SAP ABAP Data Element PACKNAM2 (Package Name)

Hierarchy

☛ SAP_BASIS (Software Component) SAP Basis Component
   ⤷ BC-DWB-TOO-PAK (Application Component) Package Tools
     ⤷ SPAK_TOOL (Package) Package Builder: Tools

Basic Data

Data Element	PACKNAM2
Short Description	Package Name

Data Type

Category of Dictionary Type	D	Domain
Type of Object Referenced		No Information
Domain / Name of Reference Type	DEVCLASS
Data Type	CHAR	Character String
Length	30
Decimal Places	0
Output Length	30
Value Table	TDEVC

Further Characteristics

Search Help: Name	PB_PACKAGE_NAME
Search Help: Parameters	DEVCLASS
Parameter ID
Default Component name
Change document	☐
No Input History	☐
Basic direction is set to LTR	☐
No BIDI Filtering	☐

Field Label

	Length	Field Label
Short	10	Package
Medium	20	Package
Long	30	Package
Heading	30	Package

Documentation

Definition

Packages are an enhancement of development classes for concepte that allow for better modularization, encapsulation, and decoupling of the SAP R/3 System.

So far, thedevelopment classes have been provided with a transport layer as simple containers for development objects. This layer defines the transport route. As an enhancement of development classes, packages are characterized by the basic properties of nesting, interfaces, and visibility as well as use accesses.

Nesting is the ability of packages to embed other packages into themselves within the package hierarchy.

The visibility describes a property of package elements. A development element can be visible outside of its package. (As a rule, it is visible within its package, but never visible in all packages embedded in this package.) A development element is then visible to the outside whenever it is within a package interfacee.

With use access, you have in a package a one-sided right to use the development elements of a package interface of another package.

Definition

History

Last changed by/on	SAP	20010130
SAP Release Created in	46D