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 0   
Medium 0   
Long 0   
Heading 0   
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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