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<p><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Loren,</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">The entry is client specific.</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">If you are in client 100, then the prefix configuration only needs to have the Client 100 entry: </font><font size="2" face="Arial">Prefix no. = 901 / SAP System = ED3 / Client = 100.</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="Arial">If you no longer have a client 300, then you do not need to restore the old prefix configuration "900" that points to ED3-300, but you should 'retire' prefix no. 900, and make a note that prefix no. 900 should never be used again in the prefix configuration in your SAP Landscape.</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="Arial">If you do still have a client 300, then when you are in client 300, the </font><font size="2" face="sans-serif">prefix configuration should remain: </font><font size="2" face="Arial">Prefix no. = 900 / SAP System = ED3 / Client = 300.</font><br>
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<font size="1" color="#5F5F5F" face="sans-serif">From: </font><font size="1" face="sans-serif">"Bratzler, Loren" <loren.bratzler@nscorp.com></font><br>
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<font size="2" color="#1F497D" face="Calibri">Sheldon,</font><br>
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<font size="2" color="#1F497D" face="Calibri">Thanks for the quick reply.</font><br>
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<font size="2" color="#1F497D" face="Calibri">So should I also restore the entry back for the old “900” prefix that points to our old client ED3-300 ?</font><br>
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<p><font size="2" face="Arial">Hi Loren,</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><br>
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Yes, you are creating yourself a big problem here by configuring the same Prefix number 900.<br>
You should always configure a new unused (never before used) Prefix number when you create a new Development System and/or Client.<br>
You should maintain a list of used Prefix numbers in your SAP Landscape, and never reuse a Prefix number, even if you remove a System/Client.</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><br>
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For example, you could configure your Prefix number for your new Client as follows:</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><br>
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Prefix no. = 901<br>
SAP System = ED3<br>
Client = 100<br>
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SHELDON OXENBERG<br>
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Our Basis team recently converted our Development environment from client 300 to client 100.<br>
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Today, for the first time since this change was made, I needed to create a new standard task. So I defined the task and when I went to save it, I got an error message telling me the prefixes had not been defined in the client I was working in. So I went out to SWU3 and sure enough, the “Maintain Prefix Numbers” under definition environment had a red X:<br>
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So I launched the activity and I saw that there was an entry for the old 300 client in the table:<br>
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I then edited the entry (deleted and re-created it) for the new client 100:<br>
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I then went back to my new standard task and when I clicked “save”, it assigned a task number successfully. The problem is, I was expecting to get a task number up in the 400 range based on the last time I had to create a new task. But the task number that got created was 90000015:<br>
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I checked our QA and production systems and we do not already have a standard task 90000015 so I don’t think this newly generated task number is going to cause a problem. However, I am concerned about what is going to happen when I create my next task. Will it assign 90000016? We do already have a task with that number. Is the system going to be smart enough to find the next available number that has not already been used? Or have I created myself a big problem here by changing that prefix entry?<br>
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Norfolk Southern Corporation<br>
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