Hello SCN Members,
In this document, I will be discussing about the Geocoder error that may appear while Transferring Customer Master to GTS.
SAP GeoCoder Basics
The Geo Coding Program is used to determine the latitudes and longitudes of location referred to in Address.
This has application in like determining local times, calculating Distances between two points etc.
SAP provides a Standard GEO Coder Program SAP0.
It can be viewed in transaction code: SZGEOCD_GEOCD2CLS
SPRO path 😆 SAP Netweaver -> General Settings -> Set Geo Coding -> Register GeoCoding Program in System.
For each Country, A Geo Coder program is assigned.
More than one geo-coding program can be assigned to a country.
This Assignment can be seen in tcode: SZGEOCD_GEOCODERS
SPRO path 😆 SAP Netweaver -> General Settings -> Set Geo Coding -> Assign Geocoding Program to Countries.
Each Geo Coding Program decodes the address to a specified level.
For eg: the SAP Standard Geo Coder SAP0 decodes the geographical position upto Region level, ie In a Address, it can determine the latitudes and longitudes for a Region in a given Country.
This is controlled via assignment of Address fields to the Geo Coder Program.
This assignment can be seen in tcode SZGEOCD_GEOCDRLFLD
SPRO path 😆 SAP Netweaver -> General Settings -> Set Geo Coding -> Assign Relevant Address Fields for Geocoding.
As you can see above, For SAP0, Country and Region Fields are assigned as relevant to Geo Coder.
The data in these two fields of any address is used by Geocoder program.
Note : The Implication of this for us is whenever a customer master is transferred to GTS, the country and Region entered in Address have to be present in GTS and have to have their geographical data set in the respective tables.
Sap Supplies the mapping of the Countries -> Geo Cordinates in client 000.
The same can be viewed / maintained in view V_GEOT005 in SM30.
Transaction code for the same: SZGEOCD_GEOT005
SPRO path: SAP Netweaver -> General Settings -> Set Geo Coding -> Process geographical data for Countries.
If you have made any modifications or new entries in this table or in case your GTS client doesnot have all the entries, you can adjust the above view with your ECC client.
In same way, geo coordinates mapping has to be done at region level also.
This is because SAP0 uses two level geocoding that is at country and region level.
The mapping of regions to geocordinates can be seen in Transaction Code : SZGEOCD_GEOT005S
SPRO Path : SAP Netweaver -> General Settings -> Set Geo Coding -> Process geographical data for Countries and Regions
Sm30 View Name V_GEOT005S
GTS Perspective
We are transferring Customer master from Feeder system to GTS.
The Transaction Code for the initial transfer: /SAPSLL/DEBMAS_DIRR3.
Program Name: /SAPSLL/DEBMAS_DISTRIBUTE_R3
In case all customers are not transferred to GTS and the message “Of X selected partner(s), Y were processed” is displayed.
To analyze the reasons for transfer failure, run Log analysis Tcode SLG1 in GTS Client.
As you see on analyzing the logs, the geocoder error message is displayed
Geocoder SAP0: Country specification is incomplete (Customizing)
Message no. :GEOCODING002
To correct this message, you have to maintain the Geo Cordinates of the country and the region in GTS.
As stated above, these data can be maintained in views V_GEOT005 and V_GEOT005s respectively in SM30.
The Transacation codes for the same as stated above are SZGEOCD_GEOT005 and SZGEOCD_GEOT005S respectively.
In case, you are in cutover stage of Implementation or in final preparation and want to ensure that all countries and regions are present in GTS client, you can adjust the views V_GEOT005 and V_GEOT005s with either ECC client or Standard reference client 000.
Note: You can go to Utilites-> Adjust. Select the appropriate RFC connection (to ECC Client or 000 Client). Select the desired entries (R or MR) and click on Adjust button.
Do share your comments/ Suggestions / issues you faced related to this Geo Coder or transfer of Customer masters to GTS.
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