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Functional Operand Positions

Functional operand positions are reading positions in which suitable data objects and functional method calls or method chainings plus constructor expressions and table expressions whose return values or results have a suitable data type, can be specified. The following functional operand positions exist:

• Functional operand positions in ABAP Objects

• Operand oref of the statement
  SET HANDLER ... FOR oref.

• Functional operand positions in relational expressions

• Operand ref of the predicate expression
  ... ref IS [NOT] BOUND ...

• Functional operand positions in assignments

• Operand struc1 of the statement
  MOVE-CORRESPONDING struc1 TO ...

• Operand val of the statement
  CLEAR ... WITH val

• Function Operand Positions in String Processing and Byte String Processing

• Character-like or byte-like arguments of the built-in functions
  dbmaxlen, xstrlen

• Operand itab of the statement
  CONCATENATE LINES OF itab INTO ...

• Operand itab of the statement
  FIND ... IN TABLE itab ...

• Function operand positions in statements for internal tables

• Internal table itab of the statement
  READ TABLE itab ...

• Work area wa of the statement
  READ TABLE ... FROM wa ...

• Internal table itab of the statement
  LOOP AT itab ...

• Internal table jtab of the statement
  INSERT LINES OF jtab INTO ...

• Work area wa of the statement
  COLLECT wa INTO ...

• Internal table jtab of the statement
  APPEND LINES OF jtab TO ...

• Work area wa of the statement
  DELETE TABLE ... FROM wa ...

• Function operand positions in statements for time stamps

• Operand tz of the statement
  CONVERT UTCLONG time_stamp TIME ZONE tz INTO...

• Operands dat, tim, dst, and tz of the statement
  CONVERT DATE dat TIME tim DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME dst INTO UTCLONG ... TIME ZONE tz

• Operands time_stamp and tz of the statement
  CONVERT TIME STAMP time_stamp TIME ZONE tz INTO ...

• Operands dat, tim, dst, and tz of the statement
  CONVERT DATE dat TIME tim DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME dst INTO TIME STAMP ... TIME ZONE tz

• Functional operand positions in message processing

• Operand oref of the statement
  MESSAGE oref ...

• Operands dobj1 to dobj4 of the statement
  MESSAGE ...WITH dobj1 ... dobj4

• Function operand positions in statements for checkpoints

• Operands val1 val2 of the statement
  ASSERT ... FIELDS val1 val2 ...

• Operands val1 val2 ... of the statement
  LOG-POINT ... FIELDS val1 val2 ...

Other versions: 7.31 | 7.40 | 7.54

Notes

• Alongside the regular functional operand positions, three extended functional operand positions exist that can be used to specify certain built-in functions. These operand positions are obsolete and should no longer be used.

• Special functional operand positions are all places in which a relational expression can be specified. A single functional method call can be specified as a predicative method call here. Other expressions (with the exception of predicate functions or single data objects (with the exception of an obsolete short form)), on the other hand, cannot be specified as predicates of a relational expression.

• In any expressions in string templates embedded in the formatting options, (dobj) and expr for fixed values (if specified) represent a summary functional operand position.

Example

Calls a functional method cl_abap_tstmp=>normalize in a functional operand position.

DATA ts TYPE timestamp. 
... 
CONVERT TIME STAMP cl_abap_tstmp=>normalize( ts ) TIME ZONE 'UTC' 
        INTO DATE DATA(date) TIME DATA(time).