Open dataset with packed fields in a file - Unicode

[Former Member]

Hi

I am working on a upgrade project 4.7 to ECC6. There are programs importing files with packed fields. How do you manage open files with fields of type p. I read an SAP Note 65050 on this and they say - Don't go this route. The problem is we inherited this and are trying to solve it. Any tried and tested solutions?

Regards

Marius

[Former Member]

Hi

I am working on a upgrade project 4.7 to ECC6. There are programs importing files with packed fields. How do you manage open files with fields of type p. I read an SAP Note 65050 on this and they say - Don't go this route. The problem is we inherited this and are trying to solve it. Any tried and tested solutions?

Regards

Marius

[hendrik_brandes]

Hello Marius,

try to convert your input file into unicode using the class CL_ABAP_CONV_IN_CE.

In my case, I had to read codepage ISO-8859-1 into utf-8. Within 7.30 there is another class CL_ABAP_CODEPAGE, which helps you, to perform those operations.

I would suggest, to read the values first, convert the string into the internal format and then convert it into my final destination structure.

Kind regards,

Hendrik

[nils_buerckel]

Hi Marius,

in an upload of a file into a Unicode system you need to change the fields of type "packed" to fields of type "char" or "numchar".

Please also have a look at: http://scn.sap.com/thread/832616

Best regards,

Nils Buerckel

[Former Member]

Hi All

I manged to open the dataset with the following - It can be helpful to other members.

open dataset

fli for input in legacy text mode ignoring conversion errors

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