Tuesday, February 23, 2010

RSA1: You Can Only Work in Client 001...

For those of you setting up a BI system for the first time, you will likely encounter this error when trying to run transaction RSA1:

"You Can Only Work in Client 001"

This is because although you can have just about as many clients as you like in your BI system, you may only actively use one client for BI. By default, the working client is 001. If you are like most people, however, you would rather use your own numbering scheme for clients.

When you plan on using a client other than 001 for BI, all you need to do is the following:

1. Go to Transaction SE16, and enter table RSADMINA
2. Leave everything blank to show all entries (there should only be 1 entry)
3. Select the check box in front of the first (and only) row and hit the change button (pencil)
4. Change the BWMANDT field entry to the client number you wish to use

This should fix the problem. No shutdown required, just go straight to RSA1 to check if it worked.

Hope this helps...