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ABAP ADT parallel locking issue for ABAP Classes

former_member241558 — Fri, 19 Feb 2016 13:33:05 GMT

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,

I have one issue which currently stops me to working on ABAP ADT instead of SAP GUI. It becomes more and more critical for me. The issue is very simple: it’s how the ABAP ADT locks ABAP classes when you start something typing in ADT source code editor. When ADT locks the ABAP class then that ABAP class is completely locked, all its sections and parts (all methods and class definitions). It completely blocks me and my colleagues to work in one ABAP class simultaneously.

For example: using SAP GUI (SE80) I can open ABAP class and go to a particular method of this class and starts changing one, so the system only locks that class method, not the whole class and all its methods, while my colleague had been already working on another class method. If we consider this case with ABAP ADT: If my colleague is working on one of method of the class and I’m trying to change another method of the same class via ABAP ADT then ADT sends me the lock error and vice versa, if I’m working on one of the method of the class my colleague will not be able to change another method of the same class which’s more worse because I’m blocking his/her work at all.

Does anybody know if it’s possible to set-up ABAP ADT, so that it will lock a particular ABAP class section (method) instead of the whole class?

Thanks.

PS: my software stuff: ABAP ADT eclipse Version: 2.50.1 and my back-end system is AS ABAP 740 SP11.

Best regards,

Aleh

Re: ABAP ADT parallel locking issue for ABAP Classes

ThFiedler — Fri, 19 Feb 2016 13:48:57 GMT

Hi Aleh,

this editor mode is not supported in eclipse. We have ideas in mind but nothing in the current backlog.

Regards,

Thomas.

Re: ABAP ADT parallel locking issue for ABAP Classes

former_member241558 — Fri, 19 Feb 2016 13:53:48 GMT

Hi Thomas,

Thanks for a quick reply. Hope the ABAP ADT will use the similar locking mechanism as well as the SAP GUI does.

Best regards,

Aleh

Re: ABAP ADT parallel locking issue for ABAP Classes

vwegert — Fri, 19 Feb 2016 21:34:27 GMT

Aleh,

are you talking about the long-term (i. e. transport-level) locks or the short-term, concurrent-editing locks?

Best regards

Volker

Re: ABAP ADT parallel locking issue for ABAP Classes

former_member241558 — Wed, 24 Feb 2016 07:41:23 GMT

Hi Volker,

I was mentioning the short-term, when you start editing the ABAP class within source-code editor. Actually there were some issues with transport locks as well , for example: one method of the class was changed in one Workbench (WB) transport, then the task of that WB transport was released (not the whole WB transport), then I’m trying to change another method of the same class and I’ve got an error message that my previous transport locked this class, there’s no issues when I’m using SAP GUI… anyway this issue isn’t so critical for me because such a case isn’t so frequent, but locking of ABAP classes in parallel is very critical when you’re working on a quite big project with a team.

Best regards,

Aleh

Re: ABAP ADT parallel locking issue for ABAP Classes

vwegert — Thu, 25 Feb 2016 12:28:24 GMT

Aleh,

maybe it's just me, but if you really need the option of multiple people changing the same class at the same time, I'd say there's probably something wrong with the way the project is organized and the code is structured. I for one would most certainly not have someone change parts of the class I'm currently working on.

Volker

Re: ABAP ADT parallel locking issue for ABAP Classes

former_member241558 — Thu, 25 Feb 2016 12:43:51 GMT

Hi Volker,

Usually you’re right, but currently a lot of new custom development uses BOPF, and this is exactly the case when several developers could change the same class which is responsible for BO node determination/action/validation etc…

Best regards,

Aleh

Re: ABAP ADT parallel locking issue for ABAP Classes

i-ivd — Wed, 25 Sep 2019 07:26:10 GMT

While ABAP in eclipse catched up quite nicely in the recent months/years when working "alone" on a developement, this issue is still a big no-go as soon as you are working in a team of developers. There is no way of using ADT to work on ABAP classes due to the missing fine grained locking.

This is a bit sad.

Maybe this is a reason why we should all start using GIT ?

Re: ABAP ADT parallel locking issue for ABAP Classes

Tamas_Hoznek — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 02:17:25 GMT

This thread was started almost nine years ago, yet the described problem is still not resolved. I cannot believe this long time would not be sufficient for coming up with a fix for this, which is a significant impediment of ADT compared to the good old SE80 ABAP workbench that was able to do selective locking for ages.

To get around the problem, I always start editing individual objects in SE80 instead of relying on ADT. The interesting thing is that once this happens, ADT happily accepts it and I can continue changing anything via ADT that is already part of that TR. So, this means it is able to recognize that the changed object is already locked in my transport task, but for some reason it is unable to place the proper lock by itself. This is weird, but then how hard should it be to make this happen?

Re: ABAP ADT parallel locking issue for ABAP Classes

19KnarfRed81 — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 08:25:30 GMT

Hi @ThFiedler ,

is there still no way to implement this requirement in ADT? As you write, there were already ideas for this 9 years ago. It is simply totally unfortunate if the whole class is locked in a transport request, even though you only want to edit a single method. For this reason, I work with the SAP GUI again when maintaining classes that are already active. Surely it must be possible to solve this? I will try out @Tamas_Hoznek's suggestion.

Regards Frank

Re: ABAP ADT parallel locking issue for ABAP Classes

Henry_Xu1 — Mon, 26 May 2025 07:36:50 GMT

Dear ADT Experts,

I also have similar issues regarding the object lock in the long term.
For example, only method a of CLASS cl_A is saved into TR1 in SAP GUI, then if I'd like to edit cl_A's other method b, I cannot type anything and popup shows, telling me the whole class is now locked, and I cannot use ADT to edit method b until the TR1 is released.

Could you please enhance this behavior, as it may happen again if multiple fixing/developing happen on the same class, and it also make me go back to SAP GUI again.

Best regards,
Henry Xu

Re: ABAP ADT parallel locking issue for ABAP Classes

erpendergrass — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 15:58:56 GMT

This is a super helpful idea, we are finally converting over to Eclipse with ADT to make use of Github Copilot and I just ran into this today. Will test this out! Thanks!

Re: ABAP ADT parallel locking issue for ABAP Classes

MarcoK — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:52:45 GMT

This thread is marked as "solved", but it isn't. The workaround @Tamas_Hoznek mentioned works, but it is still annoying that we have to do that. @19KnarfRed81 , @erpendergrass , @i-ivd Maybe it's good idea to mention this point in the SAP ADT survey:
ADT Survey

Regards,
Marco