SAP ABAP Data Element RSDS_CONVEXTR (Data Has External Format)

Hierarchy

☛ SAP_BW (Software Component) SAP Business Warehouse
   ⤷ BW-WHM-DST (Application Component) Data Staging
     ⤷ RSDS (Package) Apollo DataSource

Basic Data

Data Element	RSDS_CONVEXTR
Short Description	Data Has External Format

Data Type

Category of Dictionary Type	D	Domain
Type of Object Referenced		No Information
Domain / Name of Reference Type	RS_BOOL
Data Type	CHAR	Character String
Length	1
Decimal Places	0
Output Length	1
Value Table

Further Characteristics

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Field Label

	Length	Field Label
Short	10	External
Medium	17	External Format
Long	27	Data Has External Format
Heading	27	External Format

Documentation

Definition

The data is delivered in external format. It should be converted to an internal format before being passed on to the transformation.

Use

Choose this option when you know that the data is not in internal format.

Dependencies

See also: Check for internal format

Example

The data for a date field have the format dd.mm.yyyy. It should be converted to the intenral format yyyymmdd-

History

Last changed by/on	SAP	20130604
SAP Release Created in	400