SAP, Europe’s largest software firm, has announced that it is to invest EUR 2.2 million in a new research center to be located in Belfast. Invest Northern Ireland has offered a Start programme package of EUR 1.3 million towards the establishment of the centre, which will focus on carrying out leading-edge research in the emerging field of grid computing. (read more).

SAP seems to sense the potential of grid technology in back office business area. Many major vendors have already jumped to early adopt grid technology. However, there is only solution in data grid. Computational grid or grid computing is very popular in scientific area but never heard in business sector. This is a good start next to SAP NetWeaver platform.

Syntax

/: SET DATE MASK = ’template’

Template    Description
DD          Day 2 digits
DDD         Short name of day
DDDD        Long name of day
MM          Month 2 digits
MMM         Short name of month
MMMM        Long name of month
YY          Year 2 digits
YYYY        Year 4 digits

Example

SAPscript

We can initial value of SELECT-OPTIONS in event INITIALIZATION.

Example

TABLES: sflight.
SELECT-OPTIONS: s_carrid FOR sflight-carrid.
INITIALIZATION.
  s_carrid-sign = ’I’.
  s_carrid-option = ’EQ’.
  s_carrid-low = ’AA’.
  APPEND s_carrid.
  s_carrid-low = ’AB’.
  APPEND s_carrid.
  s_carrid-low = ’AC’.
  APPEND s_carrid.

The output is:

 

Loop ... Into

LOOP AT itab INTO wa_tab.
  ...
  ...
  ...
  wa_tab-fld1 = ’X’.
  MODIFY itab FROM wa_tab.

ENDLOOP.

Loop ... Assigning

LOOP AT itab ASSIGNING .
  ...
  ...
  ...
-fld1 = ’X’.


ENDLOOP.

Loop ... Assigning is faster than Loop ... Into because when you modify field-symbol, system automatically update data in internal table. 

Can you imagine the combination of search engine and webmail? Yes, you can because you see . This is the new era of computing. There is no more manual classification. In fact, you don’t need to classify things in hierarchy structure like we did for the last decade in directory or folder structure anymore. This seems to be the most innovative technology that everyone uses and don’t notice any changes. For example, I don’t care what my files will be saved right now as long as I can search it through .

*** This program receive spool id and destination file name ***
DATA: it_pdf TYPE TABLE OF TLINE WITH HEADER LINE,
      gv_string TYPE string.


PARAMETERS: p_spool LIKE TSP01-RQIDENT,
            p_file LIKE RLGRAP-FILENAME.

AT SELECTION-SCREEN ON VALUE-REQUEST FOR p_file.
  CALL FUNCTION ’KD_GET_FILENAME_ON_F4’
    EXPORTING
*     PROGRAM_NAME        = SYST-REPID
*   &nb