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RFC to execute a program

Former Member — Tue, 25 Jan 2005 14:16:00 GMT

Hi everyone.

Does anyone know if there's a ready made RFC function for executing an ABAP program.

I need to run a program on a remote system with parameters from my local system.

Any ideas?

Thanks, Nachshon.

Re: RFC to execute a program

Former Member — Tue, 25 Jan 2005 14:32:45 GMT

Hi Nachshon,

as you will also pass some values to parameters of the program I think you have to create your own rfc-fm in the other system.

regards

Siggi

Re: RFC to execute a program

andreas_mann3 — Tue, 25 Jan 2005 15:02:21 GMT

Hi ,

here's a very <b>dangerous</b> fm

<b>RFC_ABAP_INSTALL_AND_RUN</b>

I'd not use fm on a productive remote system !

regards Andreas

Re: RFC to execute a program

Former Member — Tue, 25 Jan 2005 15:02:40 GMT

Hi Nachshon,

Take a look at FM RFC_ABAP_INSTALL_AND_RUN; you will have to add a little logic to include selection parameters.

Regards,

John.

Re: RFC to execute a program

Former Member — Tue, 25 Jan 2005 15:32:57 GMT

Thanks for the replays.

In order to use FM RFC_ABAP_INSTALL_AND_RUN I will have to pass the program code in the table, and that as mentioned, is not a safe thing to do.

I guess I'll have to write a dedicated FM .

Thanks, Nachshon.

Re: RFC to execute a program

Former Member — Tue, 25 Jan 2005 22:29:57 GMT

Also, perhaps, you can write an RFC enabled function that accepts a program name to run and a table of structure RSPARAMS. Then the function can execute the program via:

SUBMIT rep WITH SELECTION-TABLE seltab

This way you can run any program remotely through this one function. Other parameters could be used to set standard program execution options. See the help documentation for SUBMIT.

The down side is that there could be security concerns with this solution. That should be considered before trying this.

Hope this helps.

Re: RFC to execute a program

Former Member — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 21:32:54 GMT

Do you want to run online / (or) execute the program in batch.

Thanks