SY-SUBRC

[Former Member]

Hello Everybody,

I want a small favour from u all. can u please help me to know "what sy-subrc = 8" mean? I would be thankful to u all in advance for ur support and help.

Regards,

Farhee.

[Former Member]

Soni,

I think you can see that we all agree on your next setps.

Please reward points accordingly and close the thread.

Thanks!!

[Former Member]

Soni,

Based on the context (previous statement) SY-SUBRC non-zero value will be set. For every statement that is successful, its set with 0.

Regards,

Sujatha.

[Former Member]

It depends on the ABAP statement that you are using

Just go for F1 help on that field and you can get that

Say for example for SELECT statement , these are the SY-SUBRC values

SY-SUBRC = 0: The result table contains at least one record.

SY-SUBRC = 4: The result table is empty.

SY-SUBRC = 8: Applies only to SELECT SINGLE FOR UPDATE: You

did not specify all of the primary key fields

in the WHERE condition. The result table is

empty.

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Chandrasekhar Jagarlamudi

[Former Member]

It depends on what statement set it to that?

If you are getting that value, look at the statement that "set it" to a value of 8. Set your mouse cursor on that ABAP command and press F1. That will launch you into the on-line help for that command.

You will likely find a table of error values/reasons there.

[Former Member]

It depends upon where you are checking this value.

If you are checking this after select statement the SY-SUBRC = 8 means The search key was not fully qualified.

I hope it helps.

Best Regards,

Vibha

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[Former Member]

Hi..

these are few statements..that can set sy-subrc to 8..

go through help...

DESCRIBE LIST sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if row or list exists, otherwise 4 or 8.

LOAD REPORT sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if the operation was successful, otherwise 4 or 8 depending on cause.

GENERATE SUBROUTINE POOL sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if generation was successful, otherwise 8

[Former Member]

hi,

Sy-subrc can hold many values 0,4,8 etc.

For every keyword, its meaning differs.

If it is the case of Read with binary search, we get sy-subrc as 8 when there are no intries in internal table.

ex: read table itab with key vbeln = '123' binary search.

sy-subrc eq 0 <- record found in itab with vbeln 123

sy-subrc eq 4 <- record not found in itab and Itab is having some records

<b> sy-subrc eq 8 <- record not found in itab and Itab is not having any records</b>

Regards,

Sailaja.

[Former Member]

Hi,

Please check this ... it usually means.

sy-subrc = 4 -

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Failure(known reason)

sy-subrc = 8 -

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Internal error(Unknown reason).

Regards,

Ferry Lianto

[Former Member]

Hi shweta,

SY-SUBRC

Return value set by the following ABAP statements. In general, a content of 0 means that the statement was executed without problems.

Mainly sy-subrc set the value

0-->for success ful statements

4-->for unsuccess ful statements

8-->Depending on the cause

and check does not set sy-subrc.

For exceptions sy-subrc returns the exception number,In this context 8 is the exception number

The following are the different values of sy-subrc for different statements.

AUTHORITY-CHECK sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if the user has the necessary authorization, otherwise 4, 8, 12, 16, 24, 28, 32, or 36 depending on the cause.

CALL DIALOG with USING sets SY-SUBRC to 0, if processing was successful, otherwise <>0.

CALL FUNCTION sets SY-SUBRC according to the exception handling.

CALL METHOD sets SY-SUBRC according to the exception handling.

CALL SELECTION-SCREEN sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if the user chose Enter or Execute and 4 if the user chose Cancel.

CALL TRANSACTION with USING sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if processing was successful, otherwise <>0.

CATCH SYSTEM-EXCEPTIONS sets SY-SUBRC if there are runtime errors after the ENDCATCH statement. The value is specified in the program.

COMMIT WORK sets SY-SUBRC to 0.

COMMIT WORK AND WAIT sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if update was successful, otherwise <>0.

COMMUNICATION INIT DESTINATION … RETURNCODE sets SY-SUBRC as specified.

CONCATENATE sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if the result fits into target variable, otherwise 4.

CREATE OBJECT sets SY-SUBRC if the exceptions of the instance constructor are handled.

CREATE OBJECT in OLE2 sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if an external object was created, otherwise 1,2, 3 with different causes.

DELETE sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if the operation was successful, otherwise 4 or <> 0 depending on cause.

DEMAND … MESSAGES INTO sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if a message table is empty, otherwise <> 0.

DESCRIBE LIST sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if row or list exists, otherwise 4 or 8.

EXEC SQL - ENDEXEC sets SY-SUBRC to 0 in almost all cases. Only if no set was read with FETCH is SY-SUBRC 4.

FETCH sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if at least one row was read, otherwise 4.

GENERATE SUBROUTINE POOL sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if generation was successful, otherwise 8.

GET CURSOR sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if the cursor is correctly positioned, otherwise 4.

GET PARAMETER sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if value found in SAP Memory, otherwise 4.

IMPORT sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if import of data objects was successful, otherwise 4.

LOAD REPORT sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if the operation was successful, otherwise 4 or 8 depending on cause.

LOOP sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if loop over extract was passed at least once, otherwise 4.

LOOP AT sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if loop over internal table was passed at least once, otherwise 4.

MODIFY sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if operation was successful, otherwise 4.

MODIFY LINE sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if list row was changed, otherwise <> 0.

OLE2 automation, bundled commands set SY-SUBRC to 0 if all were successfully executed, otherwise 1, 2, 3, 4 depending on cause.

OPEN DATASET sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if the file was opened, otherwise 8.

Open SQL commands set SY-SUBRC to 0 if operation was successful, otherwise <>0.

OVERLAY sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if at least one character is overlayed, otherwise 4.

READ DATASET sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if the read operation was successful, otherwise 4 or 8 depending on cause.

READ LINE sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if list row exists, otherwise <> 0.

READ TABLE sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if the table row was found, otherwise 2, 4, 8 depending on cause.

REPLACE sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if search string could be replaced, otherwise <> 0.

ROLLBACK WORK always sets SY-SUBRC to 0.

SCROLL sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if scrolling in list successful, otherwise 4 or 8 depending on cause.

SEARCH sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if search string was found, otherwise 4.

SELECT sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if at least one row was read, otherwise 4 or even 8 with SELECT SINGLE FOR UPDATE.

SET COUNTRY sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if country ID was found in table T005X, otherwise 4.

SET BIT sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if bit was set, otherwise <> 0.

SET TITLEBAR sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if title exists, otherwise 4.

SHIFT … UP TO sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if position was found in character string, otherwise 4.

SPLIT sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if size of target fields is sufficient, otherwise 4.

UPDATE sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if operation successful, otherwise 4.

WRITE … TO sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if assignment successful, otherwise 4.

Reward if helpful.

Regards,

Sandhya

[Former Member]

hi

good

if your select statement wont return any value you may get the Sy-subrc value as 4 or 8,

Thanks

mrutyun^

[Former Member]

Soni,

I think you can see that we all agree on your next setps.

Please reward points accordingly and close the thread.

Thanks!!

[Former Member]

Hi,

Go the following link, your doubt will clear

http://www.sts.tu-harburg.de/teaching/sap_r3/ABAP4/select.htm

Regards,

Bhaskar