So I go into a discussion about the performance impact of using Shared Memory Objects. For those not familiar with the concept, it's basically an object instance that can be accessed by all users logged onto the same application server. Obviously th...
Dear community, data also have an age And age plays sometimes a role in different business processes. For example, a user is interested which purchase orders were created in the last week. You can then use the BEDAT field in the EKKO database table...
With ABAP code versioned in git, it is possible to clone ABAP projects as files to the local PC. And like other files, these can be edited with your favorite editor. To help the developer, I've been working on a standalone setup for editing ABAP fil...
Hi Here I'm trying to explain the SAP Vistex Chargeback Process in a simple words. This might not covers 100% but at least give some idea for the beginners. What is SAP Vistex Chargeback ? To understand Vistex Chargeback first we should know below...
Folks, Get your buzzword bingo cards ready as today we’re talking about DevOps! This blog was inspired by the excellent Coffee Corner podcast episode 43 “DevOps in SAP” where several prominent community members discussed how this applies specificall...
Introduction: I am going to explain, how to access locally connected printer devices and print our smart form to selected printer directly with default device settings in transaction SPAD from the Report. Please follow the below process Step 1:...
Introduction Hi! Welcome to my first SAP Community blog post. Throughout all my years with ABAP development, modifying IDocs in an easy to understand, elegant way has always been a struggle. First, the issue of making changes to the segments, second...
Sometimes I'm in a reflective mood. This time I'll try to give you an overview of what my day looks like now, and what it looked like when I started. When I first started: It was a long time ago so I may miss some of what I did during a day. Pro...
Motivation Since we are well aware of abapGit, thanks to Lars Hvam. We could see more and more open source projects being created/contributed from our ABAP community developers. The abapGit focused on supporting TADIR objects, there were several requ...
As promised here is a follow up about some Open Source Tools mentioned in the SAP Coffee Corner Meetup - Unconference Session: Speed up ABAP development with SAP Community tools. Speaking about Open Source projects in the ABAP world the starting poi...
On Friday, 18th there will be the next SAP Coffee Corner meet-up, starting at 3:00 p.m. CET. During this Zoom session there will be also a breakout room hosted by me that you can join to discuss the possibilities to speedup ABAP development - especia...
Dear community, today a topic that affects me every day: Communication effort. First of all, communication between systems isn't really meant but communication between people. Maybe you have to say that first in a community of technology experts I...
Since ABAP release 7.76, there's a new CDS entity available: the CDS projection view. This blog post explains what a CDS projection view is, what it does, and which components it consists of. Update July 2022: Since ABAP release 7.83 | SAP BT...
This Blog Post discusses about the key challenges faced by customers while adopting Agile and DevOps practices in SAP S/4HANA implementation and the integrated Continuous Testing Platform that SAP customers can use to accelerate their SAP S/4HANA imp...
The ABAP challenge dates back to February, however, solutions are still being described and discussed, so guess its time to share my solution So, tada: DATA: lv_string TYPE string, lt_words TYPE STANDARD TABLE OF string, lt_letters T...
Sometimes the column description of an ALV grid is not sufficient and one would like to have multiple lines as column header. With this trick it is possible to realize such a behaviour. Demonstration This is how it looks like deomnstrated with the co...
Introduction In this blog, I will discuss about how to convert excel data from row format to column format. Business scenario Custom table records have to be updated from the excel file. The table contains 180 columns with one primary key. Custo...
This week I had to answer the question which RFC destinations are used in the system data containers by eCATT. So I programmed a tiny report to get all target systems from TAC SECATT. Also the options and description from the RFC destination from TAC...
Today I ran through a problem with macros. I wanted to use 2 parameters in a macro but the second parameter should also be initial. DEFINE _where_cond. APPEND |&2 field&1 = var&1| TO dynamic_where. END-OF-DEFINITION. START-OF-SELECTION. _where_...
Introduction We generally use the Tcodes: SE01, SE09, SE10 for getting the transport details. The program called for all these Tcodes is RDDM0001. But, extracting the output in an excel sheet & doing some operations on them can be a difficult task so...
You know what: I have to push in an intermediate chapter (2.1), as I did enhance my CDS view. So the series as of now is: https://blogs.sap.com/2020/08/31/task-find-ddic-objects-that-miss-an-enhancement-category-part-1/ https://blogs.sap.com/2020/0...
With ABAP release 7.55, a new type of CDS view is available: in official terminology, it's called CDS view entity. And it has come to replace the "classic" CDS DDIC-based views that have been around for years.This blog post provides the following inf...
You have joined me in finding those objects - if not you can read up here: https://blogs.sap.com/2020/08/31/task-find-ddic-objects-that-miss-an-enhancement-category-part-1/ https://blogs.sap.com/2020/08/31/ddic-objects-that-miss-an-enhancement-categ...
Introduction Data is a part of important in ERP system. But, when you don’t have a specific key in the dataset, retrieving data from multiple tables is more problems, such as duplicate row. In ABAP coding, we can easily resolve it by using DELETE AD...
First part: https://blogs.sap.com/2020/08/31/task-find-ddic-objects-that-miss-an-enhancement-category-part-1/ I created a cds view doing the needed join: @AbapCatalog.sqlViewName: 'z_i_tabdevc' @AbapCatalog.compiler.compareFilter: true @AbapCatalog....
...this might be a little sloppy, I hope it is still worth reading and beneficial. If you created DDIC-objects (tables, structures, appends...) in the past, there's a chance you might have forgotten to set the enhancement category (You get a warning...
Introduction. As ABAP developer creating custom code (less than 10KLOC) for various user stories, when I started with object-oriented programming (OOP) in SAP, I had to start to solve below design problems: what the design should contain, how mu...
When the ABAP community coding challenge was first announced, the only thing that I thought was how to write in as fewer lines as possible Is it good to write like that? No, I don't think so and you all know the reason But did I have fun writin...
With the ECC system in the past, when handling logic to filter the table together, we usually used For all entries - FAE. But, when we use it, we could not be able to utilize power in open SQL (ex Built-in function, order by). Known this disadvantage...
It was a Tuesday, I recall, when the meal ticket got punched. I don't mean someone kicked the bucket, I mean I got a case. Out of the cheesy bleu, the authorities swung by my back garden, asking me to look into a different kettle of fish than I was u...
When thomas.jung started the ABAP Community Code Challenge on February 28th, I first thought: Okay, this is not a big deal for an advanced programmer. But after the first solutions came up with "made it with 5 lines", this really challenged me to do ...
Dear community, from time to time I have the need to read customizing from custom defined database tables. You probably too? Often these database tables have one or two organizational elements as primary key. For example company code and purchasing ...
Patch Day Tuesday In the field of security response, the second Tuesday of every month is usually when software vendors (Microsoft, Apple, Adobe, Google, and including SAP) announce security patches to our customers. This is a common practice in our ...
Some history Since 2012 we are able to use ABAP Development Tools aka ADT and I'm really big fan of it. You may know, that beside using ADT I've also created few plugins for Eclipse that are integrated with ADT. I can tell you it was not easy to me, ...
Introduction We have seen how image or PDF file can be retrieved from GOS attachment. But we have challenges when we try to get the data from Excel file of GOS attachment. Herein , we have a scenario where third Party vendor is sending consolidate...
Macros is a powerful tool that increase boilerplate writing speed. Unfortunately, exploitation of macros is forbidden in many projects because macros cannot be debugged. Zmacros is my development to generate a boilerplate in few clicks. Source: ht...
Hello, I've written a blog last week about an idea for a feature switch framework that I want to open source and get feedback on. In this blog I'll try to explain my initial thoughts and are hoping for your feedback. So briefly the intention is to...
Writing abap unit tests is - just like writing production code - a matter of style. We should apply all the principles for clean coding also to our unit tests. Remember, an error can occur as well in a unit test as in your production code. Remember f...
Dear community, I'm always looking for easy to understand examples of how to do certain things.That helps me with my understanding and it helps me when I want to explain it to students and trainees, for example. I recently looked at the subject of "d...
Updates: added prerequisites section Prerequisites ADT 3.12 or later SAP S/4 HANA 1909 or later SAP Cloud Platform ABAP Environment Feature overview With the latest ADT version (3.12) a feature became available that I have been wa...
Preamble and disclaimer Creating own implementation for some problem, which was already solved is before, often referred as "inventing a bicycle". I did invent a couple too This post, and maybe a couple of following posts, describe several of my o...
Being a long-time ABAPer who started up in the early 90's, regular expressions are not part of my DNA. It is some sort of monster, ugly, dangerous and mysterious. Then, I learned about the benefits of REGEX search and replace in the ABAP editor. Did...
I’m currently working as a working student at SAP and have been working on an accessibility improvement project with SAP Community teams. In this post, I want to share my experience of improving web accessibility on SAP Community pages, especially fo...
Introduction: In this Blog, we will see how to execute a Program via a Batch Job and optimize the Batch Job execution time by splitting the number of records into different sets and executed each set via Multiple Batch Jobs. The Number of records i...
Hi all, I'm currently working on a site where we have about 120.000 users on our system. This means that our changes carries very big impact and risks whenever we do anything. To minimize this I've come up with a concept of a feature switch frame...
A few weeks ago, I enjoyed going to class again (much in contrast to our youngster here, whose school is still sleeping through the pandemic :-). devX sponsored my participation in two advanced UX courses and asked for a favor in return: that I writ...
Time zone conversion is often involved in development. How do we do date conversion in CAP? In CAP we can quickly extend the time zone transformation column based on HANA SQL. For Example: We have a entity message_log: entity message_logs: cuid{ ...
I have been working as a working student at SAP and mostly worked on accessibility improvement project with SAP Community teams. In my previous post about improving web accessibility in SAP Community, I’ve showed you some best practices for web acces...
Preface This blog is being based on a system where ABAPGIT is installed. I will do some sort of screen cast in this blog. Furthermore, GITLAB is used to host the repositories. Some of the screen shots are from this system. If you use a different GIT...
Dear community, last week I welcomed the new apprentices and students to my company. That was great. It's nice to meet interested and motivated people - regardless of whether they are at the beginning, in the middle or at the end of their working lif...
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