Max Titov IV @ TechSplice

ABAP: execute OS level command

There are many things that one can do to execute a command in an Operating System from an ABAP report.  I’ll explain one method that one can take to accomplish this.

1. Using transactions SM49 and SM69 set up and test a new OS command that you wish to execute.  For the purposes of this post I’ve set up an executable command ZSAPCAR32.
2. When I was setting up the new command I’ve selected the option to add additional parameters to the command.
3. Once tested and satisfied you can add a new function module [SXPG_COMMAND_EXECUTE] to your report that will call preset executable command.

data: g_rlog                TYPE btcxpm OCCURS 0.

CALL FUNCTION 'SXPG_COMMAND_EXECUTE'
       EXPORTING
            commandname                   = 'ZSAPCAR32'
            additional_parameters         = <additional parameters>
            operatingsystem               = <system you specified in SM69>
       TABLES
            exec_protocol                 = g_rlog
       EXCEPTIONS
            no_permission                 = 1
            command_not_found             = 2
            parameters_too_long           = 3
            security_risk                 = 4
            wrong_check_call_interface    = 5
            program_start_error           = 6
            program_termination_error     = 7
            x_error                       = 8
            parameter_expected            = 9
            too_many_parameters           = 10
            illegal_command               = 11
            wrong_asynchronous_parameters = 12
            cant_enq_tbtco_entry          = 13
            jobcount_generation_error     = 14
            OTHERS                        = 15.

if sy-subrc eq 0.
    LOOP AT g_rlog INTO g_warlog.
*     display command output
      write g_warlog.
    ENDLOOP.
endif.

The above code will execute your OS command and display the results.

Tags: function, programmer, sap, SAP/ABAP

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