Different SY-SUBRC values.

Return value set by the following ABAP statements. In general, a content of 0 means that the statement was executed without problems. ASSIGN sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if assignment to field symbol is possible, otherwise 4. ASSIGN <dref>->* sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if dereferencing is possible, otherwise 4. AUTHORITY-CHECK sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if the user has the necessary authorization, otherwise 4, 8, 12, 16, 24, 28, 32, or 36 depending on the cause. CALL DIALOG with USING sets SY-SUBRC to 0, if processing was successful, otherwise <>0. CALL FUNCTION sets SY-SUBRC according to the exception handling. CALL METHOD sets SY-SUBRC according to the exception handling. CALL SELECTION-SCREEN : sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if the user chose Enter or Execute and 4 if the user chose Cancel. CALL TRANSACTION : with USING sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if processing was successful, otherwise <>0. CATCH SYSTEM-EXCEPTIONS sets SY-SUBRC if there are runtime errors after the ENDCATCH statement. The value is specified in the program. COMMIT WORK sets SY-SUBRC to 0. COMMIT WORK AND WAIT sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if update was successful, otherwise <>0. COMMUNICATION INIT DESTINATION ... RETURNCODE sets SY-SUBRC as specified. CONCATENATE sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if the result fits into target variable, otherwise 4. CREATE OBJECT sets SY-SUBRC if the exceptions of the instance constructor are handled. CREATE OBJECT in OLE2 sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if an external object was created, otherwise 1,2, 3 with different causes. DELETE sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if the operation was successful, otherwise 4 or <> 0 depending on cause. DEMAND ... MESSAGES INTO sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if a message table is empty, otherwise <> 0. DESCRIBE LIST sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if row or list exists, otherwise 4 or 8. EXEC SQL - ENDEXEC sets SY-SUBRC to 0 in almost all cases. Only if no set was read with FETCH is SYSUBRC 4. FETCH sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if at least one row was read, otherwise 4. GENERATE SUBROUTINE POOL sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if generation was successful, otherwise 8. GET CURSOR sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if the cursor is correctly positioned, otherwise 4. GET PARAMETER sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if value found in SAP Memory, otherwise 4. IMPORT sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if import of data objects was successful, otherwise 4. IMPORT sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if import of data objects was successful, otherwise 4. LOAD REPORT sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if the operation was successful, otherwise 4 or 8 depending on cause. LOOP sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if loop over extract was passed at least once, otherwise 4. LOOP AT sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if loop over internal table was passed at least once, otherwise 4. MODIFY sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if operation was successful, otherwise 4. MODIFY LINE sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if list row was changed, otherwise <> 0. MODIFY sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if operation was successful, otherwise 4. OLE2 automation, bundled commands set SY-SUBRC to 0 if all were successfully executed, otherwise 1, 2, 3, 4 depending on cause. OPEN DATASET sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if the file was opened, otherwise 8. Open SQL commands set SY-SUBRC to 0 if operation was successful, otherwise <>0. OVERLAY sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if at least one character is overlayed, otherwise 4. READ DATASET sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if the read operation was successful, otherwise 4 or 8 depending on cause. READ LINE sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if list row exists, otherwise <> 0.

 READ TABLE sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if the table row was found, otherwise 2, 4, 8 depending on cause. REPLACE sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if search string could be replaced, otherwise <> 0. ROLLBACK WORK always sets SY-SUBRC to 0. SCROLL sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if scrolling in list successful, otherwise 4 or 8 depending on cause. SEARCH sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if search string was found, otherwise 4. SELECT sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if at least one row was read, otherwise 4 or even 8 with SELECT SINGLE FOR UPDATE. SET COUNTRY sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if country ID was found in table T005X, otherwise 4. SET BIT sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if bit was set, otherwise <> 0. SET TITLEBAR sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if title exists, otherwise 4. SHIFT ... UP TO sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if position was found in character string, otherwise 4. SPLIT sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if size of target fields is sufficient, otherwise 4. UPDATE sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if operation successful, otherwise 4. WRITE ... TO sets SY-SUBRC to 0 if assignment successful, otherwise 4.

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