Description
Customers and vendors in FI can be linked to or among one another. Thislink is created using different fields in master records such as thefiscal address, alternative payer or dunning recipient. These links canbe general (in the A segment) or per company code (in the B segment).
Up to Release 2.2, information on how customers and vendors are linkedused to be stored in master records. Starting with Release 3.0,however, this information is stored in a special table, KLPA. Thisprogram reconstructs KLPA based on customer and vendor master data. Touse the new linking functionality, you need to run this program formaster records created prior to 3.0. As of 3.0, master records areupdated individually in maintenance transactions.

Precondition
You can execute the program as a test run without having the databasechanged. Once you are ready to start the program as a production run,execute it in background processing.
No users can be maintaining master records for the account type youselect when starting the program. If these master records are beingmaintained, the system will issue an error message informing you thatnot every vendor or customer can be blocked.
No vendor or customer master records can be changed while the programis running since the system sets a generic block.

Output
Statistics are output and, if selected, a detail list. The lattershould not be selected in the case of very large datasets (more than10,000 linked customers or vendors).

Note
Important: This program must be started if the linking information isto be taken into consideration when archiving the master records of thecustomer and vendor accounts for old master records.