Summary of Obsolete Key Words

The following is a list of key words which are obsolete or for which there are new, more elegant, or more readable alternatives. For this reason, you should no longer use the key words listed below:

• SUMMARY, DETAIL
  
  Use the statements FORMAT INTENSIFIED ON/OFF (FORMAT) instead or the additions INTENSIFIED ON/OFF of the WRITE statement.
  
  

• MAXIMUM, MINIMUM, SUMMING
  
  In order to improve program readability, these statements should no longer be used. Existing instances of their use should be reprogrammed.
  
  

• INPUT
  
  Use FORMAT INPUT (FORMAT) instead or the addition ... INPUT of the WRITE statement.
  
  

• MARK
  
  The line selection techniques available for list processing (such as the mouse double-click) render this statement redundant. (AT LINE-SELECTION).
  
  

• NEW-SECTION
  
  Use NEW-PAGE PRINT ON (NEW-PAGE) instead. The page count can be reset to 1 using NEW-PAGE PRINT ON with the addition NEW-SECTION.
  
  

• READ TABLE dbtab, LOOP AT dbtab, REFRESH itab FROM TABLE dbtab
  
  These statements can be replaced with variants of the more powerful SELECT statement.
  
  

• REFRESH itab FROM SELECT-OPTIONS
  
  This statement is no longer available. Use the function module RS_REFRESH_FROM_SELECTOPTIONS instead.
  
  

• REFRESH SCREEN
  
  Use the SET USER-COMMAND f statement instead.

• READ TABLE itab (without explicit key entries)

• READ TABLE itab WITH KEY k

• READ TABLE itab WITH KEY = v
  
  Use the READ variant with an explicit key declaration in the form "k1 = v1 ... kn = vn" instead.
  
  

• COLLECT SORTED BY f
  
  This statement is no longer available. Use the APPEND SORTED BY f statement.