SAP NEWS-40-OTHER-40AB documentation, setup help and example usage

Further Changes in Release 4.0

1 EDITOR-CALL FOR itab : Better performance
2 DESCRIBE FIELD f INTO td
3 DATA : Fields with '+' or '()' at the end
4 ABAP types 1 and 2
5 WRITE : New formatting option NO-GROUPING
6 WRITE : Better performance for WRITE (name)...TO
7 SET RUN TIME ANALYZER : Addition MODE obsolete.
8 Arithmetic using DICTIONARY types INT1 and INT2

9 PERFORM form(prog) : Better performance for addition IF FOUND
10 Contexts


ABAP_MODIFICATION_1 Better performance of EDITOR-CALL FOR itab

The table is only returned with changes if saved in the editor. The new addition ... BACKUP INTO is used to return the table to its original state. ABAP_SUBRC is used to indicate whether change operations were performed in the editor.


ABAP_MODIFICATION_2 New variant DESCRIBE FIELD f INTO td

This new variant can be used to determine all of the attributes of a data object f .

Also, a simple DESCRIBE can be used with the addition "
HELP-ID hlp " to determine which help ID belongs to f if any.


ABAP_MODIFICATION_3 DATA: Fields ending with a '+' or '()' are no longer allowed.


ABAP_MODIFICATION_4 ABAP types 1 and 2

In Release 3.x, the ABAP types 1 and 2 were still supported in some areas in a very basic manner to retain R/2 compatibility. This is no longer the case in Release 4.0.


ABAP_MODIFICATION_5 WRITE : New formatting option NO-GROUPING

If a field of type I or type P is displayed, its thousands separator is suppressed.


ABAP_MODIFICATION_6 WRITE : Better Performance for WRITE (name) TO...

If the content of the field name is invalid, a return code is set and the target field is left unchanged.


ABAP_MODIFICATION_7 SET RUN TIME ANALYZER ON/OFF

The addition MODE is no longer used.


ABAP_MODIFICATION_8 Arithmetic using DICTIONARY types INT1
and INT2

Assignments and arithmetic using DICTIONARY types INT1 and
INT2 as target fields must remain within the following value ranges:
INT1 : 0 to 255
INT2 : -32768 to 32767.
Otherwise a runtime error is produced.


ABAP_MODIFICATION_9 PERFORM form(prog) : Better performance for addition IF FOUND

The PERFORM statement is ignored if the program specified cannot be found.


ABAP_MODIFICATION_10 Contexts

An overview of contexts is provided here .