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MODIFY dbtab - VERSION
Other versions: 7.31 | 7.40 | 7.54
Syntax
MODIFY { dbtab | *dbtab } VERSION vers.
Effect
This variant of the MODIFY statement works essentially like the
short form of the Open SQL statement, but belongs, along with the VERSION addition, to the
obsolete access statements for which the name
of a database table must be specified for dbtab that begins with "T" and comprises no more than five characters.
If the VERSION addition is used, database table dbtab
is not processed; instead, the table whose name is made up of "T" and the content of vers
is processed. For vers, a data object with no more than four characters and
of type c must be specified. The content of rows will continue to be obtained
from table work area dbtab or dbtab*. The statement is not executed if the database table does not exist or does not fulfill the naming conventions given above.
Notes
-
The
VERSIONaddition is not permitted in classes. Instead, specify the database table dynamically at its operand position in Open SQL. -
None of the additions possible in Open SQL can be specified with
VERSION. -
The obsolete access statements do not support automatic
client handling. The
client identifier
of a database table must be specified explicitly. The application programs are only to work with data for the current client. In systems with
multitenancy, this is checked by the ABAP runtime environment.