ABAP/4 obsolete statements and functions.


Statements:

Obsolete Statement Since version Use instead
DATA: BEGIN OF rec.
     INCLUDE STRUCTURE subrec.
DATA: END OF rec.
3.0 DATA rec LIKE subrec.
     INCLUDE TYPE subrec. 3.0 -""-

Function Modules:

Obsolete Function Module Since version Use instead
STRING_CONCATENATE
STRING_CONCATENATE_3
3.0 CONCATENATE statement
STRING_SPLIT 3.0 SPLIT statement
STRING_LENGTH 3.0 strlen() build-in function
STRING_CENTER 3.0 WRITE ... TO ... CENTERED statement
STRING_MOVE_RIGHT 3.0 WRITE ... TO ... RIGHT-JUSTIFIED statement

Function Groups:

Obsolete Function Group Since version Use instead
GRAP* (incl. all WS_* Function Modules) 4.x SFES (GUI_* Function Modules)
SLG* (incl. all APPL_LOG_* Function Modules) 4.6 SBAL_* (BAL_* Function Modules)
* still widely used in SAP.

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