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You're reading from SAP ABAP Advanced Cookbook Featuring over 80 sophisticated recipes, this is a superb tutorial for ABAP developers and consultants. It teaches you advanced SAP programming using the high level language through diagrams, step-by-step instructions, and real-time examples.

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2012

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781849684880

Length 316 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

ABAP

Concepts

Data Analysis

Author (1):

Rehan Zaidi

SAP ABAP Advanced Cookbook

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Preface

1. ABAP Objects

2. Dynamic Programming FREE CHAPTER

3. ALV Tricks

4. Regular Expressions

5. Optimizing Programs

6. Doing More with Selection Screens

7. Smart Forms – Tips and Tricks

8. Working with SQL Trace

9. Code Inspector

10. Simple Transformations

11. Sending E-mail Using BCS Classes

12. Creating and Consuming Web Services

13. SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe

14. Web Dynpro for ABAP

15. Floorplan Manager

Index

In this recipe, we will see how we can carry out an SQL trace. We will run the trace on the program RIBELF00 (Display Document Flow).

We will now carry out the following steps:

In one SAP session, open the transaction that is to be traced. In our case, we have to trace the program RIBELF00. We enter on transaction SE38 the program name in the field provided, and execute the program in order to display the selection screen. We will not execute the program, yet we will enter the input values on the selection screen.
Then, open another session and call transaction ST05. The screen appears, as shown in the following screenshot:
Make sure the SQL trace checkbox is on. Click the Activate Trace button on the toolbar. Make sure that before doing this, the message in the lower part of the screen reads, All Traces are Switched Off….
Now return to the first SAP session and execute the report with the relevant input values, as shown in the following screenshot:
Once the...