During the course of on-line transaction processing, there are times when the system is updating tables in the background even though you have completed your transaction. From everything you see, it appears as though the transaction has been successfully processed. This is probably what was happening when the hard shutdown occurred which resulted in these background updates failing.? (By the way, this can happen at other times as well).
Transaction SM13 lists all of the failed updates that have occurred in the system for a given timeframe. Your failed updates most likely were listed there when the system was brought back on-line and should have been processed at that time which would have prevented your current issue. Most likely someone initiated the failed update at some later point.
Your organization should have a policy in place to review SM13 for failed updates periodically (daily is best) to prevent any future occurrences of this. Again, there can be failed updates even if a hard shutdown does not occur.
This transaction should be reviewed regardless to make sure there aren't any background updates failing. You have the opportunity to process the failed updates while in the transaction and preventing what occurred to you. Most likely someone ran these failed updates after the fact which is what caused your new issue.
--- On Tue, 10/5/10, needmoretime4 via sap-acct <sap-acct@Groups.ITtoolbox.com> wrote:
From: needmoretime4 via sap-acct <sap-acct@Groups.ITtoolbox.com>
Subject: [sap-acct] SAP - Inovice posted with entry date, however CO, PCA documents got different entry date
To: "Anna Bosak" email@removed
Date: Tuesday, October 5, 2010, 3:40 PM
Posted by needmoretime4
on Oct 5 at 3:39 PM
Hi,
We had an issue where our system was shut down with a hard shutdown by accident. Well during that time, we were processing an invoice and it posted, but it only posted the FI document. Now it stated there was a CO document, PCA document, however the entry date on the FI document is in one month(july), and then the CO and PCA documents show an entry date of two months later. The document wasn't picked up in 1kek for two months(july, August), and now that the document states an entry date of this month, if i run 1kek now for the original month(July), it now shows up in the values. Anyone know if the documents (CO/PCA) were sitting out there in limbo, why all of a sudden would it now get entered into the system, what process or where can i look to see why all of a sudden it was entered by the system.
Thanks
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