TTYPINFO SAP (DD: nametab information on table type) Structure details
Description: DD: nametab information on table type
Structure field list including key, data, relationships and ABAP select examples
TTYPINFO 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 "DD: nametab information on table type" 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_TTYPINFO TYPE TTYPINFO.
The TTYPINFO table consists of various fields, each holding specific information or linking keys about DD: nametab information on table type data available in SAP. These include TYPENAME (Name of Dictionary Type), UUID (Global Unique ID for table), CRSTAMP (Time of nametab generation), ABSTAMP (ABAP Time Stamp).. 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 TTYPINFO 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 |
| TYPENAME | Name of Dictionary Type | TYPENAME | CHAR | 30 | OBJECTNAME | DTYP | DD_TYPES | ||
| UUID | Global Unique ID for table | UUID | RAW | 16 | UUID | ||||
| CRSTAMP | Time of nametab generation | CRSTAMP | CHAR | 14 | TIMESTMP | ||||
| ABSTAMP | ABAP Time Stamp | ABSTAMP | CHAR | 14 | TIMESTMP | ||||
| DYSTAMP | Screen time stamp | DYSTAMP | CHAR | 14 | TIMESTMP | ||||
| TABTYPE | Type of the Dictionary object | TABTYPE | CHAR | 1 | TABTYPE | ||||
| TABFORM | How the Dictionary object is implemented in the database | TABFORM | CHAR | 1 | TABFORM | ||||
| REFNAME | DD: reference to type or domain | TREFNAME | CHAR | 30 | OBJECTNAME | ||||
| UNICODELG | Unicode length with which runtime object was generated | UNICODELG | RAW | 1 | NTABSHORT | ||||
| TABLEN | Table length in bytes | TABLENGTH | RAW | 4 | DDRAW4 | ||||
| ROWKIND | Category of Dictionary Type | TYPEKIND | CHAR | 1 | TYPEKIND | ||||
| ACCESSMODE | Access modes for table types | ACCESSMODE | CHAR | 1 | ACCESSMODE | ||||
| KEYDEF | Key definition for table types | TTYPKEYDEF | CHAR | 1 | TTYPKEYDEF | ||||
| KEYKIND | Key category for table types | KEYKIND | CHAR | 1 | KEYKIND | ||||
| FIELDTYPE | ABAP data type (coded) | FLDTYPE | RAW | 1 | NTABSHORT | ||||
| ABTYPE | ABAP data type (nametab interface coded) | ABTYPE | RAW | 1 | NTABSHORT | ||||
| DTYP | Data Type in ABAP Dictionary | DATATYPE_D | CHAR | 4 | DTYPE | DATATYPE | |||
| EXID | ABAP data type (C,D,N,...) | INTTYPE | CHAR | 1 | INTTYPE | ||||
| DBLENGTH | Length of field in ABAP | DBLENGTH | RAW | 2 | NTABLONG | ||||
| DBLENGTH2 | ABAP Dictionary: Length on Database | DBLENGTH2 | RAW | 4 | DDRAW4 | ||||
| DECIMALS | Number of decimal places in the field | INTDECIM | RAW | 1 | NTABSHORT | ||||
| DIGITS | Dictionary length for DEC, CURR, QUAN types | DDINTLENG | RAW | 2 | NTABLONG | ||||
| EXLENGTH | Field output length | OUTLENGTH | RAW | 2 | NTABLONG | ||||
| CONVEXIT | Conversion Routine | CONVEXIT | CHAR | 5 | CONVEXIT | ||||
| MEMORYID | Set/Get parameter ID | MEMORYID | CHAR | 20 | Assigned to domain | MEMORYID | |||
| SIGN | Flag for sign in numerical fields | SIGNFLAG | CHAR | 1 | AS4FLAG | ||||
| LOWERCASE | Lowercase letters allowed/not allowed | LOWERCASE | CHAR | 1 | AS4FLAG | ||||
| VALEXI | Existence of fixed values | VALEXI | CHAR | 1 | AS4FLAG | ||||
| LOGFLAG | Indicator for writing change documents | LOGFLAG | CHAR | 1 | AS4FLAG | ||||
| CONVEXFLG | Indicator if a conversion exit is in use | DDCONVEXIT | CHAR | 1 | AS4FLAG | ||||
| PARAMID | Indicator if a set/get parameter ID is in use | DDMEMORYID | CHAR | 1 | AS4FLAG | ||||
| DIGITFLG | Indicator of ABAP data type P | DDDIGITS | CHAR | 1 | AS4FLAG | ||||
| SHLPEX | Search help exists | DDSHLPEX | CHAR | 1 | DDFLAG | ||||
| F4AVAILABL | F4 help exists | DDF4HELPEX | CHAR | 1 | DDFLAG | ||||
| LTRFLDDIS | Basic write direction has been defined LTR (left-to-right) | DDLTRFLDDI | CHAR | 1 | DDBOOL | ||||
| BIDICTRLC | DD: No Filtering of BIDI Formatting Characters | DDBIDICTRL | CHAR | 1 | DDBOOL | ||||
| NOHISTORY | DD: Flag for Deactivating Input History in Screen Field | DDNOHISTORY | CHAR | 1 | DDBOOL |
| Key field | Non-key field |
How do I retrieve data from SAP structure TTYPINFO using ABAP code?
As TTYPINFO 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 TTYPINFO as there is no data to select.How to access SAP table TTYPINFO
Within an ECC or HANA version of SAP you can also view further information about TTYPINFO 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