Dynamic coding depending on SAP release

[Former Member]

Hello @ll,

I have a program in a 4.7 release where I have to use the OPEN DATASET statement with the addition ENCODING. Now this programm should be transported to a 4.6c release and I get errors because the addition ENCODING is not allowed because it's unknown.

Is it somehow possible to activate resp. deactivate the ENCODING statement depending on the release version? Is there a system field available containing the SAP release version?

Thanks for any help!

C.

[Former Member]

Use this variable.

SY-SAPRL

Thanks

Mahehs

[RichHeilman]

You will not be able to deactivate the line of source code depending on release. If you know the target release is 46c and it is coming from 4.7, you would need to have the ENCODING entension in 4.7 and transport it. Mostly likely the activation on the 46c will fail at which point you would need to open that system and manually change that line of code to not have the ENCODING extention. These are the kinds of issues that you will face when transporting between to different releasese.

Regards,

RIch Heilman

[Former Member]

Hello this is not possible, I also had a similar problem.

There is no way out than changing the coding in respective release.

Regards,

Amarjit