Running a program and sending its output as an e-mail

In this recipe, we will see how we can create a small program that will run another ABAP program and will send the second program's output as an e-mail attachment in PDF form. The basic steps for creating the send request and defining the recipient will remain the same as mentioned in the previous recipes. This recipe will emphasize on the additional portion required in order to run the program, capture its output, and convert the output into PDF form. The second program (program to be called) is created first and we have named it ZST_6_CALLED_PROGRAM.

How to do it...

We will now list the steps needed:

1. We will call the SUBMIT statement that will call another program zst_6_called_program (which simply prints Hello World). The EXPORTING LIST TO MEMORY AND RETURN addition is used along with the SUBMIT statement.

   

2. Next, we define an internal table based on the dictionary type abaplist. We then call the LIST_FROM_MEMORY function module and use...