topic Re: Open Dataset in Application Development and Automation Discussions

Open Dataset

Former Member — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 08:48:10 GMT

Dear all,

There seems to be a problem in

OPEN DATASET lfile IN TEXT MODE ENCODING DEFAULT FOR INPUT WITH SMART LINEFEED.

The above code works fine on OS400 operating system but when we execute the

same report on AIX platform the code is not getting executed. sy-subrc is returning the value 8.

Do we need to change the code for AIX.

with rgds

Ranjith Singh

Former Member — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 09:11:28 GMT

Hi,

Code looks fine to me.

Check the file. If it at all exists or not. File path and name is case sensitive.

If you are getting any runtime error please let me know.

Regards,

Former Member — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 09:15:40 GMT

Hi,

The file exists on the application server , while debugging i could see that the correct file is picked.

There is no Dump.

I am facing this problem in AIX

Former Member — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 09:23:44 GMT

Hi,

Can you please check what is the Encoding format?

The class CL_ABAP_FILE_UTILITIES contains the method CHECK_UTF8 for determining whether a file is a UTF-8 file.

Regards,

Former Member — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 09:38:57 GMT

hello,

You should always use text mode if you want to write strings to files or where you know that an existing file has a line construction.

can you check the structure of the file.

Regards,

Former Member — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 13:03:41 GMT

Try to catch the error ass following

DATA mess TYPE string.

OPEN DATASET lfile IN TEXT MODE

ENCODING DEFAULT

FOR INPUT

WITH SMART LINEFEED

MESSAGE mess.

Regrards