Problem with DDIC length calculation in CL_SQL_METADATA_ORA

July 30, 2009 at 11:49 am

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Symptom
You are using DB connect to connect an external Oracle database with a UTF-8 character set to an SAP system. When the method GET_COLUMNS of the class CL_SQL_METADATA_ORA is called for a table of the external database, an unusable ABAP Dictionary (DDIC) length is returned for some or all of the VARCHAR2 [...]

Control Codes not filtered during input

July 12, 2009 at 2:20 am

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Symptom
When connected to a Unicode system users can input control codes when using copy&paste (e.g. sales order numbers from a MS-Word file).
Other terms
code page , UTF-8 , UTF-16
Reason and Prerequisites
A missing filtering function in the kernel.
See also package 121 in SAP note 447519.
Solution
Wait for a kernel patch:
6.40kernel?7.00kernel199librfc45RFC19sapiconv( 5 )7.01kernel34R3load( 11 )librfc10sapiconv( 2 [...]