Call Function WS_UPLOAD error

[Former Member]

hi,

need help. i called the function WS_UPLOAD from a custom report. and ran the report on both foreground and background. but i received above error messsage while running on the background. running the same program on the foreground don't yield any error messages.

thanks,

rico

[Former Member]

In the code you will find this:

IF sy-batch = 'X'.

RAISE NO_BATCH.

ENDIF.

So that's that!

[thomas_jung]

That's because WS_UPLOAD uploads a file from the Presentation Layout (The User's PC).  When something runs in the background, there is no connection to a prestionation layer. From the background you can access the file system of the application server your SAP system is running on. Often this might mean mounting a remote file directory to your SAP Server or doing a FTP on the file after it is written. Look at the help on OPEN DATASET, TRANSFER TO DATASET, and CLOSE DATASET for examples of writting to file in the background.