Debug - Replacing constant values

[Former Member]

Anyone know if there is a way to replace a value in debug of a data item declared as a constant ?

[Former Member]

Hi Paul,

I don't think there is any way to do that.

Thats is one of the major differences between a variable and a Constant.

Regards,

Ravi

[venkata_ramisetti]

Paul,

It is not possible to change the constant value in the debugging mode. Instead you can modify the value after assigned to some other variable.

Thanks,

Ramakrishna

[Former Member]

Hi Paul,

There is no way of replacing a value assigned to a constant in debug mode.

There is a work around only for testing:

If you are debugging a Zprogram, then you can create a variable and assign the constant to a variable and use this variable wherever you want to change the value in debug mode.

Hope it helps...

Lokesh

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[Former Member]

hey Paul,

Instead of changing that constant value

U can change the value of the variable to which Ur comparing with that constant

for Ex : x = 5 is ur constant

compare the value of the variable .

[Former Member]

change the value of the variable to which U want to compare with that constant

[Former Member]

The problem is, I have a submit of another abap in the debugged program, one of the parameters for this submit is the user which is being set with a constant value. The user in the constant value, does not have appropriate authorisation to perform the task in the submitted program, so I wanted to be able to change it in debug.

SUBMIT ZBXXXXXXXX

USER C_USER <--- constant value containing user

VIA JOB P_JOBNAME

NUMBER P_JOBNUM

WITH P_KEY IN INDEXKEY

WITH P_JOB EQ P_JOBNUM

AND RETURN.

If I can't change the value of C_USER then I don't think I can easily change the user being used to call the submit without changing the program.

any suggestions ?

[Former Member]

SUBMIT ZBXXXXXXXX
USER V_USER <--- constant value containing user
VIA JOB P_JOBNAME
NUMBER P_JOBNUM
WITH P_KEY IN INDEXKEY
WITH P_JOB EQ P_JOBNUM
AND RETURN.

change it to variable that is the only option.

there is no meaning if you change the constant value.(they are final variables)

thanks

vijay

[Former Member]

Hi,

May be u can debug the program that submits the user value to your program.

If the user value is not constant there, then u can change the user value there in debug mode and this value should get submitted later on to the next program.

Thanks

Rashmi