C-LANG Statements › ARCFORMAT Statement—Specify the SAP Archive Output Format

ARCFORMAT Statement—Specify the SAP Archive Output Format

The ARCFORMAT statement specifies the SAP archive output format.

Supported Job Types

This statement is optional for the following job types:

• SAP Batch Input Session
• SAP Data Archiving
• SAP R/3

Syntax

This statement has the following format:

ARCFORMAT output_format

output_format

Specifies the archive output format.

Limits: Up to 16 valid SAP characters; case-sensitive

Notes:

• Enclose values that contain delimiters (such as spaces) in double quotation marks.
• Use the ARCFORMAT statement before the first ABAPNAME statement to set the default value for subsequent steps.
• Use the ARCFORMAT statement within the boundaries of the step definition (between two ABAPNAME statements or between an ABAPNAME statement and the end of the job definition) to define the value for that step.

Example: Specify the Archive Output Format

This example specifies arcformat as the archive output format for the RSPARAM ABAP:

SAPJOBNAME SAPTEST
AGENT SAPHTAGENT
ABAPNAME RSPARAM
   ARCFORMAT arcformat
   ARCMODE ARCHIVE
   ARCDOCTYPE ARCHIVE
   ARCOBJTYPE ARCHIVE
   ARCINFO inf
   ARCCLIENT 800