DSEC SAP (Table fields) Structure details
Description: Table fields
Structure field list including key, data, relationships and ABAP select examples
DSEC 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 "Table fields" 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_DSEC TYPE DSEC.
The DSEC table consists of various fields, each holding specific information or linking keys about Table fields data available in SAP. These include FIELDNAME (Field Name), KEYFLAG (Identifies a key field of a table), DATATYPE (Data Type in ABAP Dictionary), LENG (Length (No. of Characters)).. 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: Can be enhanced (character-type)
SAP DSEC 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 |
| TABNAME | Table Name | TABNAME | CHAR | 30 | Assigned to domain | AS4TAB | DTB | ||
| FIELDNAME | Field Name | FIELDNAME | CHAR | 30 | Assigned to domain | FDNAME | DFD | ||
| 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 | ||||
| SIGNFLAG | Flag for sign in numerical fields | SIGNFLAG | CHAR | 1 | AS4FLAG | ||||
| SCRTEXT_S | Short Field Label | SCRTEXT_S | CHAR | 10 | SCRTEXT_S | ||||
| POSITION | Position of the field in the table | TABFDPOS | NUMC | 4 | AS4POS | ||||
| INTTYPE | ABAP data type (C,D,N,...) | INTTYPE | CHAR | 1 | INTTYPE | ||||
| INTLEN | Internal Length in Bytes | INTLEN | NUMC | 6 | DDLENG | ||||
| DOMNAME | Domain name | DOMNAME | CHAR | 30 | Assigned to domain | DOMNAME | DD_DOMA | ||
| OUTPUTLEN | Output Length | OUTPUTLEN | NUMC | 6 | DDLENG | ||||
| MASKLEN | Template length (not used) | MASKLEN | NUMC | 4 | MASKLEN | ||||
| MASK | Template (not used) | AS4MASK | CHAR | 20 | AS4MASK | ||||
| DDTEXT | Short Description of Repository Objects | AS4TEXT | CHAR | 60 | AS4TEXT | ||||
| SCRTEXT_M | Medium Field Label | SCRTEXT_M | CHAR | 20 | SCRTEXT_M | ||||
| SCRTEXT_L | Long Field Label | SCRTEXT_L | CHAR | 40 | SCRTEXT_L |
| Key field | Non-key field |
How do I retrieve data from SAP structure DSEC using ABAP code?
As DSEC 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 DSEC as there is no data to select.How to access SAP table DSEC
Within an ECC or HANA version of SAP you can also view further information about DSEC 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