Extending Number Assignment 

Use

You want to create more than 32,000 spool requests in the SAP system. In the SAP standard, the number of spool requests to be created is limited to 32,000. If you reach this limit, it is no longer possible to find a free number, and the short dump SPOOL_INTERNAL_ERROR occurs, and the dump itself or the syslog contains the message “Spool full” or “Spool overflow”. You have two options for reacting to the message:

·        You can have your spool requests deleted regularly in the background.

·        You extend the number assignment.

The following describes how to extend the number assignment. A maximum of 2 billion spool requests are possible in the system. To allow this, you need to set up the number range server correspondingly and make a number of adjustments.

Procedure

Proceed as follows to extend the number assignment:

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Change the number status and number range of the number range object SPO_NUM in the number range server (transaction SNRO).

Although you can theoretically have up to 2 billion requests in the system simultaneously, you should expect significant performance reduction as of values significantly over 99,000. The number of spool requests that can be “tolerably” stored in the system depends to a great extent on the performance of the database and the database server. Only the number of spool requests stored in the system simultaneously is relevant, not the size of the number range in itself.

Set the parameters as follows:

·        Upper limit of the range to the new value (such as 200,000).

·        New number status: 32,000 (or previous maximum value)

To ensure that the system does not attempt to assign spool numbers that have already been assigned, you should set the number status to 32,000 (or to the value that was previously entered as the maximum value in the number range). Note that you can only check the change of the number range in client 000. If you display the number range in another client, the old interval 100-32,000 will still be displayed. You can ignore this display, since only the entry in client 000 is relevant for the spool number range, as a cross-client number range.

 

See also:

For more information about extending number assignment, see SAP Note 48284 in the SAP Service Marketplace.

 

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