Error in UCCHECK:"Could not specify the access range automatically. This means that you need a RANGE addition"

[Former Member]

Hello Experts,

We are in the process of adopting unicode compliance for custom ABAP programs for our unicode conversion project. There were around 70+ programs that needed to be adjusted as per UCCHECK, we have successfully made almost all of them unicode compliant, but there is an issue with one of the program which states that "Could not specify the access range automatically. This means that you need a RANGE addition." Also attached is the error screenshot to this post.

Below is an excerpt of our source code:

data: KEYF01(20) TYPE C,

           KEYFXX LIKE KEYF01,

           KFLN01(2)          TYPE N,

           KFLNXX         LIKE KFLN01,

           KEYF01(20)         TYPE C,

           KEYF02             LIKE KEYF01,

           KFLN01(2)          TYPE N,

           KFLN02             LIKE KFLN01.

DO 10 TIMES VARYING KEYFXX FROM KEYF01 NEXT KEYF02

              VARYING KFLNXX FROM KFLN01 NEXT KFLN02 .

Error:Could not specify the access range automatically. This means that you need a RANGE addition

In order to make it compatible with unicode environment we have to solve this error as soon as possible. Thank you in Advance!!!

[Sandra_Rossi]

This is a very old and obsolete syntax. Anyway, I find the ABAP documentation clear about what means RANGE. Unfortunately, it means that you should define your variables KEYF01, KEYF02... and KFLN01, KFLN02... inside a structure (and change it accordingly in the whole program):

data: begin of KEYFXX_STRU,

           KEYF01(20) TYPE C,

           KEYF02             LIKE KEYF01,

           ...

         end of KEYFXX_STRU,

         begin of KFLNXX_STRU,

           KFLN01(2)          TYPE N,

           KFLN02             LIKE KFLN01,

           ...

         end of KFLNXX_STRU.

DO 10 TIMES

              VARYING KEYFXX FROM KEYFXX_STRU-KEYF01 NEXT KEYFXX_STRU-KEYF02 RANGE KEYFXX_STRU

              VARYING KFLNXX FROM KFLNXX_STRU-KFLN01 NEXT KFLNXX_STRU-KFLN02 RANGE KFLNXX_STRU.

[Former Member]

Thanks for the solution Sandra, it worked.