SAP FUNCTIONAL POSITIONS documentation, setup help and example usage

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Functional Operand Positions
Functional operand positions are reader positions , in which suitable data objects
and functional methods or method chainings plus constructor expressions and table expressions whose return values or results have a suitable data type, can be specified. The following functional operand positions exist:

Functional Operand Positions in ABAP Objects

Operand oref of the statement

SET HANDLER ... FOR oref .

Functional Operand Positions in Relational Expressions

Operand ref of the predicate expression

... ref IS [NOT] BOUND ...

Functional operand positions in assignments:

Operand struc1 of the statement

MOVE-CORRESPONDING struc1 TO ...

Operand val of the statement

CLEAR ... WITH val

Function Operand Positions in String Processing and Byte String Processing

Character-like or byte-like arguments of the predefined functions

dbmaxlen , xstrlen

Operand itab of the statement

CONCATENATE LINES OF itab INTO ...

Operand itab of the statement

FIND ... IN TABLE itab ...

Function operand positions in statements for internal tables:

Internal table itab of the statement

READ TABLE itab ...

Work area wa of the statement

READ TABLE ... FROM wa ...

Internal table itab of the statement

LOOP AT itab ...

Internal table jtab of the statement

INSERT LINES OF jtab INTO ...

Work area wa of the statement

COLLECT wa INTO ...

Internal table jtab of the statement

APPEND LINES OF jtab TO ...

Work area wa of the statement

DELETE TABLE ... FROM wa ...

Function operand positions in statements for time stamps:

Operands time_stamp and tz of the statement

CONVERT TIME STAMP time_stamp TIME ZONE tz INTO...

Operands dat , tim , dst , and tz of the statement

CONVERT DATE dat TIME tim DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME dst INTO ... TIME ZONE tz

Functional operand positions in message processing:

Operand oref of the statement

MESSAGE oref ...

Operands dobj1 to dobj4 of the statement

MESSAGE ... WITH dobj1 ... dobj4

Function operand positions in statements for checkpoints:

Operands val1 val2 of the statement

ASSERT ... FIELDS val1 val2 ...

Operands val1 val2 ... of the statement

LOG-POINT ... FIELDS val1 val2 ...

Note
Alongside the regular functional operand positions, three extended functional operand positions exist that can be used to specify certain predefined functions. These operand positions are obsolete and should no longer be used.