Error with OPEN DATASET Statement

Hi All,
I have a an executable program which downloads data into applcation server using OPEN DATASET statement.
Following is my code:
OPEN DATASET w_file FOR OUTPUT IN TEXT MODE ENCODING DEFAULT.
    IF sy-subrc      NE 0
     MESSAGE e111 WITH text-003.
     ENDIF.
Text 003 is 'Error Opening File'.
sy-subrc becomes non-zero if file cannot be opened for writing.
Daily I am running this program in a background job. I am getting this error on and off. Some times I am able to create the file in application server and sometimes this error comes up by cancelling the job. The message shown for the cancelled job along with text-003 is 'Job cancelled after system exception ERROR_MESSAGE'. This has no dump analysis.
Even When I run this program online I am facing the same issue.
Some users never faced this issue while others have this problem. I think it is not an authorization problem as I am able to create flat file in application server most of the times.
Can you please suggest what could have went wrong?
And kindly propse me a solution.
Thanks & Regards,
Paddu.

Hi Paddu,
I am not sure exactly but i would go as far as saying that the reason you may be having that error is because your server has a limited amount of space and that your program is not working due to that limitation.
Is that file that you have created being picked up by another application. If so then i would advise you to check the limitation of the server size.
Also, is your file name different all the time? if u r trying to write an already existing file name it will give u an error.
Edited by: Kevin Ck on Mar 9, 2009 10:19 AM

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