Unicode Conversion: Troubleshooting

July 24, 2009 at 8:24 am

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Symptom
Problems or errors occur during conversion from non-Unicode SAP System
to Unicode. This SAP Note applies for Single Code Page and MDMP system
conversion.
Other terms
MDMP, Single Code Page, database export, database conversion, database
import, R3load, SPUMG, SUMG, preconversion, postconversion
Reason and Prerequisites
You encounter problems or errors during system conversion.
Solution
Attached to this SAP Note you will find a Troubleshooting Guide, [...]

Additional tools for MDMP –> Unicode conversion preparation

July 12, 2009 at 2:03 am

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Symptom
You are conduction the preparation steps for a MDMP –> Unicode conversion in release SAP_BASIS 6.20 or newer.
You are performing the preparation steps for a MDMP –> Unicode conversion using the CU&UC approach with SPUM4 in SAP_BASIS 46C.
Other terms
SPUMG, SPUM4, reprocess, Vocabulary, UM4_DISTRIBUTE_ASSIGNED_LANGS, UMG_DISTRIBUTE_ASSIGNED_LANGS, UM4_GET_FLDID, UMG_GET_FKDID, UM4_REPLOG_STAT, UMG_REPLOG_STAT, UM4_REPROCESS_ASSIGN_SHORT, UMG_REPROCESS_ASSIGN_SHORT, UM4_REPROCESS_HINTS, UMG_REPROCESS_HINTS
Reason [...]

Deprecation of Java features with non-Unicode Backend

July 12, 2009 at 1:59 am

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Symptom
You want to know why communication between Java components and SAP server backend systems are only supported if the backend system is a Unicode system despite note 794411 describes how code page conversion with JCo works in case of a non-Unicode backend.
Other terms
MDMP, Single Code Page, JCo, JRFC, code page conversion
Reason and Prerequisites
Technically, [...]

Problems within non-Unicode system landscapes

July 12, 2009 at 1:58 am

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Symptom
Problems without Unicode
Other terms
Unicode, MDMP, Single code page
Reason and Prerequisites
Non-Unicode code pages support only a small portion of the world-wide existing character sets. Any character conversion based on these code pages therefore bears the risk of silent data loss.
Solution
New releases of SAP NetWeaver and SAP applications based on SAP
NetWeaver, released in 2007 or later,will [...]

Problems within non-Unicode system landscapes

June 30, 2009 at 9:18 am

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Symptom
Problems without Unicode
Other terms
Unicode, MDMP, Single code page
Reason and Prerequisites
Non-Unicode code pages support only a small portion of the world-wide existing character sets. Any character conversion based on these code pages therefore bears the risk of silent data loss.
Solution
New releases of SAP NetWeaver and SAP applications based on SAP
NetWeaver, released in 2007 or later,will [...]