flat file of BDC

[Former Member]

Who will give flat file and where it will be

[Former Member]

Hi,

Functional people will prepare the template of the file,and end users will fill the file with data.

Thanks,

Sriram Ponna.

[ravishankar_reddy2]

Hi,

Flat file is provided by Functional people.

Functional people will create the template of the flat file(.txt/.xls/.csv. etc). End user will fill the data and execute the program whatever u did.

regards,

ravi shankar reddy

[Former Member]

where flat file locates if it locates in ur computer u can chage data given by end users so it not secure.so Please tell me about that

[Former Member]

Hi Madhu,

If you are running the program in foreground mode then we can use either a file placed in your local PC or a file placed in the application server. When you are running the program in background mode then file should be placed in application server.

Regarding the security if user is using the foreground mode the file will be located in his local computer which others can not change unless until they have access to his system.

Regards,

Yellappa.

[former_member60316]

Hi ,

The flat file is generally located at the front end (GUI) .

Its up to the integrity of the user to not tamper the file , as at the end of the day any data change made can be caught . Hence it considered no body touches the data .

If you want to make the file unable to be modified by the enduser , then its better to keep the file at the application server , which wont be accessible my many . But in that case the running of BDC needs to be done in background and the code needs to be changed accordingly.

I hope you are getting the feel of complexities which will have to carried out . So its better not to tamper the data provided .

Hope this gives you some insight into your query .

Reward if found useful .

Regards,

SureshP.

[Former Member]

can we use password protected file as flat file?and one more can we use an application server file as flat file by using open,read,close dataset

[former_member60316]

Hi,

I am not sure of the password thing as it will require some input to be provided by the way of interface .

Will have to check on this one .

And yes for accessing the files from the application server , the only way is by the means of OPEN , READ and CLOSE dataset statement .

Regards,

SureshP.

[former_member198275]

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