Dump on OPEN DATASET ; TRANSFER stmt

Question

p_name is the file name parameter
FORM APPL_TRAN.
  file = p_name.
  OPEN DATASET file FOR OUTPUT IN TEXT MODE ENCODING DEFAULT.
  IF sy-subrc = 0.
    CLEAR wa_final.
Loop through the internal table which has the ECC data and transfer it to the file.
    LOOP AT it_final  into wa_final.
      TRANSFER wa_final to file.
      CLEAR wa_final.
    ENDLOOP.
*Close the file.
    CLOSE DATASET file.
  ENDIF.
ENDFORM.                    "APPL_TRAN
I'm getting a short dump when the stmt TRANSFER is executed.
The Error Analysis is as follows:
For the statement
   "TRANSFER f TO ..."
only character-type data objects are supported at the argument position
"f".
In this case. the operand "f" has the non-character-type "TY_ECC2". The
current program is a Unicode program. In the Unicode context, the type
'X' or structures containing not only character-type components are
regarded as non-character-type.
Can someone please help me in this regard.
Thanks,
FS

Answer 1

hi,
ur internal table it_final declaration is like this
data : begin of it_final occurs 0,
          matnr(18),
          werks(4),
         end of it_final.
in this situation ur statement
OPEN DATASET file FOR OUTPUT IN TEXT MODE ENCODING DEFAULT.
works then u wont get any dump in transfer statement.
so u replace
OPEN DATASET file FOR OUTPUT IN BINARY MODE .
it works.
regards
siva