SAP ABAP Message Class W8 Message Number 198 (Value of type & is used for defining date (type &))

Hierarchy

☛ SAP_BASIS (Software Component) SAP Basis Component
   ⤷ BC-BMT-WFM (Application Component) SAP Business Workflow
     ⤷ SWA (Package) Business Workflow: Expressions, binding

Attribute

Message class	W8
Short Description	Workflow: Expressions, data flow
Message Number	198
Documentation status
Authorization check Error Message	☐
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Message Text

Value of type & is used for defining date (type &)

Help Document

Diagnosis

You are trying to assign an element of data type to an element of data type .

System Response

In cases concerning assignments, a conversion is executed at runtime involving in , under the following rules:

• N -> D    First the conversion N -> C takes place and then C -> D.
• N -> C    The numerical field is treated like a text field,
              leading zeros are retained.
• C -> D    the text field should contain an 8-digit date in the form
              YYYYMMDD.

Procedure

You should ensure that only data type can be included when calculating difference days. The necessary type conversions (MOVE) are executed internally automatically before the arithmetic operation. For reasons of efficiency, however, only operands of the same numeric data type should occur within one arithmetic expression, if possible (up to the operands for STRLEN): in such cases, no conversion is required and special internal optimization can be carried out.

Procedure for System Administration

History

Last changed on/by	20110908	SAP
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