SAP Note

2601956 - SAP S/4HANA: Amount Field Length Extension: Restriction Note

Component: CA-FLE-AMT (Cross-Application Components > Cross Application Field Lenght Extension >
Amount Field Extension), Version: 3, Released On: 06.06.2024

Symptom
You are going to use SAP S/4HANA, on-premise edition 1809 or higher. This note collects information about restrictions in
these releases that are related to the amount field length extension.
For more information on amount field length extension, see SAP Note 2628654.

Other Terms
S/4HANA

Reason and Prerequisites

In SAP S/4HANA, the maximum length of amount fields has been extended to 23 digits including 2 decimals.
These generic restrictions apply only when you have activated the provided amount field length extension:

Description Applicat Comment

ion Com
ponent

Arithmetic Ove n/a The sum of individual items must not exceed 23 digits (including 2 decimals in ABAP internal repre
rflows sentation), otherwise dumps due to overflow will occur.

SAPscripts & S n/a Activating the provided amount field length extension might corrupt the layout and truncate amoun
mart Forms ts and other field contents in SAPscript and SAP Smart Form templates delivered by SAP.

Either create your own forms based on the SAP forms and adjust your layout accordingly or use Ado
be PDF-based output.

Adobe (PDF) F n/a In PDF forms, amounts with more than 15 digits might be rendered with rounding issues (the magn
orms itude will, however, be correct) as the control (XFO DecimalNumber) that is used to display decimal
s internally represents the amount as a double-precision binary floating-point number.
Note: This note will be updated when the limitation is resolved.

Tax Calculation SD/FI/AP Internal tax calculation using the SD condition technique does not support amount field length exte
/AR nsion. This means in particular that in FI/AP/AR postings with large amounts where taxes are invol
ved will not be possible due to internal tax calculation limitation. An error message will be raised.

Product Cost C CO-PC All Product Costing Controlling business processes do not support amount field length extension.
ontrolling
CO-PC-P
CP

CO-PC-O
BJ

CO-PC-A
CT

CO-PC-IS
 Analysis Office CO-OM-C BW frontends using Microsoft Excel do not support amount field length extension because MS Exce
for Excel Work CA l has a restriction to 15 digits precision for numeric datatypes.
books
Use other BW frontends (for example, Web client) for large amounts.

Posting on WB FI/CO-O WBS elements do not support amount field length extension.
S Elements M/PS

Funds Manage PSM-FM All Funds Management business processes do not support amount field length extension.
ment
Please note that some transactions in CO-OM are based on FI-FM (such as Earmarked Funds Com
mitment,
Availability Control, Budgeting, Overall Planning), so they do not support amount field length exten
sion.

Liquidity Calcu TR Liquidity Calculation does not support amount field length extension
lation

Reporting with n/a Use ALV grid to report large amounts in various FI, CO and Asset Accounting programs and reports
SAP List Viewe .
r (ALV) Classic

Integration wit n/a If your SAP S/4HANA system is embedded in a system landscape that contains other SAP products,
h Other SAP Pr integration may only be possible if the amount field length extension is not activated in SAP S/4HA
oducts NA in Customizing (Cross-Application Components -> General Application Functions -> Activate E
xtended Fields).
This restriction explicitly includes integration to SAP ERP, SAP CRM, SAP BW, SAP MDG, Ariba, S
AP Concur, SAP Fieldglass.

SPELL_AMOU CA-GTF_ Reports that use the function module SPELL_AMOUNT do not support amount field length extensi
NT Function M CSC on. Note: This note will be updated when the limitation is resolved.
odule

Solution
For further application-specific restrictions, see the SAP notes that refer to this restriction note.

This document refers to

SAP Note/KBA Component Title

3057355 FI-GL-IS RFBILA00: Error Message AFLE 013

2628654 CA-FLE-AMT S4TWL: Amount Field Length Extension

2602659 FI-GL AFLE: Scope and limitations

This document is referenced by

SAP Component Title
Note/KBA

3348949 SAP S/4HANA 2023: Restriction note

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3079550 XX-SER- SAP S/4HANA 2021: Restriction Note

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2943206 XX-SER- SAP S/4HANA 2020: Restriction Note

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2826929 XX-SER- SAP S/4HANA ON-PREMISE 1909, Globalization & Local Versions: Release Information &
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2668307 XX-SER- SAP S/4HANA OP1809, Globalization & Country Versions: Release Information & Restriction Note
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2659710 XX-SER- SAP S/4HANA 1809: Restriction Note

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2643282 FI-CF-AC Central Finance: Restrictions regarding Extended Amount Length