EXCEL WORKBOOK ON APPLICATION SERVER IN BACKGROUND

Question

Dear Experts,
I have to download a file as excel workbook in background on application server.
I have used open / close data set using  that I am able to download .CSV and Tab Delimated file(with extension as .xls) but not excel workbook.
Regards and Thanks,
Vikas

Answer 1

Hi Vikas,
    what i understood is , u hav a excel file on presentation server (desktop)  and want to upload it to the appln server. if so do the following :
step one :  save the excel file with all the data u wanted in it.
step two : save as  the excel file  in tab delimited format.
step three : save as the tab delimited file in ansi    .txt format.
Now cg3z to upload the text file (.txt) in appln server .
open the file as below:
DATA: begin of itab,
           col1  type <>,
           col2  type <>,
          end of itab.
DATA : wa_itab   like itab.
DATA: wa(100)       TYPE c,
           xeof(1)        TYPE c.
PARAMETERS: p_file(30) TYPE c DEFAULT 'appln server path .txt' LOWER CASE
                                         OBLIGATORY,
OPEN DATASET  <p_file> FOR INPUT IN TEXT MODE
                       ENCODING DEFAULT.
  IF sy-subrc NE 0.
    WRITE  : ' error opening the file "
    EXIT.
  ELSE.
    DO.
      READ DATASET p_file INTO wa.
      IF sy-subrc NE 0.
        xeof = 'X'.
        EXIT.
      ENDIF.
      IF sy-subrc EQ 0.
        PERFORM split_data.
      ELSE.
        EXIT.
      ENDIF.
    ENDDO.
    CLOSE DATASET p_file .
FORM split_data .
  SPLIT wa AT  cl_abap_char_utilities=>horizontal_tab
                                      INTO  wa_itab-col1  wa_itab-col2  wa_itab-col3.
  APPEND wa_itab TO gi_itab.
ENDFORM.                    " SPLIT_DATA