Functionality
You can use this method to change additional information for thebusiness partner.
Using additional information you can store customer-specific attributesin the business partner in the form of categorized information types with the assigned fields with F4 input help, textfields, checkboxes, amount fields, currency fields, and date fieldsaccording to user. You can use this additional information for thepurpose of marketing or analysis, or purely for information, forexample.
You can create an infinite number of lower-level information types withcorresponding fields for an information category.You can use information types to further subdivide informationcategories. You can subdivide the information category vehiclesinto the information types convertible, four-by-four, andsports car. You can create additional information in the form oftext, date, amount, and currency fields for the individual vehiclecategories.
If you make the appropriate settings in Customizing, then you canprocess additional information for each differentiation type.

Recommendation
We recommend that new customers use only the Easy Enhancement Workbench for enhancing the SAP Business Partnerfor Financial Services data model.
The advantage of the Easy Enhancement Workbench is that you canenhance both the data model and the accompanying services (link toarchiving, change document update, data exchange, and so on). It is theonly tool to be used for making enhancements that is to be supported inthe future.
You can find further information on the Easy Enhancement Workbench
in the SAP Library by choosing SAP NetWeaver->Application Platform (SAP Web Application Server)-> Cross-ApplicationServices-> Easy Enhancement Workbench.
If you use Bank Analyzer pay particular attention to the separate noteson using additional information that are contained in the SAP Libraryfor the primary object Business Partner.

Notes
You can change only one record with additional information for eachbusiness partner.
A preprocessing run takes place before the data is changed:

• A check is performed to determine whether the business partner is
available for processing.

• A simple exclusive lock is activated.

This prevents other users from changing the business partner that iscurrently being processed until either the method TransactionCommit
or TransactionRollback for the Business ObjectBapiService is executed. The authorized user can access the samebusiness partner repeatedly.
The additional information is not written to the database until themethod TransactionCommit for the Business Object BapiService
has been called.

Authorizations
You can make settings for business partner authorization objects to bechecked in Customizing for the SAP Business Partner underBusiness Partner-> Basic Settings-> Authorization Management.

Buffering
This method works with buffering. Change and read methods for thisbusiness object category can be repeatedly used for this instance. Aftercalling the save method, read and write methods can access the bufferedinstances and supply current attributes in the same Logical Unit of Work (LUW)
.

Dependencies
Note the field UTC Time Stamp in Short Form(YYYYMMDDhhmmss) is obsolete in this parameter. This field hasonly an internal, technical meaning, and you must not change it. If youprocess the field in this method, the system will leave the field blankand issue a warning message.
You can determine additional information in Customizing for the SAPBusiness Partner for Financial Services in the IMG activity SetInformation Category by choosing Settings for Financial Services-> General Settings-> Enhancement Options-> Additional Information.
If you want to change differentiated additional information, the systemthen carries out the following checks:


• It checks whether the business partner is available in a role that
permits the differentiation of additional information.

• It checks whether the differentiation criterion is permissible.

If the entries in the Customizing settings for differentiationare correct, then you can change additional information.
You make settings for differentiation in Customizing for the SAPBusiness Partner for Financial Services under Settings forFinancial Services-> General Settings-> Basic Settings->Differentiation-> Define Differentiation Criterions and SetDifferentiation Criterion.

Return messages
Messages are returned in the Return parameter. You can find thereturn values and their meaning in the parameter documentation.

Further information
You will find more information about additional information in theSAP Library by choosing SAP Business Partner for FinancialServices-> Functions-> SAP Business Partner Data-> AdditionalInformation.

Description
This parameter is a required (mandatory) parameter.
You can find information about the meaning of the parameter in thecorresponding documentation for the data element:Business Partner Number.

Value range
The value range for the parameter corresponds to the value range for thedomain of the data element.

Description
This parameter is obsolete and does not have a function.
The system generates change documents automatically.

Value range

Description
You can find information about the meaning of the parameter in thecorresponding documentation for the data element: DBField Contents Must Be Valid at This Date.
INCLUDE BAPITESTRUN OBJECT DOKU ID TX

Description
This parameter is a required (mandatory) parameter.
Using additional information you can store customer-specific attributesin the business partner in the form of categorized information types with the assigned fields with F4 input help, textfields, checkboxes, amount fields, currency fields, and date fieldsaccording to user. You can use this additional information for thepurpose of marketing or analysis, or purely for information, forexample.
You can create an infinite number of lower-level information types withcorresponding fields for an information category.You can use information types to further subdivide informationcategories You can subdivide the information category vehiclesinto the information types convertible, four-by-four, andsports car. You can create additional information in the form oftext, date, amount, and currency fields to the individual vehiclecategories.
If you make the appropriate settings in Customizing, then you canprocess additional information for each differentiation type.
For more information about the individual parameter fields, see therelevant data element documentation in the ABAP Dictionary.
Note the field UTC Time Stamp in Short Form(YYYYMMDDhhmmss) is obsolete in this parameter. This field hasonly an internal, technical meaning, and you must not change it. If youprocess the field in this method, the system will leave the field blankand issue a warning message.
You have to transfer values for the following fields:


• Information category (ADDTYPE)


• Information type (DATA_TYPE)

Value range
You can find the value range for this parameter in Customizing for theSAP Business Partner for Financial Services in the IMG activitySet Information Category by choosing Settings for FinancialServices->General Settings -> Enhancement Options-> AdditionalInformation.

Description
This parameter is a required (mandatory) parameter.
You can find information about the meaning of the parameter in thecorresponding documentation for the data element:Change (Updated) Information in Related User DataField.
You have to transfer values for all fields to be changed in theparameter ADDITION.

Value range
'X' Change additional information
' ' Do not change additional information
INCLUDE BAPI_PARA_RETURN OBJECT DOKU ID TX