topic Application Server to Local in Application Development and Automation Discussions https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/application-server-to-local/m-p/843918#M44786 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hello All,</P><P></P><P> We have a Production support team which caters to the endusers. A scenarion where in a Custom report was run in the background and this has the download to UNIX directory. Since the end users are restricted for accessing the UNIX directory, we have created a small program which fetches this fle from Application server to the Local drive. But this small program has a limitation it picks only 255 character string, so if a record is above 255 char in the UNIX file , on the local directory we see the last fields missing ..... Is there a way to overcome this ..</P><P>The support team does not want to propose FTP, as it becomes there duty to retrieve the file on a daily basis and provide it to the end users.</P><P>Would be glad to have ur views on this ...</P><P></P><P>- PSK</P></BODY></HTML> Sat, 22 Jan 2005 14:08:51 GMT Former Member 2005-01-22T14:08:51Z Application Server to Local https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/application-server-to-local/m-p/843918#M44786 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hello All,</P><P></P><P> We have a Production support team which caters to the endusers. A scenarion where in a Custom report was run in the background and this has the download to UNIX directory. Since the end users are restricted for accessing the UNIX directory, we have created a small program which fetches this fle from Application server to the Local drive. But this small program has a limitation it picks only 255 character string, so if a record is above 255 char in the UNIX file , on the local directory we see the last fields missing ..... Is there a way to overcome this ..</P><P>The support team does not want to propose FTP, as it becomes there duty to retrieve the file on a daily basis and provide it to the end users.</P><P>Would be glad to have ur views on this ...</P><P></P><P>- PSK</P></BODY></HTML> Sat, 22 Jan 2005 14:08:51 GMT https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/application-server-to-local/m-p/843918#M44786 Former Member 2005-01-22T14:08:51Z Re: Application Server to Local https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/application-server-to-local/m-p/843919#M44787 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I assume you are doing a READ DATASET and then a GUI_DOWNLOAD?</P><P></P><P>Can you debug and determine where the data is being truncated?</P><P></P><P>Are you sure that the program that created the file is not at fault?</P><P></P><P>Check the help on OPEN DATASET to see the BINARY and TEXT options. You should match the technique that was used to create the dataset. </P><P></P><P>The 'GUI_DOWNLOAD" FM also has some length settings. Have you checked them?</P><P></P><P>Let us know how it goes.</P></BODY></HTML> Sun, 23 Jan 2005 15:04:20 GMT https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/application-server-to-local/m-p/843919#M44787 Former Member 2005-01-23T15:04:20Z