ECC - Installed base (IB51 IB52 IB53) BAPIs/classes/FMs

[AlbertoR]

Dear fellow ABAPers,

I am stuck in trying to find any way to programmatically install/remove equipment and/or material from/to an installed base in ECC.

I read each and every post here, but nobody seems to have a clue on how to do it in ECC: most of the posts refer to function modules that only exist in CRM, which of course I don't find in ECC.

I debugged the IB52 transaction to see which function modules are called in the background, but they seem quite tightly bound to the front-end events (a big part of the logic is coded in PAI/PBO modules which are bound to specificities of the screens i.e., table control etc.).

I found class cl_itob_ibase_install and I tried to copy it into a Z one to adapt it to my needs but I do not seem to have much success.

I manage to use function modules IB_COM_ENQUEUE_IBASE to lock an Ibase and IB_COM1_READ_IBASE to read its content at a given moment (using FM IB_CONVERT_INTO_TIMESTAMP), but when it comes to writing, things are much more difficult.

Does anyone have experience with this and could share his/her knowledge, please?

Note: I am not sharing any code with you for the time being, because I don't have any concrete piece of code working, therefore I am open to start from scratch depending on any much appreciated advice I would receive... 🙂

Thanks a lot in advance!

Kind regards,

Alberto

[FredericGirod]

When there is not good solution, you could go to the dark side and use batch-input.