Error while calling ABAP program from Data Services

Question

Hi All,
We have a ABAP program which accepts two parameters 1] a date 2] a string of comma separated ARTICLE numbers .
We have used a ABAB transform in ABAP dataflow which refers this ABAP program.
If I pass a string of 6 articles as second parameter the job executes successfully
But if i pass 9 articles as follows
$GV_ITEM_VALUES='3564785,1234789,1234509,1987654,1234567,2345678,3456789,4567890,5456759';
i get the following error
ABAP program syntax error: <Literals that take up more than one line are not permitted>.
The error occurs immediately after ABAP dataflow starts, ie even before the ABAP job gets submitted to ECC
I am using BODS 4.2 . The datatype of $GV_ITEM_VALUES is varchar(1000).
The ABAP program that gets generated by the DS job has the following datatype for this parameter
PARAMETER $PARAM2(1000) TYPE C
Is there a different way to pass string characters to ABAP transform in data services?
I have attached the screen shot of trace log and error
Regards,
Sharayu

Answer 1

Hi Sharayu,
The error your getting is because the  literals exceeds more than 72 characters.
It seems that the length of the string is exceeding more than 72 character.
Can you check the following in ECC GUI
Go to Transaction SE38=>Utilities=>Settings=>ABAP Editor=>Editor=> Downwards -Comp.Line  Length(72).
The checkbox which defines length 72 must be clicked so the error is coming. Can you uncheck the checkbox and then try passing the parameter $GV_ITEM_VALUES using the BODS job
Regards
Arun Sasi