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Restrictions for Secondary Keys

Internal tables with secondary keys can be used in all processing statements for internal tables and other statements that work with internal tables. However, there are also operand positions for internal tables for which it does not make sense to use secondary keys. Secondary keys are therefore not supported for those operand positions.

The use of tables with secondary keys causes syntax or runtime errors for the following operand positions: