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ABAP Keyword Documentation → ABAP Glossary →Filter Stream
A stream which is not connected directly to a data source or a data sink but to another stream instead. A filter stream is either a read stream which reads and filters the data of another read stream or it is a write stream which writes filtered data to another write stream.