Ariba Provided Extraction Program ZARIBA_SSP_MASTER_DATA_PULL
This program needs a review from Ariba side. This is not 'Plug-n-Play extraction. A significant time is to be invested to modify the extracted files.
MACRO Level Important shortcoming/Limitation of the program:
Selection screen facility do not exist:
First and main shortcoming of this program is , it download ALL the information in the system. eg: if the program is executed for say G/L account, this would extract ALL the G/L accounts. For those who are from SAP background, you would miss the 'selection screen' functionality, where one can choose only selected company codes, or only selected G/L accounts ( same applies for company codes, plants, suppliers and so on)
Adjustments are to be done using ZARIBTVARV / TVARVC tables, which is not actually a self intuitive.
Documentation :
At SE38, this program offers no documentation at all.
MICRO level Shortcomings:
Multiple problems exist in this extraction program
1. some of the extracts do not fetch all the columns mentioned in the data dictionary and some of the columns fetched by this program do not exist in Data dictionary
2. Some files which are generated with this extraction program, do not fetch correct value for the column heading. eg: for column BUKRS - company code, the program fetches Chart of Accounts /Controlling area as information in extraction
3. Some of the checkboxes extract 'multiple files' as a result, there are 17 selection checkboxes for th program but the extracted files are more than 17. This is confusing to the new user.