CN Number Over 10 Characters
There is a difference in the allowed database character length for the CN number attribute in Windchill and the Engineering Change Order (ECO) attribute number in Oracle Applications to which it is mapped. The Windchill CN number field limit is 32 characters, whereas the Oracle Applications ECO number field limit is 10 characters. If CNs from Windchill have CN numbers that are greater than 10 characters, an error appears and the middleware processing ends.
To prevent this from happening, you can do one of the following:
• Ask your administrator to add validation to the Windchill GUI to prevent CNs that are over 10 characters. For more information on how to limit attribute lengths in Windchill PDMLink, refer to the section Customizing Column Lengths in the Windchill Customizer’s Guide.
• Ask your administrator to modify Oracle Applications to allow ECOs to be created with ECO numbers up to 32 characters.
• Modify the EAI software components to truncate CN numbers to meet the required Oracle Applications field length.
For more information, have your administrator refer to the Windchill ESI Installation and Configuration Guide.