ABAP coding issues after BW upgrade

[Former Member]

Hello Gurus,

We recently did a BW upgrade from version 3.5 to 7.31 and even since have been encountering few strange issues with many of our ABAP coding.

For example, there is an APPEND statement in one of our Update Rules as below:

APPEND <lw_rtab_wa> TO <lt_rtab>.

Before upgrade, this was working as expected and the contents of <lw_rtab_wa> was getting transferred to <lt_rtab> without any issues.

Now after upgrade, we find that the contents of <lw_rtab_wa> is being clubbed together in the 1st few columns of <lt_rtab>.

Both the <lw_rtab_wa> & <lt_rtab> have the same fields, but the length of few fields in <lt_rtab> is bigger than that in <lw_rtab_wa>. For example DOC_NUMBER in <lw_rtab_wa> is of type C(10) while in <lt_rtab> it is C(20). This difference is causing the data of the 2nd field also to be over-writen in the DOC_NUMBER field of <lt_rtab>.

Please let us know if you have encountered similar situations after your BW upgrade. Any possible solutions to this would be very much appreciated as this is causing PROD issues at the moment!

Thanks

Arvind

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Arvind,

After Upgrade In BW 7.3 or higher versions All data elements that use the domain RSCHAVL are converted from CHAR60 to SSTRING. thats the reason you are getting that syntax error.

Take help of some ABAP programmer and try to change the syntax as suggested from below link.

Just scroll down and check the same. even though link shows for BW 7.4 issues, its applicable for 7.3 too. Please let me know

http://scn.sap.com/community/data-warehousing/bw/blog/2014/07/28/sap-bw-74-analysis-issues

Thanks

Ajay