Question About Prefix Numbers

[Keohan, Susan - 1140 - MITLL]

Hi Loren,

When you have to set up a new environment (or after an upgrade) this is a
great time to set a new (different) prefix number so that there are no task
collisions.   Plus, unique prefix numbers are a good way of identifying the
age of a specific task/WF  template.

I'd definitely reset your prefix number in Dev to something that is not
already in use.

Cheers,
Sue

 

 

From: sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf Of
Bratzler, Loren
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2014 12:32 PM
To: sap-wug at mit.edu
Subject: Question About Prefix Numbers
Importance: High

 

Our Basis team recently converted our Development environment from client
300 to client 100.

 

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:

 



 

So I launched the activity and I saw that there was an entry for the old 300
client in the table:

 



 

I then edited the entry (deleted and re-created it) for the new client 100:

 



 

 

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:

 



 

 

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?

 

Loren Bratzler

Norfolk Southern Corporation

110 Franklin Road SE

Roanoke, VA  24042-0060

 

Phone: 540-524-3072

Email: loren.bratzler at nscorp.com

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