Hierarchy
SAP_BASIS (Software Component) SAP Basis Component⤷
BC-CCM-FIL (Application Component) Platform-Independent File Names⤷
SFIL (Package) Platform-Independent File Names
Basic Data
| Data Element | FILE_ALIAS |
| Short Description | Alias for a Logical File Name |
Data Type
| Category of Dictionary Type | D | Domain |
| Type of Object Referenced | No Information | |
| Domain / Name of Reference Type | FILEINTERN | |
| Data Type | CHAR | Character String |
| Length | 60 | |
| Decimal Places | 0 | |
| Output Length | 60 | |
| Value Table | FILENAMECI |
Further Characteristics
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Field Label
| Length | Field Label | |
| Short | 10 | Alias |
| Medium | 20 | Alias Logical File |
| Long | 40 | Alias for a Logical File Name |
| Heading | 50 | Alias for a Logical File Name |
Documentation
Definition
Alias for validation of file names.
Use
Specify a logical file name which is supposed to be available as an alias during validation of file names. In the context of file name validation aliases are equivalent to the logical file name specified by the application.
Dependencies
Alias definitions are only possible on a single level. Multi-level alias definitions are not supported, i.e. such dependencies will be ignored.
Example
Application ACCESS_APPLSERVER_FILE will read a file on the application server during the program run. Access to the file is protected by validation with logical file name ACCESS_APPLSERVER_FILE_CHECK. You have a logical file name Z_FILE_CHECK which meets your requirements regarding the physical file path definition for the context of application ACCESS_APPLSERVER_FILE. Instead of copying the definitions from Z_FILE_CHECK to logical file name ACCESS_APPLSERVER_FILE_CHECK you define Z_FILE_CHECK as an alias for ACCESS_APPLSERVER_FILE_CHECK.
For a different context you defined logical file name Z_TEST as an alias for logical file name Z_FILE_CHECK. In spite of this only the logical file names Z_FILE_CHECK and ACCESS_APPLSERVER_FILE_CHECK are used for file name validation by application ACCESS_APPLSERVER_FILE_CHECK.
Further information
For additional information regarding file name validation please refer to note 1497003 (https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1497003).
History
| Last changed by/on | SAP | 20110908 |
| SAP Release Created in | 703 |
