C-LANG Statements › PRINTFORMAT Statement—Specify an Output Format for an SAP Report

PRINTFORMAT Statement—Specify an Output Format for an SAP Report

The PRINTFORMAT statement specifies an output format for an SAP report.

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:

PRINTFORMAT format

format

Specifies an 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 PRINTFORMAT statement before the first ABAPNAME statement to set the default value for subsequent steps.
• Use the PRINTFORMAT 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 Output Format

In this example, the SAP report uses the output format X_65_80 for the RSPARAM ABAP.

SAPJOBNAME SAPTEST
AGENT SAPHTAGENT
ABAPNAME RSPARAM
   PRINTDEST LP01
   PRINTFORMAT X_65_80