ABAP Syntax error in this code - Could anyone help?

Question

Hi,
I have this code which runs fine in our non-unicode SAP system.
REPORT  ECC5_OFFSETS.
DATA: W_KONV TYPE KONV.
DATA: TKOMK LIKE STANDARD TABLE OF KOMK
                 WITH KEY KEY_UC
                 INITIAL SIZE 2
                 WITH HEADER LINE.
DATA: TKOMK2 type STANDARD TABLE OF KOMK
                 WITH KEY KEY_UC
                 INITIAL SIZE 2.
* Get some test data
SELECT SINGLE * INTO W_KONV FROM  KONV
       WHERE  KNUMV  = '0000000061'.
MOVE-CORRESPONDING W_KONV TO TKOMK.
APPEND TKOMK.
tkomk2[] = TKOMK[].
* Original non-Unicode compliant code
DATA: LENGTH_KEY_TKOMK(3) TYPE P.
FIELD-SYMBOLS: <TKOMK_KEY> like TKOMK2.
DESCRIBE DISTANCE BETWEEN TKOMK-MANDT AND TKOMK-SUPOS
          INTO LENGTH_KEY_TKOMK
* ( Original Unicode syntax fix! )
          IN BYTE MODE.
* Copy all the fields between these two into TKOMK_KEY field-symbol.
* ( In Unicode this assignment fails, causing short dump at read )
ASSIGN TKOMK2(LENGTH_KEY_TKOMK) TO <TKOMK_KEY>.
* Read the current record.
READ TABLE TKOMK2 WITH KEY <TKOMK_KEY>.
But I get the following error message in our UNICODE complaint SAP system:
<b>"<TKOMK_KEY>" cannot be a table, a reference, a string, or contain any of these objects.</b>     
Does anyone know how I could get around this/suggest a solution?
Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Hi,
Sorry if I'm being unclear.
My requirements are twofold:
1)the line of code:
ASSIGN TKOMK2(LENGTH_KEY_TKOMK) TO <TKOMK_KEY>
does not assign anything to the fields symbol <TKOMK_KEY>
2)The read statement does not like the fields symbol <TKOMK_KEY> being used as a key.
Both these bits of code worked in our 4.6b system but now in the ECC5 environemtn I get syntax errors.
Let me know if you need anything else!