DB6CATBUFF SAP (DB6: System Catalog Information for Buffer Pools) Structure details
Description: DB6: System Catalog Information for Buffer Pools
Structure field list including key, data, relationships and ABAP select examples
DB6CATBUFF 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 "DB6: System Catalog Information for Buffer Pools" 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_DB6CATBUFF TYPE DB6CATBUFF.
The DB6CATBUFF table consists of various fields, each holding specific information or linking keys about DB6: System Catalog Information for Buffer Pools data available in SAP. These include PARTITN (DB2 Universal Database: Partition Number), NPAGES (DB2 Universal Database: Number of Buffer Pages), PAGESIZE (DB2 Universal Database: Size of Single Buffer Page), ESTORE (DB2 Universal Database: Use of Extended Storage (Y/N)).. 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: Cannot Be Enhanced
SAP DB6CATBUFF 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 |
| BP_NAME | DB6: General identifier | DB6IDENT | CHAR | 20 | |||||
| PARTITN | DB2 Universal Database: Partition Number | 0 | |||||||
| NPAGES | DB2 Universal Database: Number of Buffer Pages | 0 | |||||||
| PAGESIZE | DB2 Universal Database: Size of Single Buffer Page | 0 | |||||||
| ESTORE | DB2 Universal Database: Use of Extended Storage (Y/N) | 0 |
| Key field | Non-key field |
How do I retrieve data from SAP structure DB6CATBUFF using ABAP code?
As DB6CATBUFF 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 DB6CATBUFF as there is no data to select.How to access SAP table DB6CATBUFF
Within an ECC or HANA version of SAP you can also view further information about DB6CATBUFF 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