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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Sheldon,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thanks for the quick reply.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>So should I also restore the entry back for the old “900” prefix that points to our old client ED3-300 ?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:blue'>Loren </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:gray'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:gray'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> sap-wug-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:sap-wug-bounces@mit.edu] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Sheldon Oxenberg<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, January 17, 2014 12:53 PM<br><b>To:</b> SAP Workflow Users' Group<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: Question About Prefix Numbers<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Hi Loren,</span><br><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Yes, you are creating yourself a big problem here by configuring the same Prefix number 900.</span><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>You should always configure a new unused (never before used) Prefix number when you create a new Development System and/or Client.</span><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>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.</span><br><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>For example, you could configure your Prefix number for your new Client as follows:</span><br><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Prefix no. = 901</span><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>SAP System = ED3</span><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Client = 100</span><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br><br>Regards.<br><br>SHELDON OXENBERG<br>Professional, Solution Management<br>Technical Architect/SAP Business Workflow<br>CSC<br></span><br><br><img width=16 height=16 id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:image001.gif@01CF1384.E9678480" alt="Inactive hide details for "Bratzler, Loren" ---01/17/2014 12:35:47 PM---Our Basis team recently converted our Development envir"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#424282'>"Bratzler, Loren" ---01/17/2014 12:35:47 PM---Our Basis team recently converted our Development environment from client 300 to client 100. Today,</span><br><br><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5F5F5F'>From: </span><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>"Bratzler, Loren" <<a href="mailto:loren.bratzler@nscorp.com">loren.bratzler@nscorp.com</a>></span><br><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5F5F5F'>To: </span><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>"<a href="mailto:sap-wug@mit.edu">sap-wug@mit.edu</a>" <<a href="mailto:sap-wug@mit.edu">sap-wug@mit.edu</a>></span><br><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5F5F5F'>Date: </span><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>01/17/2014 12:35 PM</span><br><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5F5F5F'>Subject: </span><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Question About Prefix Numbers</span><br><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5F5F5F'>Sent by: </span><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="mailto:sap-wug-bounces@mit.edu">sap-wug-bounces@mit.edu</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><div class=MsoNormal><hr size=2 width="100%" noshade style='color:#8091A5' align=left></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br><br><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Our Basis team recently converted our Development environment from client 300 to client 100.</span><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>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:</span><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><br><img border=0 width=333 height=163 id="_x0000_i1027" src="cid:image002.png@01CF1384.E9678480"><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>So I launched the activity and I saw that there was an entry for the old 300 client in the table:</span><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><br><img border=0 width=624 height=391 id="_x0000_i1028" src="cid:image003.jpg@01CF1384.E9678480"><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I then edited the entry (deleted and re-created it) for the new client 100:</span><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><br><img border=0 width=635 height=371 id="_x0000_i1029" src="cid:image004.png@01CF1384.E9678480"><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>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:</span><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><br><img border=0 width=520 height=153 id="_x0000_i1030" src="cid:image005.png@01CF1384.E9678480"><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>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?</span><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:blue'>Loren Bratzler</span><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:gray'>Norfolk Southern Corporation</span><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:gray'>110 Franklin Road SE</span><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:gray'>Roanoke, VA 24042-0060</span><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:gray'> </span><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:gray'>Phone: 540-524-3072</span><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:gray'>Email: </span><a href="mailto:loren.bratzler@nscorp.com"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>loren.bratzler@nscorp.com</span></a><tt><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>_______________________________________________</span></tt><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><br><tt>SAP-WUG mailing list</tt><br><tt><a href="mailto:SAP-WUG@mit.edu">SAP-WUG@mit.edu</a></tt><br><tt><a href="http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/sap-wug">http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/sap-wug</a></tt></span><o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>