LSMW for Functional Consultants in Simple Step-By-step Way

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LSMW for Functional

Consultants in simple step-by-step

waycreated byRavi Sankar Vennaon Sep 10, 2013 10:40 AM, last modified byRavi Sankar Vennaon Sep10, 2013 1:53 PM

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Legacy System Migration Workbench (LSMW) is handy tool for data uploads. In most of the big projects there is a

separate development / data migration team is available. However, at times, it would be responsibility of the functionalconsultant to load the data such as vendor master, customer master and asset master etc. It would be real handy for afunctional consultant to know LSMW (at least recording method) and it would help them to successfully complete the

task. Hope this document would help many of our functional consultants, as I am seeing number of questions aroundLSMW. The simple rule is: Follow this document and practice is for number of times possible, then you will becomemaster.

Go to Transaction Code "LSMW" and follow the following steps:

Give some Unique name for Project, Subproject and Object. Click Create (Shift+F1). Now execute or press

CTRL+F8.

Give the description for Project, Sub Project and Object and say OK. Now execute or press CTRL+F8.
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Select Maintain Object Attributes and Execute (CTRL+F8)
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Click Display / Change (it will make you to change). Select the Radio Button Batch Input Recording. Now

click on Goto

Recordings Overview. Click on Create Recording (Ctrl+F1).

Click OK

Give Required Transaction Code (In this case it is FK01)

Create Vendor or Make changes for Entering Withholding tax details in the Vendor.
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Press Enter

C


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Press Enter

Click on Save Button.

Recording is saved now. Click on DefaultAllButton.


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Click

Ctrl+Y, a + will come. With this, you can drag and copy whatever you want. In case if any field is

appearing twice you

need to change the field name by double clicking on that. Otherwise, your uploading will get failed.

Copy

the fileds to an excel file.

Remove the Blank Rows.


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Now the field name and descriptions are in one Column. I.e., A.You need to

segregate that. To do that, select Column Aand Select in Excel DataText

to Column as shown in the following graph.

Now Select the fixed with and say Next.


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Select Fixed Width and click next.

Keep columns wherever you want by clicking.

Now say Next and then again say Finish.Now all fields and texts are divided into two Columns.


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Now copy the fields and texts as shown in the Sheet1 (Ctrl+C)

Go

to Sheet2

Keep

the cursor in the Sheet 2 (A1) and then

Edit,

Paste

Special

Check

in Transpose as shown below and say OK.


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Now all your rows will become your columns as shown in the blow Screen.

Now

fill the required details exactly as shown below. You should note that you have

to enter 0001for payment method instead of 0001, since if you straight enter

0001 it will become 1, therefore you must ensure whenever it is starting with

0should be preceded with .


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Now

select the whole sheet2.

Remove

all grids.

No colors should be there in the sheet.

No letter should be typed in different colors. All are in normal color only.

Keep the columns to LEFTMargin.

Now,

Format

=> Cells => Number => General as shown in the following screenshot.

Now say OK.

Now copy the whole Sheet2 and paste it in the Sheet3. Thendelete the header rows as shown below:
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Save

this file to your Hard Disk with a simple name. In this case I saved as Vendor.

Nowgo to SAVEASin Excel, and

Save

as Text (Tab Delimited) as shown in the above screen shot.

Click on OK button as shown below.


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Click on "YES" button as shown below.

Now, Click on "NO" button as shown below.

Press F3 or Click on Back Button.


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Now, Click on "YES" to save.

You will reach the below screen.

Again, press F3 or click on back Button.


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Click

F4 in the Recording Button, your structure will be populated. In this case it

is VENDRECO.

Now click on Save on Ctrl+S to save your recording.

After saving your recording click Back button or press Ctrl+F3 to go back.

Now you will observe that few steps have been disappeared. Only few steps are left

out. This is because of the recording mode that you have been selected. Ideally

there should not be any Idoc related steps should be visible.

Now Step1 is being completed and the system automatically takes you to second step.

Now press CTRL+F8 or Executed.


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Click on Display / Change Button or press Ctrl+F1

Now create a Structure by clicking CreateStructureor Ctrl+F4.

Give Source Structure Name and Description

Your Source Structure Name and Description is shown. Click on Save button
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Now Press F3 or Click back button to go back.

Now the second step is completed and system automatically takes you to third step.

Click CTRL+F8 or Press Execute Button, which will take to maintain source fields.

Click on Display / change as shown above OR press Ctrl+F1.

Now press on Table Maintenance as shown above by keeping your cursor on the Source

Structure (in blue color in the above screen shot).
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Copy those Fields from Sheet1 and copy it here. (from your excel file)

In case if your fields are came twice in recording, none of the field should be

similar. As already advised that change the field names to different field

names. Whatever, field names that you have changed in the structure should also

appear here. Meaning that in case these fields does not map with your changed

fields in your Structure, uploading will fail.

Enter the Field Type as CCharacteristic and Length as 60. If you know the length

enter the exact length. If you do not enter the maximum length 60. You should

not enter the length less than the actual length of the field.

Say Save.


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Press "Enter". Save the results and Press

F3 or Click on back button to go back.

Now Click Save in this screen and again press F3 to go back.

Now system will automatically takes you to fourth screen.


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Click CTRL+F8 or Click on Execute Button.

Select the Structure and click on Display / change button or press Ctrl+F1

Click on Relationship (Ctrl+F4)

Though

it is customary step, you should go to this step. And say OK for the message

that the system has issued. Asource structure is already assigned to target

structure VENDRECO.


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Go select the auto filed mapping as showing above in the above screen shot.

Say OKwith this 50 number screen. Do not make any changes.


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Keep onPressing AcceptProposalfor all the proposal as shown above.

Your entire field mapping should appear as above. Each field should have four rows as above.

Once it is being completed the system issues a statement that AutoField Mapping is completed


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Click Save (Ctrl+S) and go back (F3).


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Nothing to do with MaintainField Values, Transactions, User Defined Routines

Now Go to SpecifyFilesScreen Manually and press Ctrl+F8or Execute Button.

Select the first row and click on Display / change Button.


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Now Click on Add Entry Ctrl+F2as shown above.

Select the TEXT(Tab Delimited)file that you have already created and say Open.


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Your file has come and Enter some relevant Name

Select TabulatorRadio Button and say OK.

Now Save (Ctrl+S) and press F3 or Back Button to go back.


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Now the system will take you to next step i.e., AssignFiles.Press Ctrl+F8 or

press Execute Button.

Select Source Structure (as shown in blue colour above) and press Display / Change

Button (Ctrl+F1).


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Click on Assignment (Ctrl+F2)

Though it is a customary step, you need to visit this step compulsory. The system will

issue a message stating that Afile has already been assigned to source

structure VENDOR_RECORDING.Say Ok.

Click on Save (Ctrl+S) and Press F3 or click on back button.

The system will take you to next step i.e., ReadData.Click on Execute or Press Ctrl+F8.


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Remove the Checks for

Value

Fields -> 1234.56

Date

Value -> YYYYMMDD as shown above. There should not be any check in the above

two check boxes.

Now

Click on Execute (F8)

The system will tell that total 8 records are being read.


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Now Click on Back Button or press F3 TWICE, which will take you to initial screen.

Now the system takes you to next step DisplayRead Data

Click on Execute or Press Ctrl+F8.

Here you give the number of lines in your text file and say OK.


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Click on Any one row and see whether the fields in SAP and columns in your Text File

are matching.

Once you are satisfied that everything is matching and going fine, press F3 or Click

on Back button TWICE, which will take you to initial screen.


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Now you are automatically in ConvertDataScreen.

PressCtrl+F8 or Click on Execute Button.

Just press F8 or Execute Button.


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The following screen will appear. See the screen and press Back Button (F3) twice,

which will take you to initial screen.

Now the system will automatically takes you to DisplayConverted Data.

Press Ctrl+F8 or Click on Execute Button.


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Enter the number of lines From 1 to 8 in this case, to see how it is showing in

Converted Data and Say Ok. (Click on Rite Tick).

Click on any one of the converted data line and see how the data is going.


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If you are satisfied that everything is going fine, then Click on Go back button

(F3) TWICE, which will take you to initial screen.

You will be automatically taken to CreateBatch Input Session.

Click Ctrl+F8 or press ExecuteButton.


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Select "Keep Batch input Folder(s)?

Just Click on Execute Button (F8).

One Batch input session will be created. The system will state that 1 batch input

folder with 8 transactions createdwill be issued. Say OK. (Click Right),

which will take you to initial screen.


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Click Ctrl+F8 or Press on Execute Button.

Now you are in SM35 Screen. Select the line that is being created to upload and

press Execute (F8) button as shown above.


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Select BackgroundRadio Button.

Check in:

Extended log

Expert Mode

Dynpro Standard Size

As shown above and the click on Processbutton.


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See the log and click on Line, if there are any problems in your log.

Click on back button (F3) to come out of the session FOUR TIME, which will take you

to Easy Access Screen.

Go to Report

S_ALR_87012086

Now You are Viewing the vendor records that you are uploaded. You can also follow

the same steps for Change also.


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Please let me know if you have any doubts.

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