Logical File creation in Logical path

Hi all,
I am after an info, how to create different logical file name in the same physical path.
Suppose I have physical path: X/claims/interface/outbound which is assigned to logical path LP
Now under this path I want to store some logical file say 1, 2, and 3
What would be the naming convention? & how to do it?
Any help would be highly appreciated.
Regards,
Kironmoy Banerjee.

Hi,
Use FM u2018FILE_GET_NAMEu2019 to assign the physical file name using a logical file name.
Remember you need to create u2018logical file nameu2019 using transaction u2013 FILE.
R/3 applications run on various platforms with various file systems. Hence we use platform-independent logical file names in our application programs.
Function module u2018FILE_GET_NAMEu2019 converts a logical file name to the corresponding physical file name and path for the hardware platform concerned.
For this conversion to work for different platforms, the definition of a logical file name must include a logical file path, which in turn is converted to different physical file paths, depending on the particular platform. The platform-specific file name returned by the function module is composed of the physical file path for the current platform and the physical file name associated with the logical file name. Placeholders in physical file and path names are substituted at runtime by the corresponding current values.
Example
logical file name: MONTHLY_SALES_FILE
physical file name: VALUES<PARAM_1>
logical path: SALES_DATA_PATH
physical path (UNIX): /usr/<SYSID>/<FILENAME>
physical path (Windows): C:\SALES\<FILENAME>.
Santosh
Edited by: Santhosh Nagaraj on Sep 30, 2009 2:45 PM

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