Critical Issue with Date format in Gateway and ECC

Dear Gurus,

As my title say's its a critical issue . that is because I had already raised a SCN thread .

Now coming to the main point what is wrong here.

When I check in DDIC data dictionary for data element DATS is has 8 length. but I want to use the same data element in Gateway using manual abap editor it takes length as 16 🤯.

If anyone knows why is it happening like this..

Thanks a lot in advance.

ECC DDIC:

From SAP Gateway Service builder:

Relevant Spaces: SAP Gateway,SAP NetWeaver Administrator.

Any help would be appreciated.

Regs,

Pavan Golesar