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Table header or admin info destroyed
Tip-No.: 247 ( INFO247 )

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Table header or admin info destroyed
Tip-No.: 247

Symptom

Error messages:
- Table header destroyed or
- Admin info for internal table destroyed

Cause

Various possibilities:

- Header was overwritten from an ABAP program: this is possible since
the header lies in the normal data area. Faulty programs can
destroy the header. Especially dangerous:
ASSIGN/PERFORM ... USING p+OFFSET(L›NGE))

- Access to table parameters of global function interfaces under the
following conditions:
- The function module to whose global interface the table belongs
is not active (that is, was not called) and
- access is made to the table outside of the function module.

Solution

In all known cases, an error exists in the application program:
- the table header must not be destroyed (with ASSIGN, ...) under any
circumstances.
- To be able to access a global table parameter, the corresponding
function module must be active. This means that you can only access
the parameters from the routines from the current function module.