28958 - Link to follow-on documents is lost - BDLS

Symptom

In Materials Management (MM) or Sales and Distribution (SD), follow-on documents are no longer displayed in accounting (AC). (Goto -> AC Documents)
In Financial Accounting (FI) (or other AC applications), original documents are no longer displayed.  (Goto -> Original Document)
When you reverse an old FI document, the update termination B1 004 occurs: "A separate logical system is not defined for client 997".
During the reversal in SD, the system issues error message F5 203: "The document required does not exist".

Other Terms

F5203, MBST, MB03, VF03, FB03, RW020, VF062, M7082, FB08, VF02, VF11
F5A009

Reason and Prerequisites

In the table T000 (that is, in the assignment of the client to the logical system), the logical system was changed from a value other than initial to a different value (field T000-LOGSYS). According to the F1 help, this is not allowed (see transaction SCC4, F1 help for the "Logical System" field).
For documents that were posted before this change, it is no longer possible to navigate to the original document or to the AC documents because all document headers have the original logical system that is current at the time of the posting. This means that a reversal is no longer possible.

As of 4.5A, the logical system is transferred to the document header BKPF only if the sender document or sender procedure was created in a logical system that is different from the separate logical system (T000-LOGSYS). If the FI document is entered in a separate logical system, the entry in BKPF-AWSYS remains empty.

Solution

The logical systems (field AWSYS/LOGSYS) in the document headers of all applications involved have to be converted; in addition to the document header of the financial accounting document (table BKPF), all AC applications (such as cost accounting, classic Profit Center Accounting, profitability analysis, Special Purpose Ledgers, Funds Management, and so on) are affected. If you use new General Ledger Accounting (Release 5.00 and higher), you must also note that the logical system is updated in the totals table; this means that you must also make a relevant adjustment here.

A standard solution is not available; an advanced analysis of the affected system has to be made in each individual case and a tailored solution has to be provided.

Since a data inconsistency of this type is only possible if the assignment in the client table T000 is subsequently changed, a correction can be made in the context of fee-based consulting only.