one server and listed this:
Step 1:- Run Tcode SPUMG to scan
Step 2:- Export Database
Step 3:- Drop Database
Step 4:- Create New Database
Step 5:- Import database
Step 6:- Chnage unicode Kernel
What are your thoughts? Is it supported? Am I wasting my time and should I just bite the bullet and buy yet another system? Thanks in advance.
-Anthony

Theoretically that's possible, yes. However...
> Step 5:- Import database
> Step 6:- Chnage unicode Kernel
the import must be done using the Unicode kernel.
So basically you can
- export the old systm
- uninstall system + database
- start as if you were installing "from scratch" on a new box
Markus

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