DDFIELDVARS SAP (DB-Relevant Description of DD Table Fields (with Variants)) Structure details
Description: DB-Relevant Description of DD Table Fields (with Variants)
Structure field list including key, data, relationships and ABAP select examples
DDFIELDVARS 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 "DB-Relevant Description of DD Table Fields (with Variants)" 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_DDFIELDVARS TYPE DDFIELDVARS.
The DDFIELDVARS table consists of various fields, each holding specific information or linking keys about DB-Relevant Description of DD Table Fields (with Variants) data available in SAP. These include FIELDNAME (Field Name), POSITION (Position of the field in the table), KEYFLAG (Identifies a key field of a table), DATATYPE (Data Type in ABAP Dictionary).. 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 DDFIELDVARS 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 |
| FIELDNAME | Field Name | FIELDNAME | CHAR | 30 | Assigned to domain | FDNAME | DFD | ||
| POSITION | Position of the field in the table | TABFDPOS | NUMC | 4 | AS4POS | ||||
| KEYFLAG | Identifies a key field of a table | KEYFLAG | CHAR | 1 | KEYFLAG | ||||
| DATATYPE | Data Type in ABAP Dictionary | DATATYPE_D | CHAR | 4 | DTYPE | DATATYPE | |||
| LENG | Length (No. of Characters) | DDLENG | NUMC | 6 | DDLENG | ||||
| DECIMALS | Number of Decimal Places | DECIMALS | NUMC | 6 | DDLENG | ||||
| NULLABLE | Null values allowed | NULLABLE | CHAR | 1 | AS4FLAG | ||||
| DDDATATYPE | Data Type in ABAP Dictionary | DATATYPE_D | CHAR | 4 | DTYPE | DATATYPE | |||
| INTTYPE | ABAP data type (C,D,N,...) | INTTYPE | CHAR | 1 | INTTYPE | ||||
| INTLEN | Internal Length in Bytes | INTLEN | NUMC | 6 | DDLENG | ||||
| ABDECIMALS | Number of Decimal Places | DECIMALS | NUMC | 6 | DDLENG | ||||
| PROGTYPE | DD: ABAP Program Type, for example: C, N, FLTP, STRING | DDPROGTYPE | CHAR | 10 | |||||
| PROGLENG | Internal Length in Bytes | INTLEN | NUMC | 6 | DDLENG | ||||
| PROGDECIMALS | Number of Decimal Places | DECIMALS | NUMC | 6 | DDLENG | ||||
| TYPEVARIANTS | Type Variants | 0 | |||||||
| DECS_ARE_RELEVANT | 'X': Decimals are relevant | 0 |
| Key field | Non-key field |
How do I retrieve data from SAP structure DDFIELDVARS using ABAP code?
As DDFIELDVARS 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 DDFIELDVARS as there is no data to select.How to access SAP table DDFIELDVARS
Within an ECC or HANA version of SAP you can also view further information about DDFIELDVARS 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