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Control indicators in QPMK and storage in

field QPMK-STEUERKZ
August 5, 2013 | 5,963 Views |
Craig S
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PLM Quality Management (QM)

Chemicals | SAP ERP | characteristic | characteristics | chemicals | enterprise resource planning | master inspection
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A question was recently asked about how to read the various values from the
QPMK (Master inspection characteristics), table. One of the keys for
understanding the values is knowing how to read the field QPMK-
STEUERKZ. This is a 30 character text field and when you display it, it looks
like a jumble of X’s and miscellaneous characters. However, this field is very
important to QM and the master inspection characteristics. SAP uses this field
to store all the control indicators related to a master inspection characteristic,
(MIC).
It is often very valuable to understand how to use this field to find out certain
things about the MIC’s in the system. Unfortunately, I have never seen an
SAP help file or document that provides the means to decode this field and all
the values for each character position. I searched before writing this
document and found several threads that explained parts of it and a few that
had a list of the indicators, (actually, mostly old threads in various forums
where I had responded!). But I didn’t really find a good, complete document.
So I though it was time to put one up.
Knowing how to use this field can be especially valuable during spec writing,
programming, data gathering, troubleshooting, verification of data loading,
report writing, data analysis, and exporting to Excel or other external
application, etc…
If you look at the field QPMK_STEUERKZ in any table view transaction you’ll
see something like the screen shot below.
Each character of the field has meaning for a specific control indicator. In
most cases, the indicator is either selected (X) or not (null). In a few cases,
other characters might be used to indicated specific choices.
(Yes.. I know.. SAP could have just assigned 30 more single character fields to
the table, given really nice help files on each field, and saved us a lot trouble
from having to break this field apart and determine all the values for ourselves
when ever we need to write a program. But they didn’t, so get over it. Plus it
helps to keep consultants in business.)
Over the years, I have decoded MOST of the positional characters, but not all
of them. Some of the character positions I believe are not used and could be
utilized for future releases. Below is my list of the positions, their meaning,
and notes on any special characters or usage that I am aware of.
Please… if you can add more information about any of the character positions
or how they are utilized, or if you think I’ve gotten any of these wrong,
PLEASE, let me know with a comment or message. I will be sure to update
the chart and credit the person making the contribution. It would also be nice
for folks to leave comments on how they used this info. Was it in a report?
Data extraction? etc..
Thanks! I hope you find this information valuable.
FF
Character Meaning Values

position
1 Quant or Qual charac X is quant, Null is Qual.
2 Record measured X or Null, (set to null if 1 is qual)
Values
3 Characteristic X or Null
Attributes
4 Upper Spec X or Null
5 Lower Spec X or Null
6 Target Value X or Null
7 Scope = is Fixed, > is Larger, < is smaller,
Null is No Scope**
8 Long term inspection X or Null
9 Recording type + is individual, null is summarized, –
is no recording, * is classed recording

10 Documentation Null is no documentation
. (period) is doc required if rejected
+ is doc required
11 Charac. req. or not X is required, Null is optional, + is
after acceptance, – is after rejection
12* Synchronization is X or Null
Active
13 Additive charac. X or Null
14 Destructive charac. X or Null
15 Formula Null is no formula, X is calculated
chara, 1 is input processing
16 Sampling proc. X or Null
Required
17 Scrap Share/Q score X or Null
18* Fixed X or Null – Ctrl indicators can not be
changed
19* Record # defects X or Null – Allows recording of # of

defects in addition to # of
nonconforming units
20* Subsystem X or Null – For control stations –

Not QM relevant
21* Specifications X or Null – Can Change specs
22 Test Equipment X or Null

23 Defects recording X or Null
24 RR Change Docs X or Null
25 SPC charac. X or Null
26 Print Null is print, X – Do no print, * is do
not print at skip
27* Parameter X or Null – Can be used as a
Characteristic Parameter characteristic
28* Process Characteristic X or Null – Characteristic of a the

process
29 UNKNOWN
30 UNKNOWN
* Inferred from Table TQ27 and related F1 help. I was not able to directly
verify these fields by setting up MIC’s to reflect these values and then verify
directly in the table QPMK. But I believe them to be correct. – Using the TQ27
to figure out the ones I had missing was suggested by Martin Hinderer.
Thanks Martin for the suggestion to help fill in some of the fields.
** updated from information from Marc Werner. Thanks Marc!
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Martin Hinderer
August 5, 2013 at 1:12 pm
Hi FF,
I read once that table TQ27 contains the information on this field. There is e.g. the
information that for position 10 the setting “Synchronisation is active” is set (fields of this
table seem to be in the same order as within the STEUERKZ).
Maybe this helps to complete this document?
Regards
MH
Craig S Post author
August 5, 2013 at 2:13 pm
Thanks Martin! It looks like the fields match up with the control indicators
but some of them I don’t know how to actually confirm. So I’m going to
mark these as having been inferred from the table TQ27.
Thanks for the lead!!!
FF
Former Member
August 10, 2013 at 5:51 am
Good one.. I used to refer only first 2 fields to differentiate Quant. & Qual.
Characteristics. Its nice explanation about all characters.
Of course, its bit tough to come across all characters.
Nitin Jinagal
October 30, 2013 at 9:35 am
Wow!!
Fantastic work Craig. Never thought of even exploring about such table. Only known
thing to me was that we made the master data for MICs with several X but did not know
about their significance in so much detail.
Regards,
Nitin
Craig S Post author
October 30, 2013 at 3:10 pm
Thank you Nitin. I hope it comes in handy someday for you.
Craig
Marc Werner
December 11, 2013 at 2:06 pm
Hi Craig,
please have a look to documentation on the report RCPTRA01.
We used this documentation for copying inspection plans from our old system (VAX).
HTH
Marc
Craig S Post author
Yes, I’ve used that program. But that doesn’t really have anything to do
with this topic does it?
Craig
John Lutz
That does have a fairly thorough overview of the control

indicator settings…
Craig S Post author
I’ll go through it again but I didn’t see where it

explained how the values were stored. I might
have missed something though. Wouldn’t be the
first time!
Craig
Martin Hinderer
December 16, 2013 at 9:07 am
Interesting….the relevant section

starts with “BIPMK – Inspection
characteristics” and does contain
information about characteristics for
operations in inspection plans beeing
loaded to the system (so to my
undestanding not referenced MICs,
but ones directly added to the plan).
I agree to John’s statement, but it

raises some questions. Lets take a
look at inspection scope (Position 7):
The information in this document

here states : = is Fixed, + is Larger, –
is smaller, Null is No Scope
The information in the upload

program documentation states:
BIPMK-PUMFKZ Indicator:
Inspection scope
This indicator can have various

values:
Set ” ” for: scope not fixed
Set “<” for: smaller scope
Set “>” for: larger scope
Set “=” for: fixed scope
I would assume therefore that the

program uses a different syntax than
the SAP table where the information
is stored. Nevertheless it might add
some more value to this SCN
document. To be verified…
Regards
MH
Martin Hinderer
December 16, 2013 at 9:28 am
I did some more investigation:
looking with SE11 in table TQ27

for the field PUMFKZ
this field links to domain
QPUMFKZ
this domain has the value range
as specified in the
documentation to RCPTRA01
(with the > and <)
I am not sure how the values + and –

came into the document, I would
assume that Craig provided them
with the initial version? Which brings
me to the assumption that in this
case either both values (+,- or <,>)
are working, or that we might have to
correct this here. Within the system I
am having here the table QPMK has
(<,>) at this position.
Craig S can you confim that?
Regards
MH
Craig S Post author
I will try to double check that this

week. The values I have posted
came from a document I had for my
own personal use from several years
back. Possibly as far back as 3.1 or
4.0.
Is it possible that SAP changed

these along the way? I’ll see what I
can find out.
Craig
Former Member
Very nice and Explanatory ….Thank you Craig…
Former Member
January 30, 2014 at 4:56 pm
Hi all,
for my case the schema is’t like yours.
Little example:
IN QPMK-STEUERKZ i have found value ‘XX ‘ I know it is a quantitative indicator.
Another case is ‘X ‘ it is a qualitative indicator.
So in my case Quant. or Qual. charac. is 2nd char not the 1st.
So what is the first char???
Regards
DB
Craig S Post author
No. the first character is qual or quant.
In below examples I use ^ to represent a null value.
XX is Quant with “record measured values” set.
X^ is Quant with “record measured values” not set.
^^ is Qual with “record measured value” not set.
I do not believe you’ll find the condition of ^X which would be Qualitative

with “record measured values” set.
If you do have a qualitative characteristic where QPMK-STEUERKZ starts

with an “X” in the first characteristic I would be very interested in seeing the
QPMK entry in a screen and a second & third screen shot seeing the 1st
and 2nd page of control indicators. Making sure that in all screen shots you
can see the mic and version numbers. But your QPMK table example
MUST be exported to Excel and displayed in a non-proportional font.
Be very careful when you display and look at QPMK-STEUERKZ.
This screen shot is from the QPMK table display of a quantitative

(A001001) and qualitative (A006005) MIC.
In this shot it looks like the first characters X for both the quant and qual
MIC.
This is the same data exported to Excel. The Excel sheet is using an Arial
10 font by default.
It now looks very much like an XX for the quant and a ^X for the qual.
In this screen shot, I selected column E and changed the font for that
column to Courier New 10.
Courier New is a non-proportional font. In non-proportional fonts, all letters

AND spaces take up exactly the same space. An i takes up the same
space as a M. Most displays and default fonts are proportional fonts where
the space used by a letter is based on the size of the letter.
I recommend when working with any master data

conversions or examining data, switch to a non-
proportional font. It can help prevent errors and can
speed up the review of large data sets. Not a lot of
people do this. This paragraph is a non-proportional
font.
Craig
Former Member
January 31, 2014 at 9:38 am
Thanks Craig for your explanation.
Now it’s much clear.
So i can move qpmk-steuerkz to structure QMKST and have result.
DB
Craig S Post author
I have no clue about the moving this stuff to a structure as I’m not an
ABAP’er. But I would assume you can copy it into a structure and than
parse it as needed to use the data.
Craig
Former Member
February 26, 2014 at 11:59 am
I bellieve the standard function module QSS0_QMKST_RQMST can help…
If you fill in the import parameter QMKST_IMP using same values and positions of
QPMK-STEUERKZ like below:
After executing this function, it will give you the translation in the export parameter
RQMST_EXP:
Verrazano Bell
September 11, 2015 at 10:14 pm

Craig!!!!!
Fantastic!! You mentioned this could be valuable “one day”… This was valuable
TODAY!!!
V.
Corne Ackermann
September 13, 2018 at 5:25 am
It will also make it easier to download (read) the data when using SE16 instead of
SE16N.
Corne
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Character Meaning Values

is no recording, * is classed recording

19* Record # defects X or Null – Allows recording of # of

20* Subsystem X or Null – For control stations –

21* Specifications X or Null – Can Change specs

22 Test Equipment X or Null

28* Process Characteristic X or Null – Characteristic of a the

** updated from information from Marc Werner. Thanks Marc!

August 5, 2013 at 1:12 pm

Maybe this helps to complete this document?

Craig S Post author

August 5, 2013 at 2:13 pm

Thanks for the lead!!!

August 10, 2013 at 5:51 am

Of course, its bit tough to come across all characters.

October 30, 2013 at 9:35 am

Craig S Post author

October 30, 2013 at 3:10 pm

Thank you Nitin. I hope it comes in handy someday for you.

December 11, 2013 at 2:06 pm

please have a look to documentation on the report RCPTRA01.

Craig S Post author

December 11, 2013 at 3:40 pm

December 11, 2013 at 4:17 pm

That does have a fairly thorough overview of the control

Craig S Post author

December 11, 2013 at 9:22 pm

I’ll go through it again but I didn’t see where it

December 16, 2013 at 9:07 am

Interesting….the relevant section

I agree to John’s statement, but it

The information in this document

The information in the upload

This indicator can have various

Set ” ” for: scope not fixed

Set “<” for: smaller scope

Set “>” for: larger scope

Set “=” for: fixed scope

I would assume therefore that the

December 16, 2013 at 9:28 am

I did some more investigation:

looking with SE11 in table TQ27

I am not sure how the values + and –

Craig S can you confim that?

Craig S Post author

December 16, 2013 at 2:00 pm

I will try to double check that this

Is it possible that SAP changed

December 11, 2013 at 10:44 pm

Very nice and Explanatory ….Thank you Craig…

January 30, 2014 at 4:56 pm

for my case the schema is’t like yours.

IN QPMK-STEUERKZ i have found value ‘XX ‘ I know it is a quantitative indicator.

Another case is ‘X ‘ it is a qualitative indicator.

So in my case Quant. or Qual. charac. is 2nd char not the 1st.

So what is the first char???

Craig S Post author

January 30, 2014 at 6:26 pm

No. the first character is qual or quant.