What are datasets? What are the different syntaxes?
By admin on Mar 26, 2007 in SAP-ABAP Interview Questions
The sequential files (ON APPLICATION SERVER) are called datasets. They are used for file handling in SAP.
OPEN DATASET [DATASET NAME]
FOR [OUTPUT / INPUT / APPENDING]
IN [BINARY / TEXT] MODE
AT POSITION [POSITION]
MESSAGE [FIELD]
READ DATASET [DATASET NAME] INTO [FIELD]
DELETE DATASET [DATASET NAME]
CLOSE DATASET [DATASET NAME]
TRANSFER [FIELD] TO [DATASET NAME]


