/POSDW/MSGCAT SAP table for – Message Category

Here we would like to draw your attention to /POSDW/MSGCAT table in SAP. As we know it is being mainly used with the SAP BW-BCT (Business Content and Extractors in BW) component which is coming under BW module (Business Warehouse). /POSDW/MSGCAT is a SAP standard transp table used for storing Message Category related data in SAP. It comes under the package /POSDW/DATABASE.

SAP /POSDW/MSGCAT table

Table /POSDW/MSGCAT technical data

Table/POSDW/MSGCAT
Data storingMessage Category
ModuleBW
Sub ModuleBW-BCT-ISR-PIP
SAP Package/POSDW/DATABASE
Delivery ClassE – System table whose data is transported with its own transport objects
ComponentBI_CONT
Table CategoryTRANSP

SAP /POSDW/MSGCAT Table Fields

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

  • MANDT : Client
    Its a key field. Its data type is CLNT (Character with length 3) with field length 3
  • MESSAGECATEGORY : Message Category
    Its a key field. Its data type is CHAR (Character String) with field length 4