SAP DATA CLUSTER documentation, setup help and example usage

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Data Clusters

A data cluster is a group of data objects
grouped together for the purpose of storage in a storage medium that can only be edited using ABAP statements.

The data objects are written to the storage medium by the statement EXPORT .

The data objects are extracted again by the statement IMPORT .

The statement DELETE can be used to delete any storage medium.

The statement FREE can be used to delete the ABAP Memory.

The statement IMPORT DIRECTORY generates a list of all data objects that have previously been exported to a database table.

The statements for data clusters are complemented by the subclasses of the abstract system class
CL_ABAP_EXPIMP_UTILITIES .

Note
As well as the statements described here, some obsolete accesses to data clusters also still exist.