https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/numc-value-saved-in-database-without-leading-0/m-p/380306#M9051 <P>Welcome to reality <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":winking_face:">😉</span></P><P>NUMC is a semantical dictionary type. On the database it's simply characters. No problem getting "illegal" values in there. Even in ABAP you can easily fill type n fields with alphas and then, when you save those ...</P><P>Same for DATS and TIMS. No guarantee for valid values.</P><P>In the ABAP world it's mainly the classical Dynpros that care for valid values. That's why batch input was/is so important.</P><P><A href="http://help.sap.com/abapdocu_751/en/index.htm?file=abenddic_special_character_types.htm">http://help.sap.com/abapdocu_751/en/index.htm?file=abenddic_special_character_types.htm</A></P> Mon, 13 Feb 2017 15:47:06 GMT retired_member 2017-02-13T15:47:06Z https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/numc-value-saved-in-database-without-leading-0/m-p/380305#M9050 <P>Hello to all,</P><P>I've encountered a weird case in which a database field defined as NUMC of length 14 has values stored without the appropiate leading zeroes.</P><P>How could this happen? The field is, and has always been, defined as NUMC.</P><P>I'm really shocked. Any ideas on how come did this happen?</P><P>Thanks in advance,</P><P>Best regards.</P> Mon, 13 Feb 2017 15:22:32 GMT https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/numc-value-saved-in-database-without-leading-0/m-p/380305#M9050 Former Member 2017-02-13T15:22:32Z https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/numc-value-saved-in-database-without-leading-0/m-p/380306#M9051 <P>Welcome to reality <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":winking_face:">😉</span></P><P>NUMC is a semantical dictionary type. On the database it's simply characters. No problem getting "illegal" values in there. Even in ABAP you can easily fill type n fields with alphas and then, when you save those ...</P><P>Same for DATS and TIMS. No guarantee for valid values.</P><P>In the ABAP world it's mainly the classical Dynpros that care for valid values. That's why batch input was/is so important.</P><P><A href="http://help.sap.com/abapdocu_751/en/index.htm?file=abenddic_special_character_types.htm">http://help.sap.com/abapdocu_751/en/index.htm?file=abenddic_special_character_types.htm</A></P> Mon, 13 Feb 2017 15:47:06 GMT https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/numc-value-saved-in-database-without-leading-0/m-p/380306#M9051 retired_member 2017-02-13T15:47:06Z