The data types and lengths for characteristics have been changed.

Previously, the maximum length of characteristic values was 60 characters. The maximum length is now 250 characters, which corresponds to 500 bytes. Domain RSCHAVL has therefore been changed from CHAR60 to SSTRING.

In the case of characteristics with texts, the long text can now be designated as Extra Long and can then be up to 1333 characters in length. Texts are therefore not transferred in structure RSTXTSML any more. They are now transferred in structure RSTXTSMXL instead. The fields have the same name, although field TXTLG in structure RSTXTSMXL is of type SSTRING.

To prevent changes to the metatadata of BAPIs resulting in incompatibility (BAPI_IOBJ_GETDETAIL, BAPI_IOBJ_CREATE and BAPI_IOBJ_CHANGE), field CHACONST in structure BAPI6108 has been kept as CHAR60. If a characteristic is set as constant, the fixed value is still transported in this field. If the fixed value is longer than 60 characters, it is truncated. The untruncated value is located in the new structure BAPI6108_2.

The released OLAP BAPIs have not been changed. These truncate texts that exceed 60 characters in length. If you want to user longer texts, you need to switch to an RFC-compatible API which supports this.

If you have your own coding, switching to data type SSTRING could result in syntax and runtime errors. For more information, see SAP Note 1823174.
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