SAP Note 25365 - Allocation: error message GA733 or GA749

Symptom:

When you try to execute an FI-SL distribution or FI-SL assessment with variable portions as tracing factor, the following error messages are issued:
GA733 'The segment contains no receivers'
or
GA749 'Cycle &1, with starting date &2, does not contain any senders'

Cause and prerequisites

This frequently involves an inheritance problem of the allocation for summary tables, which have been installed prior to Release 4.6A.

Example:
The costs of cost element 400,000 have to be distributed from cost center 1000 to cost centers 2000 and 3000 according to the number of employees in these cost centers.

Sketch:

Sender Receiver Tracing factor
Account 400,000
Cost center 1000 2000, 3000
Stat. ratio MITARB


Due to the inheritance logic, cost element 400,000 is passed on to the receiver, and in the end also to the receiver tracing factor.
Cost centers 2000 and 3000 are passed on to the receiver tracing factor in exactly the same way.
The system now tries to find records with cost element 400,000, cost center 2000 and 3000, statistical ratio MITARB.
However, this is not possible since the statistical ratio is always only posted to one cost center (and never with cost element). Consequently, the system does not find a receiver tracing factor.

Solution

1. For summary tables which have been installed as of Release 4.6A the problem should no longer occur.
For tables which have been installed prior to Release 4.6A you can as of Release 4.6A deactivate the indicator "Inheritance from sender to receiver allocation basis" (T811U-INHERSRC) using Transaction GCA8.
Then no sender values except for the company code or the company and the version are inherited to the receiver allocation bases.

2. For Releases < 4.6A
You maintain the cycle described as follows:

Sketch

Sender Receiver Tracing factor
Account 400,000 INITIAL-SET
Cost center 1000 2000, 3000
Stat. ratio MITARB

You can correct the error by entering a set containing only one set line for the cost element in the receiver tracing factor. You must enter 10 blank characters in this set line (press the space bar exactly 10 times).
As a result, the system is forced to search for valid receiver tracing factors without cost elements, which you will find is eventually successful.

Caution:
The dimension Statistical Ratio is only an example of the problems with inheritance. The problem can occur for ANY dimension with similar constellations of senders, receivers and tracing factors.

Refer to Note 75800 up to and including Release 3.1I.
Note for development of error search:
Under certain circumstances error message GA749 is also generated in function module G_RECORD_CHECK_AGAINST_COMB.

Additional key words

Assessment, distribution, allocation
GA733, GA749