MERKMABS SAP (Sales plan, characteristics planning) Structure details
Description: Sales plan, characteristics planning
Structure field list including key, data, relationships and ABAP select examples
MERKMABS is a standard SAP Structure so does not store data like a database table does. It can be used to define the fields of other actual tables or to process "Sales plan, characteristics planning" Information within sap ABAP programs.
This is done by declaring abap internal tables, work areas or database tables based on this Structure. These can then be used to store and process the required data appropriately.
i.e. DATA: wa_MERKMABS TYPE MERKMABS.
The MERKMABS table consists of various fields, each holding specific information or linking keys about Sales plan, characteristics planning data available in SAP. These include LNPOS (Combination value key), PERKZ (Period Indicator), PERIV (Fiscal Year Variant), PERID (Period: day, week, month, posting period as rep. internally).. See below for full list along with technical details, documentation, text table, check tables, foreign key relationships, conversion routines, relevant tcodes and example ABAP select code etc. .
Delivery Class:Display/Maintenance via tcode SM30: Display/Maintenance Allowed but with Restrictions
SAP enhancement categories: Can be enhanced (character-type or numeric)
SAP MERKMABS structure fields - Full list of fields found in SAP data dictionary
Field | Description | Data Element | Data Type | length (Dec) | Check table | Conversion Routine | Domain Name | MemoryID | SHLP |
CLINT | Characteristics combination | CHKEYGRP | NUMC | 10 | VTINT | ||||
LNPOS | Combination value key | CHCOMBKEY | NUMC | 5 | NUM05 | ||||
PERKZ | Period Indicator | PERKZ | CHAR | 1 | PERKZ | PKZ | |||
PERIV | Fiscal Year Variant | PERIV | CHAR | 2 | Assigned to domain | PERIV | |||
PERID | Period: day, week, month, posting period as rep. internally | PERID | CHAR | 8 | CHAR8 | ||||
ERTAG | First day of the period to which the values refer | ERTAG | DATS | 8 | DATUM | ||||
MENGE | Quantity | QUAN1_9 | QUAN | 17(3) | MENGV9 | ||||
MEINS | Base Unit of Measure | MEINS | UNIT | 3 | Assigned to domain | CUNIT | MEINS |
Key field | Non-key field |
How do I retrieve data from SAP structure MERKMABS using ABAP code?
As MERKMABS is a database structure and not a table it does not store any data in the SAP data dictionary. The ABAP SELECT statement is therefore not appropriate and can not be performed on MERKMABS as there is no data to select.How to access SAP table MERKMABS
Within an ECC or HANA version of SAP you can also view further information about MERKMABS and the data within it using relevant transactions such asSE11 (ABAP Dictionary Maintenance)
SM30 (Maintain Table Data)
SE80 (Object Navigator)
SE16 (Data Browser).
Search for further information about these or an SAP related objects