INFTABS SAP (INFORMIX: (Technical) Information for a Table) Structure details
Description: INFORMIX: (Technical) Information for a Table
Structure field list including key, data, relationships and ABAP select examples
INFTABS 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 "INFORMIX: (Technical) Information for a Table" 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_INFTABS TYPE INFTABS.
The INFTABS table consists of various fields, each holding specific information or linking keys about INFORMIX: (Technical) Information for a Table data available in SAP. These include INIT_EXT (Size of Initial Extent (KB)), NEXT_EXT (NextExtent: Size of next extent), N_EXT (INFORMIX: Number of 'extents' (for specified table)), TOTAL_SZ (INFORMIX: Size of a table (in KB)).. 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 INFTABS 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 | Informix Monitor Table Name | INFTABNAME | CHAR | 18 | CHAR18 | ||||
INIT_EXT | Size of Initial Extent (KB) | INITEXTENT | INT4 | 10 | SINT4_NOS | ||||
NEXT_EXT | NextExtent: Size of next extent | NEXT_EXT | INT4 | 10 | |||||
N_EXT | INFORMIX: Number of 'extents' (for specified table) | INFTABEXTS | INT2 | 5 | INT2 | ||||
TOTAL_SZ | INFORMIX: Size of a table (in KB) | INFTABSIZE | INT4 | 10 | INT4 | ||||
USED_SZ | INFORMIX: Size of a table (in KB) | INFTABSIZE | INT4 | 10 | INT4 | ||||
DATA_SZ | INFORMIX: Size of a table (in KB) | INFTABSIZE | INT4 | 10 | INT4 | ||||
N_ROWS | Number of Rows in Table | NROWS | INT4 | 10 | SINT4_NOS | ||||
N_COLS | INFORMIX: Number of columns for a table | INFTABCOL | INT2 | 5 | INT2 | ||||
ROW_SZ | INFORMIX: Line size of a table (in bytes) | INFROWSIZE | INT4 | 10 | INT4 | ||||
N_IND | INFORMIX: Number of indexes (for specified table) | NINDEXES | INT2 | 5 | INT2 | ||||
DBSNAME | DBSpace Name | DBSNAME | CHAR | 18 | CHAR18 | ||||
FRAG_FL | INFORMIX: Is the current table a fragment? ('sysfragments') | INFFRAGFL | CHAR | 1 | CHAR1 |
Key field | Non-key field |
How do I retrieve data from SAP structure INFTABS using ABAP code?
As INFTABS 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 INFTABS as there is no data to select.How to access SAP table INFTABS
Within an ECC or HANA version of SAP you can also view further information about INFTABS 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