What Information is
Displayed?
Definition
When you execute or maintain external commands, a list of the commands is displayed. Each line in the list contains a brief summary of the most important information about an individual command.
The first two columns contain the name of the external command and an operating system on which the external command should be executed.
Operating System Type
An external command is uniquely identified by its name and operating system. These two key fields therefore also have to be passed when an external command is executed. (No difference is made between capital and lowercase letters.)
The operating system does not have to be the same as the specific operating system. However, we recommend that you adapt the type to the ABAP runtime variable SY‑OPSYS where possible, since the default for operating system is SY‑OPSYS when an external command is executed.
You can also enter the name of the syntax group belonging to SY‑OPSYS or the name ANYOS, provided the corresponding command can be used universally.
See also: documentation for SXPG_CALL_SYSTEM.
Type
There are two different identifiers in the column Type: SAP and Customer.
External commands of the type SAP are delivered by SAP and cannot be changed in customer systems. Customers can create commands of the type Customer. These commands are not changed during release upgrades.
We recommend that you only use commands of the type Customer for in-house developments (that is, in your own ABAP sources).
Commands are automatically created with the type Customer in customer systems.
OS Command
In the fourth and fifth columns, you can see the specific operating system command and the predefined parameters with which it should be executed. These two values are not shown in their entirety in this list, but can be defined with up to 128 characters each.
See also:
Displaying Detailed Information
Profile Parameters in External Commands