EWICOL SAP (Info Modules: Column Description) Structure details
Description: Info Modules: Column Description
Structure field list including key, data, relationships and ABAP select examples
EWICOL 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 "Info Modules: Column Description" 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_EWICOL TYPE EWICOL.
The EWICOL table consists of various fields, each holding specific information or linking keys about Info Modules: Column Description data available in SAP. These include LENGTH (Info modules: column width), REFTAB (Table Name), REFFIELD (Field Name), AUTOSHIFT (Info-Module: Automatic amount fields optimization).. 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 or numeric)
SAP EWICOL 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 |
| HEADERTEXT | Info modules: field value | EWI_VALUE | CHAR | 32 | TEXT32 | ||||
| LENGTH | Info modules: column width | EWI_LENGTH | INT1 | 3 | ICONLENGTH | ||||
| REFTAB | Table Name | TABNAME | CHAR | 30 | Assigned to domain | AS4TAB | DTB | ||
| REFFIELD | Field Name | FIELDNAME | CHAR | 30 | Assigned to domain | FDNAME | DFD | ||
| AUTOSHIFT | Info-Module: Automatic amount fields optimization | AUTOSHIFT_KK | CHAR | 1 | BOOLE | ||||
| AUTOLEN | Info-Module: Automatic column length amendment | AUTOLEN_KK | CHAR | 1 | BOOLE |
| Key field | Non-key field |
How do I retrieve data from SAP structure EWICOL using ABAP code?
As EWICOL 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 EWICOL as there is no data to select.How to access SAP table EWICOL
Within an ECC or HANA version of SAP you can also view further information about EWICOL 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