negative values not allowed

[Former Member]

we are trying to insert into a screen field a negative value and we get the message "negative values not allowed".

Why? its format is INT4!

can anyone help me?

thank's in advance.

regards,

Andrea

[Former Member]

Hi,

There will be one check box informing that allow positive and negative values you need to check it.

Regards,

Pavan

[Former Member]

In the attributes of field screen i did not find any check box to allow negative values.

Where is this setting?

Andrea

[Former Member]

Hello Andrea,

May be You have to check the Domain of the Data-Type

whether "Sign" is allout or not!

[Former Member]

the screen field data format is INT4.

The domain INT4 has the flag "Sign" checked.

But I still have the same problem.

What I have to do?

Andrea

[Former Member]

Hellop Andrea,

Hmmmm! That sounds pretty difficult to me.

Maybe there is a range defined in the Domain value range ?

Hope i could help You

BR

Michael

[Former Member]

no there is no value range defined in the Domain INT4.

Andrea

[Former Member]

Hi Andrea,

Sorry about the delayed response.

When i made the initial post I didnt have the system with me and was confused between domain and screen

For the screen to allow negative values, you have to add a 'V' at the end of the text

i.e. if your IO box name is IO1 type INT4 then text should be _____________V

Hope this is clear and solves ur problem.

Regards,

Pavan

[Former Member]

Pavan

thank you very much!

Finally I solve my problem.

Andrea

[Former Member]

Pavan,

thank's again for your help.

I'd ask you the following question:

I need to connect my ABAP program to an external Oracle Database running on Win NT.

My R/3 DB type is ADABAS D and running on Linux Red Hat 7.1

I have installed Oracle Client 9.2.0.4.0 on my Linux Red Hat and configured the tnsnames.ora file, also I run tnsping to check and it connect succesfully to the remote Oracle database running on Win NT.

I add an entry in table DBCON and I put my tnsname (alias) into the CON_ENV field.

In my ABAP program I use the Native SQL statement EXEC SQL. CONNECT TO 'IDENTIFIER' ENDEXEC, but I get the following runtime error:

Runtime errors DBIF_DSQL2_CONNECTERR

Exception CX_SY_NATIVE_SQL_ERROR

Error setting up a secondary database connection.

Is is impossible to connect to a database system with the identifier "identifier".

Maybe I have to set some environment variables (ex. ORACLE_BASE, ORACLE_HOME) in my ABAP program or install shared library... otherwise it can't find tnsnames.ora file?

Can you help me?

Andrea

[Former Member]

Andrea,

I donot have much exposure to ADABAS D, you might first try to create a PL/SQL block if there is something like that and execute the same piece of native SQL and see if you are getting an error or not.

I think the main problem is with syntax, because you can execute any native sql command using that.

Unfortunately I donot have access to two DBservers at the moment. If I come across something else I will let you know. But basically check the syntax by writing code directly in DB first and checking if it executes properly.

Pavan

[Former Member]

the problem occurs during the execution of the native sql statement CONNECT TO.

have you never used DBCON table to connect to an external database?

Maybe i have to configure sap system and oracle to work togheter, because the sap system is knowing only sap db (ADABAS D)!

in the con_env field of DBCON table I put the following connection string for oracle database:

dbname=GBNET user=tzta password=tzta host=192.168.0.10 port=1521

is it correct?

thank's.

Andrea

[Former Member]

If you are maintaining configuration in DBCON table then why are you firing a Native SQL command. I have not used this functionality earlier, but I dont think you will be firing a native sql command for connection atleast.

Pavan