topic Re: OPEN DATASET statement in Application Development and Automation Discussions

OPEN DATASET statement

Former Member — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:57:55 GMT

Hi experts,

How can I identify when I need to use "Encoding Default" or not in a OPEN DATASET statement?

I tried to see the version of my system, but both that I have are ECC 6, and both are No-Unicode, but one of them need to insert the ENCODING DEFAULT and the other don't.

Ex:

OPEN DATASET vl_archive FOR OUTPUT IN TEXT MODE.

OPNE DATASET vl_archive FOR OUTPUT IN TEXT MODE ENCODING DEFULT.

Thanks for your help!

Best Regards

Victor Marquise

Re: OPEN DATASET statement

former_member219762 — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:29:50 GMT

Hi Victor,

Please go through this http://help.sap.com/abapdocu_702/en/abapopen_dataset_mode.htm#!ABAP_ALTERNATIVE_2@2@

Regards,

Sreenivas.

Re: OPEN DATASET statement

Former Member — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 04:59:37 GMT

The addition IN TEXT MODE opens the file as a text file. The addition ENCODING defines how the characters are represented in the text file. When writing in a text file, the content of a data object is converted to the representation entered after ENCODING, and transferred to the file. If the data type is character-type and flat, trailing blanks are cut off. In the data type string, trailing blanks are not cut off. The end-of-line marking of the relevant platform is applied to the transferred data by default. When reading from a text file, the content of the file is read until the next end-of-line marking, converted from the format specified after ENCODING into the current character format, and transferred to a data object.

The end-of-line marking depends on the operating system of the application server. In the MS Windows operating systems, the markings "CRLF" and " LF" are possible, while under Unix, only "LF" is used. If, when using Windows, an existing file is opened without the TYPE addition (see os_addition), the first end-of-line marking is found and used for the whole file. If a new file is created without the TYPE addition, the content of the profile parameter abap/NTfmode is used. If the profile parameter is not set, "CRLF" is used. If a file with the TYPE addition is opened and a valid value is contained in attr, this value is used.

http://help.sap.com/abapdocu_70/en/ABAPOPEN_DATASET_ENCODING.htm

Re: OPEN DATASET statement

Former Member — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 05:11:57 GMT

Hi Victor,

Check your software component versions (SAP_ABA, SAP_BASIS etc) on both systems, it may be different on both system.

Syntax may dependent on versions.

Regards

Praveen

Re: OPEN DATASET statement

Former Member — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:53:39 GMT

Hello,

Thanks for all answers... I saw every suggestion and I think that my case is the difference between the Support Packages like Praveen said...

I really appreciate everyone's help. thank you!

Regards