During an R3load import process, you are importing the data files generated from a successful R3load export.
However, you are seeing errors in the <PACKAGE>.log file along the lines of:
(DB) INFO: connected to DB
(DB) INFO: DbSlControl(DBSL_CMD_NLS_CHARACTERSET_GET): UTF16
(RFF) ERROR: <PACKAGE>.TOC is not from the same export as <PACKAGE>.001 This occurs when the TOC (table of contents) file is corrupt.
The TOC file is generated during the export process and contains the name(s) of the tables in the export package and the number of records inside the relevant data files (files ending with .nnn e.g. .001).
The corruption can happen if you terminated an export, or an export failed (maybe because of disk space), and you then restarted the export (either through the SUM, SAPInst or by manually editing the .properties file).
If you failed to remove the already generated .TOC file for the failed package, before restarting the export, then the .TOC file will be confused and think that the subsequent export, is an append operation to the existing data file.
A normal .TOC file should have something like:
vn: R7.20/V1.6
id: de1a50a500000043
cp: 4102
data_with_checksum
tab: [HEADER]
fil: <PACKAGE>.001 1024
1 1
eot: #0 rows 20130902160509
tab: <TABLE>
fil: <PACKAGE>.001 1024
2 1024000
eot: #50212404 rows 20130902184553 eof: #20130902184553
A corrupt .TOC file for the same package, would look something like:
vn: R7.20/V1.6
id: de1a50a500000043
cp: 4102
data_with_checksum
tab: [HEADER]
fil: <PACKAGE>.001 1024
1 1
eot: #0 rows 20130902160509
tab: <TABLE>
fil: <PACKAGE>.001 1024
2 1024000
eot: #50212404 rows 20130902184553
tab: <TABLE>
fil: <PACKAGE>.001 1024
1024001 2048000
eot: #50212404 rows 20130903161923
eof: #20130903161923
Notice the additional four lines generated in the file during a second export attempt.
This would cause the import to fail.
It’s not possible to adjust the .TOC file manually, as it seems that the .TOC file and the data files are tied with a checksum somehow.
The only time you will find out that the export .TOC files are corrupt, is when you try to import them. Maybe SAP could write a verification routine into the R3load program.
