CATS_PERIN SAP (CATS: Personnel Number and Derived Information) Structure details
Description: CATS: Personnel Number and Derived Information
Structure field list including key, data, relationships and ABAP select examples
CATS_PERIN is a standard SAP Structure so does not store data like a database table does. It can be used to define the fields of other actual tables or to process "CATS: Personnel Number and Derived Information" Information within sap ABAP programs.
This is done by declaring abap internal tables, work areas or database tables based on this Structure. These can then be used to store and process the required data appropriately.
i.e. DATA: wa_CATS_PERIN TYPE CATS_PERIN.
The CATS_PERIN table consists of various fields, each holding specific information or linking keys about CATS: Personnel Number and Derived Information data available in SAP. These include ENAME (Formatted Name of Employee or Applicant), NACHN (Last Name), VORNA (First Name), RUFNM (Nickname).. See below for full list along with technical details, documentation, text table, check tables, foreign key relationships, conversion routines, relevant tcodes and example ABAP select code etc. .
Delivery Class:Display/Maintenance via tcode SM30: Display/Maintenance Allowed but with Restrictions
SAP enhancement categories: Not classified
SAP CATS_PERIN structure fields - Full list of fields found in SAP data dictionary
| Field | Description | Data Element | Data Type | length (Dec) | Check table | Conversion Routine | Domain Name | MemoryID | SHLP |
| PERNR | Personnel Number | PERNR_D | NUMC | 8 | PERNR | PER | |||
| ENAME | Formatted Name of Employee or Applicant | EMNAM | CHAR | 40 | TEXT40 | ||||
| NACHN | Last Name | NACHN | CHAR | 25 | NACHN | ||||
| VORNA | First Name | VORNA | CHAR | 25 | VORNM | ||||
| RUFNM | Nickname | RUFNM | CHAR | 25 | VORNM | ||||
| BUKRS | Company Code | BUKRS | CHAR | 4 | Assigned to domain | BUKRS | BUK | C_T001 | |
| KOKRS | Controlling Area | KOKRS | CHAR | 4 | Assigned to domain | CACCD | CAC | ||
| KOSTL | Cost Center | KOSTL | CHAR | 10 | Assigned to domain | ALPHA | KOSTL | KOS | |
| WERKS | Personnel Area | PERSA | CHAR | 4 | Assigned to domain | PERSA | PBR | ||
| BTRTL | Personnel Subarea | BTRTL | CHAR | 4 | Assigned to domain | BTRTL | PBS | ||
| PERSG | Employee Group | PERSG | CHAR | 1 | Assigned to domain | PERSG | PRG | ||
| PERSK | Employee Subgroup | PERSK | CHAR | 2 | Assigned to domain | PERSK | PKR |
| Key field | Non-key field |
How do I retrieve data from SAP structure CATS_PERIN using ABAP code?
As CATS_PERIN is a database structure and not a table it does not store any data in the SAP data dictionary. The ABAP SELECT statement is therefore not appropriate and can not be performed on CATS_PERIN as there is no data to select.How to access SAP table CATS_PERIN
Within an ECC or HANA version of SAP you can also view further information about CATS_PERIN and the data within it using relevant transactions such asSE11 (ABAP Dictionary Maintenance)
SM30 (Maintain Table Data)
SE80 (Object Navigator)
SE16 (Data Browser).
Search for further information about these or an SAP related objects