Submit Code not working in Background processing

Question

Hi All,
I have a requirement to create delieveries based on the Sales Order through transaction VL04 (RV50SBT1).  Essentially, the program takes selected sales orders, determines the shipping point and creates deliveries immediately.  I believe that the code below is correct as it works when my program is run in the foreground; however, when I run my program in background, SM37 gives an error "Fill in all required entry fields."  The only mandatory field in VL04 is the Shipping Point (VSTEL) which is being successfully populated. 
  SUBMIT rv50sbt1  AND RETURN
                  WITH vstel = ls_vbap-vstel
                  WITH s_ledat BETWEEN '20091231' AND '99991231'
                  WITH samml = 'X'
                  WITH anzei = ' '.
Similar code to this is working in other custom developments that I have done; however, those programs only submit to programs without mandatory fields.  Am I doing something wrong?  Is it not possible to use the Submit command if a field is mandatory in the program you are submitting to?  Any help you can give would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks.
John

Answer 1

Hi Guys,
Yes, I am certain VSTEL is populated.  I created a very simple program to ensure that the values would be there and it still didn't work in background.  In this case, I pass one sales order that I know has a shipping point (in my case the VSTEL is populated with US01) via a parameter.  In debugging, I found that the value is correctly passed. 
Here is the test program I created.
data: ls_vbap type vbap.
PARAMETERS: pa_vbeln TYPE vbeln.
  SELECT SINGLE * INTO ls_vbap FROM vbap
    WHERE vbeln = pa_vbeln.
  SUBMIT rv50sbt1  AND RETURN
                  WITH vstel = ls_vbap-vstel
                  WITH s_ledat BETWEEN '20091231' AND '99991231'
                  WITH samml = 'X'
                  WITH anzei = ' '.
John