title: How to get programatically the file path from a directory parameter in abap?
body: <p>The transaction AL11 returns a mapping of "directory parameters" to file paths on the application server AFAIK.
  The trouble with transaction AL11 is that its program only calls c modules, there's almost no trace of select statements or function calls to analize there.</p>
  
  <p>I want the ability to do this dynamically, in my code, like for instance a function module that took "DATA_DIR" as input and "E:\usr\sap\IDS\DVEBMGS00\data" as output.</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/152919/get-the-contents-of-a-server-side-directory-in-sap-abap">This</a> thread is about a similar topic, but it doesn't help.</p>
  
  <p>Some other guy has the same problem, and he explains it quite well <a href="http://www.qnasap.com/al11-directory-parameter/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a>.</p>