topic Re: Unable to run a program without saving/activating. in Application Development and Automation Discussions

Unable to run a program without saving/activating.

Former Member — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 06:53:47 GMT

Hi,

I am working on a big ALV report and I am facing a problem that the system is not allowing me to run my program unless I save it and then activate it....(Directly activating should save automatically, even that is not happening at times.)

The following is the details of the error that I am getting:

No name free for internal report copy. Save the report first

Message no. ED815

Diagnosis

You want the editor to execute a program which has not yet been saved.

To do this, it creates an internal copy of the contents of the editor as

a program under a name which is made up from the program name by

overwriting the first character with '!' and possibly the second

character with a number.

All names in this name range have, however, already been filled.

Procedure

1. Please save the contents of the editor before you execute it.

2. Please check whether all reports in the name range '!......' are

still needed.

What I understand from the message above is that all the internal temporary names (the ones with !) within the program range of my program name are exhausted as I have been running it unactivated/unsaved since quite some time and frequently as well. Please note that this problem is NOT coming up with other programs with different name.

Please let me know if my deduction is correct, and if it is, then how can I delete the internal named copies of my programs which are not required, which were previously saved so that I can execute without saving.

In case I am wrong please advice about a way out of this problem.

Thanks and regards,

Nikhil Sharma

Re: Unable to run a program without saving/activating.

Former Member — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 07:05:29 GMT

Hello Nikhil,

It's been a long time since I got this error. But I think your understanding of the problem is correct.

1. Did you not get the prompt where the system gives you three options - Get Temporary Version , Get from Database and keep the temporary version, Get from database and delete the temporary version. If yes, then what did you choose ? You'll generally get this prompt when you execute a program that gives you a short dump.

2. Whay are you trying to execute the program without activating it? Any speaical reason? When you execute a program, all the other objects referenced in the program (tables , FMs, external subroutines etc.,) must be active. Otherwise you'll get erroneous results.

3. Did you try activating your program at least now? I think that should delete those temporary copies of the program. Just try that and let me know what happens.

Regards,

Anand Mandalika.

Re: Unable to run a program without saving/activating.

Former Member — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 07:10:01 GMT

First save your work with a different proram name or save in a text file .

Log off and log On . You will be able to now save your original program name. Copy from the new name you just created or from text file . Text elements will however be lost.

Cheers

Re: Unable to run a program without saving/activating.

Former Member — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 07:22:46 GMT

Hi Anand,

1. Thanks for the reply. Yes, I am getting the prompt that you mentioned in point 1, but that is only when I try activating my program (after the message mentioned in my first post) without saving it (as it should automatically save before activating). I choose 'Get Temporary Version', because if I choose any other option, the changes that I made before I try to activate it are discarded.

2. I am trying to execute the program without activating it, to check intermediate effects of my changed code on output. I need to do the same frequently and since the throughput of the AS is not well since a few days at my end, the procedure of activating takes quite some time.

3. I am running my program after activating it so far as there was no other way out, ever since I started facing this problem. Though even this is not deleting those temporary files and I get the same prompts at next execution try after some changes. Is there a way to explicitly delete those temporary files?

Regards,

Nikhil Sharma

Re: Unable to run a program without saving/activating.

Former Member — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 07:29:19 GMT

Hi Sanjay,

Yes, I guess that can also do the trick as the name of the new ABAP would be different. Though, the text element loss does not sound good. Is there not another way to explicitly delete those temporary files that are causing this?

Thanks for your time,

Nikhil