C-LANG Statements › RECIPIENT Statement—Specify Recipient Name for SAP Cover Page

RECIPIENT Statement—Specify Recipient Name for SAP Cover Page

The RECIPIENT statement specifies the spool request recipient's name to appear on the SAP cover page.

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:

RECIPIENT user_name

user_name

Specifies the spool request recipient's name to appear on the SAP cover page. The value corresponds to the SAPGUI Cover sheets options, Recipient field on the Background Print Parameters dialog.

Limits: Up to 12 valid SAP characters; case-sensitive

Notes:

• Enclose values that contain delimiters (such as spaces) in double quotation marks.
• Use the RECIPIENT statement before the first ABAPNAME statement to set the default value for subsequent steps.
• Use the RECIPIENT 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 Recipient's Name to Appear on the SAP Cover Page

In this example, Recipient1 appears as the recipient's name on the SAP cover page.

SAPJOBNAME SAPTEST
AGENT SAPHTAGENT
SAPUSER J01PROD
ABAPNAME BTCTEST
   VARIANT TEST
   RECIPIENT Recipient1