We have an initiative to deactivate some of the SPLs in the system as we’ve got a confirmation on our client that those SPLs should be blocked from screening business partners. These specific lists of SPLs cause huge number of false positive matches. We already came up with an approach on how to deactivate them but then we need to seek for advice and help from experts and other resources who already done or have knowledge with this activity in GTS 10.0 version.
We cannot apply the SPL List type deletion using the customizing function because currently the archiving service of our system is not activated.
The approach that we’re looking at is to deactivate SPLs by adjusting their technical validity date (This is the current configuration set in our system. It considers the Technical validity and not the Official Legal validity of SPL) to a historical/expiry date. SPLs will then be tagged as for deletion therefore will not be able to match any business partners anymore. Below are the steps to do this:
- Extract SPL records from /SAPSLL/TSPL; filter by SPL List Type.
2. Set up a LSMW project; use a recording of transaction: /SAPSLL/SPL_MD02 (deletion of SPL).
3. Load data and execute batch session created by LSMW.
4. All SPL records from input file are now flagged for deletion.
Will this approach is good enough to be able to deactivate and separate such SPL List Type in screening entities? Or if you have other suggestions please let me know. Appreciate any response. Thanks!