TCB16 SAP table for – Predefined Charact. Groups for Message and Instruction Cat.

Here we would like to draw your attention to TCB16 table in SAP. As we know it is being mainly used with the SAP PP-PI (Production Planning for Process Industries – PP) component which is coming under PP module (Production Planning). TCB16 is a SAP standard transparent table used for storing Predefined Charact. Groups for Message and Instruction Cat. related data in SAP. It comes under the package COCB.

SAP TCB16 table

Table TCB16 technical data

TableTCB16
Data storingPredefined Charact. Groups for Message and Instruction Cat.
ModulePP
ComponentPP-PI
SAP PackageCOCB
Delivery ClassS – System table, data changes have the status of program changes
Table CategoryTRANSPARENT

SAP TCB16 Table Fields

Here is the details of each fields in this table.You can find the discription, data type and assigned lenth of each of the fields in TCB16 table.

  • MANDT : Client
    Its a key field. Its data type is C (Character String) with field length 3
  • CSTYP : Object type: proc.message category or proc. instr. category
    Its a key field. Its data type is C (Character String) with field length 2
  • ATKLA
    Its a key field. Its data type is C (Character String) with field length 10
  • CUSTCNTXT
    Its data type is C (Character String) with field length 2