Package Size in ABAP

27/08/2013

BOSE Corporation Vidhi Jogeshwar SAP ABAP

vidhi.jogeshwar@tcs.com

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Table of Content 1. 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 2. Package size in SAP ABAP .................................................................................................. 4 Requirement:................................................................................................................... 4 Input: ............................................................................................................................... 4 Output: ............................................................................................................................ 4 Solution: .......................................................................................................................... 4 How to use package size: .................................................................................................... 4

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Package size in SAP ABAP

If the Business requirement is to work with heavy tables like BKPF and BSEG to fetch Billions of data records, then there comes the limitation of storing the data into internal table. Consider the below case:

1.1 Requirement:
Once in my project I got the requirement to create the monthly gross sales report for each state.

1.2 Input:
Input being G/L account, company code, fiscal year, fiscal period and posting date.

1.3 Output:
The output will be the file created on application server contains G/L Account, State, Fiscal Year, Fiscal Month and Taxable sales, Exempt Sales, Returns and Gross Sales.

1.4 Solution:
In the above case, either the data needs to be fetched from primary table BKPF based on fiscal year or based on posting dates. In both the cases for single company code and single fiscal year number of records in BKPF are more than 1Billion. In this case if I use common select statement I only end up with short dump stating problem with internal table storage. In order to avoid it and complete the requirement I used package size as a tool to get my work done.

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How to use package size:

It works like Select and End Select loop. So, say if I give package size as 50000 then data will be selected in the chunks of 50000 during every select. No need to worry about the data part all data will be processed properly. When select is executed subsequent times it picks new set of data. Considering the above example, check following steps to use package size: Check if the fiscal year of posting date is not initial; and then only go for data selection. Format for the select query with package size is Select <*/ field1 field2.. fieldn> From <table name> BKPF PACKAGE SIZE <P variable/constant integer type> Into table <Internal Table Name> Where <Selection parameters>.

Do data processing Then use ENDSELECT statement.

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