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Data Upload from Shared Drive (not from application server)

Former Member — Thu, 22 May 2008 18:41:37 GMT

Hi,

I am trying to upload the data from a shared folder which is in a different system (NOT in SAP application server). For online if I use GUI_UPLOAD it works fine. But this FM I can't use it in background (they have the check for sy-batch). I can't use open dataset because this file is in a different server (I tried that also but no luck).

Is there a way to upload data from shared folder that too in background mode.

Any help will be appreciated...

Thanks,

Krish

Re: Data Upload from Shared Drive (not from application server)

Former Member — Thu, 22 May 2008 18:57:49 GMT

I don't see any way to load except OPEN DATASET. I do that all the time.

Re: Data Upload from Shared Drive (not from application server)

Former Member — Thu, 22 May 2008 20:11:19 GMT

You may ask your Basis to do a mount of the shared server file system to your app server (I dont know if this is possible if you have different OS), but with tools it may be possible.

Otherwise, you have to write a script to ftp the file to your App server and then you can look into app server to read the file.

Re: Data Upload from Shared Drive (not from application server)

Former Member — Thu, 22 May 2008 20:36:37 GMT

Thanks for your responses.

SAP runs in HP-Unix platform. The reason why we are going for shared drive is that file contains multi language characters and if it goes to Unix the data gets saved incorrectly (for example À gets converted as A#). As I mentioned above, if I run the program in foreground by accessing the file from shared drive, it works perfectly. The data looks good in that. But we want to automate this update through background job and there we need this help.

Thanks,

Krishnan V

Re: Data Upload from Shared Drive (not from application server)

Former Member — Thu, 22 May 2008 21:00:47 GMT

You can try to unicode enable the program and write the file to OS with encoding - you can try using UTF-8 (if you use english and European language, it will work), otherwise you can try encoding in UTF-16. If you use UTF-16, you have to handle file in Binary mode only.

Try this out, it may work from HP-UX itself.

Re: Data Upload from Shared Drive (not from application server)

Former Member — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:41:17 GMT

Hi Krishnan,

I am also having the same requirement to upload the data from a share folder ..but we are planning to ask our basis gye..to put content of the file in the application server ..can u tell me how u handled it ..If possible send me the code which u had written..ASAP.

Regards,

Bharat.

Chbarat4u81 at gmail dot com