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Third, read the directory containing the SAP Job definition files. The corresponding values in the CALENDARID keyword will hook up to the calendars and their custom days. The conversion program recognizes different SAP calendar records by their lengths. Records that do not match are discarded.

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A calendar file can contain many calendar IDs, each describing different years. All unique calendar IDs are stored with a prefix describing its function. A working day (flagged 1 in the file) will be set accordingly in the created calendar, hence different workday definitions.

Custom Days

SAP custom day records describe each day of the year, flagged as 1 or 0. They can occur for different calendar IDs describing different years. Often, it is not necessary to convert all of them.

  • Records older than 730 days are discarded, leaving only the last one or two years valid.
  • Records newer than 1500 days are discarded, leaving the first 4 or 5 upcoming years valid.

The log will display which records are discarded.

SAP Job Definitions

Job definition files should be in a separate directory when using the conversion program.

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