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WAIT UP TO

Quick Reference

Other versions: 7.31 | 7.40 | 7.54

Syntax

WAIT UP TO sec SECONDS. 

Effect

This statement interrupts the execution of the program by the number of seconds specified in sec. sec is a numerical expression position of operand type f to which positive numbers (including 0) can be passed. The unit of the number in sec is seconds and the time resolution is one millisecond. After the specified time has passed, the program continues with the statement following WAIT. When used, this statement always changes the work process.

Return Codes

This statement always sets sy-subrc to 0.

Notes

• Each time this variant of the statement WAIT is used, a database commit is triggered (except in updates). For this reason, WAIT must not be used between ABAP SQL statements that open or close a database cursor.
• The variants WAIT FOR ASYNCHRONOUS TASKS, WAIT FOR MESSAGING CHANNELS, and WAIT FOR PUSH CHANNELS of this statement are useful only when used in combination with callback routines in aRFC, AMC, or APC. The variant shown here does not wait for callback routines.
  

Example

The output of the following example should correspond to approximately one million microseconds.

GET RUN TIME FIELD DATA(t1). 

WAIT UP TO 1 SECONDS. 

GET RUN TIME FIELD DATA(t2). 

cl_demo_output=>display( |{ t2 - t1  STYLE = scientific }| ). 

Exceptions

Non-Handleable Exceptions

• Cause: Negative time specified for sec.
  Runtime error: WAIT_ILLEGAL_TIME_LIMIT