How to set (unix) permissions when creating a file in SAP ABAP?

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wise picture wise · Nov 10, 2008 · Viewed 13.9k times · Source

you would think this would be obvious, but searching through documentation, SAP forums, Googling, etc., I've been spectacularly unsuccessful. I'm creating a file in ABAP on a solaris filesystem using the following code:

OPEN DATASET p_file FOR OUTPUT IN TEXT MODE ENCODING DEFAULT.

the resulting file is owned and grouped according to a pre-defined admin user, which is fine, but the sticky wicket is that the permissions are set to 660/rw-rw----, meaning I can't examine the results. is there a way (possibly using that vaguely defined TYPE addition?) I can specify the resulting permissions on the new file?

thanks!

Answer

tomdemuyt picture tomdemuyt · Nov 19, 2008

Go to SM69, create a logical system command, you could call it ZCHMOD.

Map that command to chmod, then call with the proper parameter (man chmod on the command line is your friend).

CALL FUNCTION 'SXPG_COMMAND_EXECUTE'
  EXPORTING
    commandname                   = 'ZCHMOD'
    additional_parameters         = l_par
    operatingsystem               = l_os
  TABLES
    exec_protocol                 = it_log
  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.

Obviously, that would be a 2 step process, but it works.

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