Practical Guide to SAP ABAP: Part1: Conceptual Design, Development, Debugging

336 Pages·2016·28.04 MB·English

by  Thomas Stutenbäumer

Thomas Stutenbäumer
Practical Guide to ABAP
Part 1: Conceptual Design, Development, Debugging
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Table of Contents
Cover
Title
Copyright / Imprint
Preface
1 Requirements and solution design
1.1 A request for practice
1.2 Considerations regarding implementation requests
1.3 Rough concept of the solution
1.4 Detailed concept of the solution
2 SAP Data Dictionary
2.1 SE11 – Entry to ABAP dictionary
2.2 Table properties
2.3 Table indexes
2.4 Foreign keys
2.5 Currency and quantity fields
2.6 Append structures
2.7 Database table ZGENERALCONTRACT
2.8 Enhancement categories of tables and structures
2.9 Views instead of select with join option
2.10 Conversion modules of domains
2.11 Table maintenance generator
2.12 Search help
2.13 Lock objects and lock modules
2.14 Database utility
2.15 Changing table contents
2.16 Who has changed the table content?
3 Proper debugging
3.1 Classical and new ABAP debugger
3.2 Start, stop, and change debugger
3.3 Breakpoint by command – First choice for troubleshooting
3.4 Watchpoints
3.5 Reverse action in debugger
3.6 Program progress in the debugger – The ABAP stack
3.7 Local and global variables
3.8 Change table contents in running programs
3.9 Special debugging
4 ABAP development
4.1 Documenting programs
4.2 Structure and readability of programs
4.3 Error handling in programs
4.4 Extended check of programs
4.5 ABAP version management
4.6 Compare source codes of different programs
4.7 Log application usage
4.8 Expensive work – Treatment of time slices
4.9 Data types TIMESTAMP and TIMESTAMPL
4.10 Field symbols and ASSIGN command
4.11 Perfect output – ALV grid control
4.12 Download and upload data
4.13 ABAP code lines in tables
4.14 Send e-mail from SAP
4.15 “Dirty assign”
4.16 Wait for update
4.17 Write change documents
4.18 Dynamic SELECT statement
4.19 Number ranges and transaction SNRO
4.20 Call transaction method and transaction SM35
5 What has been implemented at this time
A Author
B Sample programs
C Useful SAP transactions
D Useful SAP database tables
E BDC_OKCODE
F Disclaimer