Set your GLSU Validation Options

The GLSU ABAP program will allow you to configure the GLSU validations to your requirements.

The GLSU ABAP program can be accessed by typing transaction ZGLSU in the box at the top of your SAP GUI.

Master data may be downloaded to your PC each time you run the ABAP on an ad hoc basis or in a real-time (live) fashion.

You may individually select or de-select certain SAP master data items as you require. For example: if you never post to customers or profit centers, de-select those items, and your validation update process will execute faster when in offline mode.

Select the Validation Options button in the ZGLSU transaction.

The following explains each of the fields in the Validation Options dialog box.

1. Master data checkboxes: Activate these checkboxes if you wish to download these master data values to your PC.
2. Text checkboxes: Activates these checkboxes to download the text values (labels) for the associated master data value. These default to the OFF position. By turning these on, you can see a search-help dialog box in the Excel spreadsheet. See next page.
3. Premium Only - Suppressed / Required / Optional radio buttons: If you are a Premium-level user, you will have the option to make selected validation fields either Suppressed/ Required or Optional. This is similar to the way SAP Field Status Groups works. By Suppressing or Requiring individual fields, users will not have the option to make their own choices about whether they validate for these fields or not. These radio button selections affect the entire GLSU installation for your SAP system and affect every user. Standard Users will not have the capability to change these selections. These radio buttons also have no relevance when a master data item is selected to be Live.
4. Premium Only - Off-line (.INI) or Real-time (Live): These radio buttons will tell GLSU the source for pre-validations, pick values, and descriptions. If you choose off-line, all pre-validations, pick values and description values will come from the off-line file that is sent to your workstation. If you choose Live, all pre-validations, pick values and descriptions will come from SAP in real-time. The more Live validations you configure, the smaller the PC footprint.
5. Company Codes to Validate: Choosing a range of company codes will limit all master data values to these ranges of companies (when the validation is set to the .INI setting, this is not valid for real-time validations) If there are company codes at your organization which you never use or post entries to, then omit them from your selection here. Those values will not be saved on your PC’s validation file.
6. Sort Fields Radio Button: This radio button controls the sort order of the pick list in the GLSU spreadsheet.
7. Save Changes: You must select Save Changes for GLSU to store your selections

You can also select ranges of master data to be sent to the .INI file. This will allow you to exclude ranges of master data that you do not normally use.

For instance, if you do not use all the company codes which have been configured for your organization, you can limit the range of company codes to a specific range or list of individual values. This will work for each of the master data elements that GLSU validates.

In short, if you do not use the data item, do not send it to the .INI file. This will improve the processing performance of GLSU.