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Status Not under consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 8, 2017

Provide SAP Server Pack for SAP Application as a Customer-Specific Namespace

Please ensure that the namespace is registered in a customer-specific namespace.

The separation between customer objects and SAP objects can be carried out via the prefixes Y or Z as well as via an own namespace. The syntax is as follows: Z… Y… //… The customer-specific namespace can be registered with SAP. After SAP's confirmation, the namespace can be identified worldwide and it is registered for a use by the respective company. This process supports the conflict-free assignment of names for software objects.
The advantage of the customer-specific namespace is the guaranteed absence of overlaps when importing external projects into the own SAP system (e.g. when using external applications that are imported by a transport request) and when combining the SAP systems within the scope of a post-merger integration. With the reservation of the namespace, it is assured that a software object with the same prefix cannot be created on an external, e.g. non-registered system.