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finding possible sy-subrc values

Former Member — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 12:19:48 GMT

Hi all,

How to find possible values for the sy-subrc and thier description.

I need all the possible values for sy-subrc and their description it means in which situations sy-subrc returns that value.

thanks in advance

Re: finding possible sy-subrc values

Former Member — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 12:23:33 GMT

Hi!

In most common we can say, SY-SUBRC = 0 with the normal end, <> 0 with an abnormal end of the command.

Every command has different return values, but in the ABAP help, you can find the exact values for everyone. Just type in for example SELECT press F1 on the command.

Regards

Tamá

Re: finding possible sy-subrc values

Former Member — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 12:24:36 GMT

Hi,

There are no fixed values for Sy-subrc field.

If you use it in a program mostly we checls for zero or not.

Zero for sucessful and others some problems.

If you use in fun modules many values you can expect like 2, 4, 8 etc.

I think they are not stored in a particular table.

regards,

Anji

Re: finding possible sy-subrc values

Former Member — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 12:25:01 GMT

hi......

SY-SUBRC

Return value set by the following ABAP statements. In general, a content of 0 means that the statement was executed without problems.

ASSIGN sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if assignment to field symbol is possible, otherwise 4.

ASSIGN <dref>->* sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if dereferencing is possible, otherwise 4.

AUTHORITY-CHECK sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if the user has the necessary authorization, otherwise 4, 8, 12, 16, 24, 28, 32, or 36 depending on the cause.

CALL DIALOG with USING sets SY-SUBRC to 0, if processing was successful, otherwise <>0.

CALL FUNCTION sets SY-SUBRC according to the exception handling.

CALL METHOD sets SY-SUBRC according to the exception handling.

CALL SELECTION-SCREEN sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if the user chose Enter or Execute and 4 if the user chose Cancel.

CALL TRANSACTION with USING sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if processing was successful, otherwise <>0.

CATCH SYSTEM-EXCEPTIONS sets SY-SUBRC if there are runtime errors after the ENDCATCH statement. The value is specified in the program.

COMMIT WORK sets SY-SUBRC to 0.

COMMIT WORK AND WAIT sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if update was successful, otherwise <>0.

COMMUNICATION INIT DESTINATION … RETURNCODE sets SY-SUBRC as specified.

CONCATENATE sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if the result fits into target variable, otherwise 4.

CREATE OBJECT sets SY-SUBRC if the exceptions of the instance constructor are handled.

CREATE OBJECT in OLE2 sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if an external object was created, otherwise 1,2, 3 with different causes.

DELETE sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if the operation was successful, otherwise 4 or <> 0 depending on cause.

DEMAND … MESSAGES INTO sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if a message table is empty, otherwise <> 0.

DESCRIBE LIST sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if row or list exists, otherwise 4 or 8.

EXEC SQL - ENDEXEC sets SY-SUBRC to 0 in almost all cases. Only if no set was read with FETCH is SY-SUBRC 4.

FETCH sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if at least one row was read, otherwise 4.

GENERATE SUBROUTINE POOL sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if generation was successful, otherwise 8.

GET CURSOR sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if the cursor is correctly positioned, otherwise 4.

GET PARAMETER sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if value found in SAP Memory, otherwise 4.

IMPORT sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if import of data objects was successful, otherwise 4.

LOAD REPORT sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if the operation was successful, otherwise 4 or 8 depending on cause.

LOOP sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if loop over extract was passed at least once, otherwise 4.

LOOP AT sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if loop over internal table was passed at least once, otherwise 4.

MODIFY sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if operation was successful, otherwise 4.

MODIFY LINE sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if list row was changed, otherwise <> 0.

MODIFY sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if operation was successful, otherwise 4.

OLE2 automation, bundled commands set SY-SUBRC to 0 if all were successfully executed, otherwise 1, 2, 3, 4 depending on cause.

OPEN DATASET sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if the file was opened, otherwise 8.

Open SQL commands set SY-SUBRC to 0 if operation was successful, otherwise <>0.

OVERLAY sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if at least one character is overlayed, otherwise 4.

READ DATASET sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if the read operation was successful, otherwise 4 or 8 depending on cause.

READ LINE sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if list row exists, otherwise <> 0.

READ TABLE sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if the table row was found, otherwise 2, 4, 8 depending on cause.

REPLACE sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if search string could be replaced, otherwise <> 0.

ROLLBACK WORK always sets SY-SUBRC to 0.

SCROLL sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if scrolling in list successful, otherwise 4 or 8 depending on cause.

SEARCH sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if search string was found, otherwise 4.

SELECT sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if at least one row was read, otherwise 4 or even 8 with SELECT SINGLE FOR UPDATE.

SET COUNTRY sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if country ID was found in table T005X, otherwise 4.

SET BIT sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if bit was set, otherwise <> 0.

SET TITLEBAR sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if title exists, otherwise 4.

SHIFT … UP TO sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if position was found in character string, otherwise 4.

SPLIT sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if size of target fields is sufficient, otherwise 4.

UPDATE sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if operation successful, otherwise 4.

WRITE … TO sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if assignment successful, otherwise 4.

Do reward for helpful answers...

Regards,

Haritha

Re: finding possible sy-subrc values

Former Member — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 12:27:41 GMT

Hi,

The values and there meanings depend on the statement. One important thing is that when SY-SUBRC = 0, then the previous statement is successful, when it is not 0, then the previous statement was not successful.

For examples:

sy-subrc = 0 -

Success

sy-subrc = 4 -

Failure(known reason)

sy-subrc = 8 -

Internal error(Unknown reason).

sy-subrc = 1001 -

Error in batch input processing

Regards,

Ferry Lianto

Re: finding possible sy-subrc values

Former Member — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 12:48:30 GMT

Hi shweta,

SY-SUBRC

Return value set by the following ABAP statements. In general, a content of 0 means that the statement was executed without problems.

Mainly sy-subrc set the value

0-->for success ful statements

4-->for unsuccess ful statements

and check does not set sy-subrc.

For exceptions sy-subrc returns the exception number

The following are the different values of sy-subrc for different statements.