E3SEGMH SAP (CA-EDI: Header data for segment transmission) Structure details
Description: CA-EDI: Header data for segment transmission
Structure field list including key, data, relationships and ABAP select examples
E3SEGMH 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 "CA-EDI: Header data for segment transmission" 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_E3SEGMH TYPE E3SEGMH.
The E3SEGMH table consists of various fields, each holding specific information or linking keys about CA-EDI: Header data for segment transmission data available in SAP. These include SEGMENTDEF (IDoc Development : Segment definition), SEGLEN (Length of Field (Number of Characters)), PARSEG (Segment type in 30-character format), PARPNO (Sequential number of parent segment).. 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 E3SEGMH 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 |
SEGMENTTYP | Segment type in 30-character format | EDIHSEGTYP | CHAR | 30 | CHAR30 | ||||
SEGMENTDEF | IDoc Development : Segment definition | EDISEGDEF | CHAR | 30 | EDISEGDEF | ||||
SEGLEN | Length of Field (Number of Characters) | DDLEN | NUMC | 4 | DDLEN | ||||
PARSEG | Segment type in 30-character format | EDIHSEGTYP | CHAR | 30 | CHAR30 | ||||
PARPNO | Sequential number of parent segment | PARPNO | NUMC | 4 | NUM4 | ||||
PARFLG | Flag for parent segment: Segment is start of segment group | PARFLG | CHAR | 1 | XFELD | ||||
MUSTFL | Flag: Mandatory entry | MUSTFL | CHAR | 1 | XFELD | ||||
OCCMIN | Minimum number of segments in sequence | OCCMIN | NUMC | 10 | NUM10 | ||||
OCCMAX | Maximum number of segments in sequence | OCCMAX | NUMC | 10 | NUM10 | ||||
HLEVEL | Hierarchy level of IDoc type segment | HLEVEL | NUMC | 2 | EDI_HLEVEL | ||||
DESCRP | Short description of object | EDI_TEXT60 | CHAR | 60 | TEXT60 | ||||
GRP_MUSTFL | Flag for groups: Mandatory | EDI_GMUSTF | CHAR | 1 | XFELD | ||||
GRP_OCCMIN | Minimum number of groups in sequence | EDI_GOCCMI | NUMC | 10 | NUM10 | ||||
GRP_OCCMAX | Maximum number of groups in sequence | EDI_GOCCMA | NUMC | 10 | NUM10 | ||||
REFSEGTYP | Segment type in 30-character format | EDIHSEGTYP | CHAR | 30 | CHAR30 |
Key field | Non-key field |
How do I retrieve data from SAP structure E3SEGMH using ABAP code?
As E3SEGMH 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 E3SEGMH as there is no data to select.How to access SAP table E3SEGMH
Within an ECC or HANA version of SAP you can also view further information about E3SEGMH 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