Title
Transfer Report for Industries (BUPXPRA12)

Purpose
In Release 5.0 (CRM 2.0C based on 4.6D) SAP Business Partner offers youthe option of maintaining industries for multiple industry numbersystems. This information is stored in the new table BUT0IS, andmaintenance is conducted by means of a table control. You can thusmaintain multiple industries for different industry number systems,whereby you can have defaults for an industry number system as well asfor one industry per system. The option available to date in which youmaintained one single industry in the business partner (fieldBUT000-IND_SECTOR) is now superfluous. This field is no longer visible,and cannot be maintained.
You can use BUPXPRA12 to transfer the field contents of these oldindustry fields to the new table. The system not only generates entriesto the master data table BUT0IS, but also the corresponding entries tothe check tables, meaning that the texts for the old industries arealso copied.
You do not need to make any changes in Customizing, because field group049 for industries has been retained.
The industry number system generated for the old entries can be viewedunder the name "Industry system, old (BUT000)".
For performance reasons the report does not run during the upgrade, andmust be started manually. For this reason, you must ensure that duringthe run no changes are made to the control tables affected (TB038,TB038A, TB038B, TB038T), as otherwise inconsistencies may occur. Thebusiness partners themselves are all locked, meaning that before youcan start the run, you must unlock all partners.
With large quantities of data you can expect a long runtime, as thesystem has to read the complete partner inventory.

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