Need to create Table Maintenance with more than 400 characters

Question

I need to create table maintenance in which one filed have more than 400 characters. CHAR type support between 1-255 & STRING type not supported by Table Maintenance. Is there any alternative type or solution for that?

Answer 1

Hi,
If  you assign TMG to the table, it will throw error as unable to display the field on screen. why because it can able to display upto 255 char length only.
For this requirement you have 2 solutions :
1) Create multiple fields and your Z table, split the data and store them as required.
2) Create a TEXT ID and store it as a long text using FM CREATE_TEXT.
or
This type of text should be treated as Long Text.
And the steps are:
1. Create Text Object Using SE75.
2. Create Text ID Using SE75.
3. Now you have to Save the text with FM SAVE_TEXT.
For example:
The Most simple solution for it can be that Divide the field REMARKS of size 1000 in multiples of 200 characters like REMARK1, REMARK2....REMARKn.
Now you can create two FMs :
zset_data: To Store 1000 char long data in Table
Here you will divide the data of Variable (type char1024) in multiples of 200 and will store in REMARK1, REMARK2.....
zget_data: To Get 1000 char long data back from Table
Here you will concatenate REMARK1, REMARK2..... and will store in Variable of Type char1024.
This is the best solution if Table is not going to be maintained by Table Maintenance Generator.
regards,
ravi