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How to Restore SAP Number Range Object?

By Chinmaya Das - July 1, 2017

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SAP Number Range Object and Maintenance

Context: God forbidden, if there is a Production outage due to Database corruption, and
your DB Admin team is not able to restore the system fully then a good amount of data
would be lost. You may need to prevent the system from generating duplicate
Orders/Deliveries/Invoices etc.

In such situations (like outage in production/inconsistency in a system due to DB

corruption etc.) you may not be able to recover data till the time the system went down or
inconsistency was found and you want to restore the number range objects in the
system to avoid duplicate numbers being generated and sent to customers or to
downstream systems.

Check the number range object definition in transaction SNRO/SNUM.

Navigate to Customizing and check the Buffering option.

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Also Read: Very different external debugging command /next user = username

Depending on the possible values of the buffer field (P/X/S/BLANK); we will have following
cases.

Case 1: If the buffering option is ‘P’ (Local Buffer)

Run the SAP standard ‘NK_REORGANIZE’ in ‘Test’ mode first and if things look good
then run it in ‘Production’ mode.

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To run this report fill the mandatory field ‘Object’ as the number range object. If needed we
can use Sub-object, Interval, To Year and Instance (Application server instances) to limit
the updates. To re-organize the whole number range object itself; we can only run with the
name of the number range object. Upon execution, the program will DELETE the entries
from table ‘NRIV_LOKAL’ and few entries from this table will be restored in table
‘NRIV_RESTE’ for reference.

Case 2: If the buffering option is ‘S’ (Parallel Buffering)

Run the SAP standard ‘NK_REORGANIZE’ in ‘Test’ mode first and if things look good
then run it in ‘Production’ mode.

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To run this report follow the same approach as described in point # 1 above. Upon
execution, the program will DELETE the entries from table ‘NRIVSHADOW’ and few entries
from this table will be restored in table ‘NRIV_DOCU’ for non-assigned internal numbers.

Case 3: If the buffering option is ‘X’ (Main Memory Buffering)

We need to run transaction SM56 to clear the buffer.

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To view the existing number range buffer for such number range objects where Main
Memory Buffering (‘X’) is selected follow the following navigation in t-code SM56.

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If needed change the ‘NRLEVEL’ of the number range objects which are impacted in
SNRO, manually. If a mass change is required, a custom program can be written to
advance the number ‘NRLEVEL’ to the desired by calling FM ‘NUMBER_GET_NEXT’.

Also Read: Back door entry into SAP Tables

Recommendations: In many production systems we are still using old customizing

configuration i.e. ‘P’ – Local Buffering for few number range objects. In this scenario,

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SAP is updating all buffered entries in table NRIV_LOKAL – Local NRIV for multiprocessor
machines (This tables entries are dependent on SAP Application Instance and Dialog
process). SAP is no more supporting Local Buffering.

SAP is recommending to use ‘S’ – Parallel Buffering. So when ‘S’ – Parallel Buffering, is
activated, entries are stored in the table NRIVSHADOW – Local NRIV for multiprocessor
machines.

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Chinmaya Das
https://sapyard.com/

Qualification: M.Tech from IIT Kharagpur, India. SAP ABAP Experience since 2006. Find more about him on
LinkedIn.

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