Handling blank values in Database Procedure

Hello Guys,
I am building an application with HANA on ABAP. Here, I have created a database procedure which we are consuming from ABAP via database procedure proxy. In this case, we are facing issues on the below point:
As in conventional ABAP program, within the 'Where Clause' of a select statement if we pass a select-options/parameter with no value, then it will get all the data from the table. However, while passing blank value to database procedure, then it is unable to fetch the data from underlying HANA database tables/views.
In this regard, it will be really helpful, anyone could guide me on how to handle the blank value like we do in ABAP.
With Regards,
Arnab

Have a look on the discussions in this thread.
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