As it commonly known, it is not recommended by SAP to use 255+ character fields in transparent tables. One should use several 255 fields instead, wrap text in LCHR, LRAW or STRING, or use SO10 text etc.
However, while maintaining legacy (and ugly) developments, such problem often arises: how to view what is stored in char500
or char1000
field in database?
The real life scenario:
- we have a development where some structure written and read from
char1000
field in transparent table - we know field structure and parsing the field through
CL_ABAP_CONTAINER_UTILITIES=>FILL_CONTAINER_C
orSO_STRUCT_TO_CHAR
goes fine, all fields are put wonderfully - displaying the fields via SE11/SE16/SE16n gives nothing as the field is truncated to 255, and to 132 in debugger, AFAIR.
Is there any standard tool, transaction or FM we can use to display such long field?