SAP ABAP Data Element RSSDL3 (Control File)
Hierarchy
SAP_BW (Software Component) SAP Business Warehouse
   BW-WHM-DST (Application Component) Data Staging
     RSSM (Package) BW: General monitoring and scheduling
Basic Data
Data Element RSSDL3
Short Description Control File  
Data Type
Category of Dictionary Type D   Domain
Type of Object Referenced     No Information
Domain / Name of Reference Type CHAR1    
Data Type CHAR   Character String 
Length 1    
Decimal Places 0    
Output Length 1    
Value Table      
Further Characteristics
Search Help: Name    
Search Help: Parameters    
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  
Medium  
Long  
Heading  
Documentation

Definition

A control file is a ASCII file, that contains the control statements for the scheduler.

Example

A control file is constructed as follows:

* Name of the file to be loaded

FILENAME = c:\temp\uvwxyz.abc

* Type of file to be loaded (binary, CSV or ASCII)

FILETYPE = BIN or CSV or TXT

* Where is the file situated (Application Server or Client Workstation)

LOCATION = A or C

* Field separator

FS = ;

* Escape character

ESCAPE = \

* Decimal point

DECIMALPOINT = ,

* 1000 separator

1000SEPARATOR = .

* Number of records in the file

RECCOUNT = 985

* Length of a record in the file

RECSIZE = 53

* Number of records in an IDoc packet

PACKETSIZE = 1000

* Selection date

SELDATE = 19980903

* Selection time

SELTIME = 112305

History
Last changed by/on SAP  20130604 
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