How do I TRANSFER bad transactions without truncation?

Question

Didn't think I'd get stumped on more than one topic today, but here I am again.  I've spent most of this afternoon trying to fix this, but to no avail.  Here's hoping someone can help.
I am reading through an internal table of transactions.  Anything that doesn't update correctly, I'd like to dump the entire transaction out to my dataset.  Here's what I'm doing:
    LOOP AT it_update_error INTO wa_error.
      TRANSFER wa_error TO w_dsn.
    ENDLOOP.
The first few fields in wa_error are all CHAR or NUMC and display with no problem.  But the output of wa_error is truncated at a date field (data type DATS).  I tried moving wa_error to a string, but that didn't solve my problem.  I don't want to do anything fancy, just dump the entire transaction out to the dataset.
Can someone tell me if I'm missing something here?  Thanks everyone.  As always, points given for all helpful replies!

Answer 1

OK - I see you are writing to the APP server. Try doing something like this:
OPEN DATASET dsn FOR OUTPUT.
LOOP AT itab.
  TRANSFER itab-field TO dsn.
ENDLOOP.
CLOSE DATASET dsn.
CLEAR   itab.
REFRESH itab.
OPEN DATASET dsn FOR INPUT.
DO.
  READ DATASET dsn INTO itab-field.
  IF sy-subrc = 0.
    APPEND itab.
  ELSE.
    EXIT.
  ENDIF.
ENDDO.
The final itab should have the correct results.
Rob