Title
Conversion to general status management: Orders

Purpose
Functions were added to the general status management for Release 4.0,which could previously only be used in order status management. Now youare able do the following:
,,- Define a status-dependent field selection
,,- Assign status-dependent authorizations
,,- Make selections by status number
This means that order status management is no longer necessary, andthis will no longer be supported in future releases. Therefore, SAPrecommends that you no longer use order status management.
The RKOSTAT2 program enables you to automatically convert orders fromorder status management to the general status management.

Selection
Selection is made using the order number, where only orders withcategory 01 (CO internal order), 02 (CO accrual order) and 03 (modelorder) are selected.

Output
Once the program has run, the list screen displayed contains the errormessages and the number of selected and converted orders.

Activities
The RKOSTAT2 program is used for order conversion, and is, for example,started in productive systems. It only converts orders where the orderstatus management is activated and general status management isactivated in the order type (either manually by the user or by theRKOSTAT1 program). The system sets the user status that corresponds tothe active order status. The maintenance language for the costing sheetis important for this. The conversion does not affect the active systemstatuses. Since the general status management was extended for Release4.0, the system now writes status change documents for the convertedorders.
Conversion does not affect the business functions for the orders(allowed and disallowed business transactions). The system onlyexcludes the disallowed transaction group during transaction controlfor the converted order, when an order with a disallowed transactiongroup (and which does not have a user status with the same name in thestatus profile) is converted. The initial screen has a "Lock orders"indicator for cases such as this. If the indicator is set, the systemlocks the orders that have disallowed transaction groups (and do nothave a user status with the same name in the status structure). Thismeans that the system assigns the SPER status to these orders to ensurethat postings cannot take place by accident. If the disallowedtransaction groups are to be included in conversion, then you need toincrease the corresponding user statuses that do not have a statusnumber after the system has generated the status profiles. These arethe statuses for which all business transactions in the disallowedtransaction group are forbidden (in the user status allletters are capitalized). If you are not using disallowedtransaction groups, then you can ignore the indicator.