The Maintenance Plant Restrictions for Planning Groups option allows j5 to use a map to filter only by relevant planning groups for that maintenance plant on BAPI calls. This can result in better performance on large installations. This overrides any value set in Planning Group Filter. The value is formatted as first a maintenance plant, followed by a colon (:), then a comma-separated list of planning groups under that code, followed by a semicolon (;) to separate each maintenance plant section. The special value NULL is used to indicate the filter should include the empty option for planning group. If a maintenance plant has no planning groups configured, the BAPI calls for that maintenance plant will not filter by PLANGROUP_RA.
For example, if you have Planning Groups 100, IW3 and ZH1 under Maintenance Plant 1000, and Planning Groups 100, 101, 102 under Maintenance Plant 3000, and some Functional Locations under Maintenance Plant 3000 having no Planning Group, the configuration will be:
1000:100,IW3,ZH1;3000:100,101,102,NULL