How to Hide an Employee's Date of Birth in the PREM Search Help?

According to your company’s internal policies and regulations, there may be a need to hide employees’ birth dates when working with transactions PA20/PA30.

How can the desired result be achieved?

From a technical standpoint, the task involves hiding information in the integrated search help PREM, which is used to display employee search results in transactions PA20/PA30.

In the SAP system, an employee’s date of birth is stored as the start date of Infotype 0002 – “Personal Data,” and consequently, it is displayed in the PREM search help results.

To address the issue described above, you need to perform the following configuration in SPRO:

IMG Path: Personnel Management -> Personnel Administration -> Basic Settings -> Mask Date of Birth in Search Results -> Activate Masking Date of Birth in Search Results

It is also possible to maintain table T77S0 directly using transaction SM30. Select one of the permissible values for the switch group ADMIN, BIRTH.

If necessary, it is also possible to hide the date of birth only for employees belonging to a specific personnel area. To do this, configure the setting located at the following path in SPRO:

IMG Path: Personnel Management -> Personnel Administration -> Basic Settings -> Mask Date of Birth in Search Results -> Restrict Masking Date of Birth to Specific Personnel Areas

As a result of these settings, the employee search results in transactions PA20/PA30 may appear as follows:

Or alternatively like this:

For more information, refer to SAP Note 2170280 - PREM and Object Manager: Masking Date of Birth in Search Results of Personnel Search.