How to retrieve Hidden ABAP program code

[Former Member]

Hi All,

If a ABAP Source code is hidden by some special charaters or some other report.

is there any way to retrieve the same.

thanks

Alexander

[uwe_schieferstein]

Hello Alexander

You will find reports in the internet which do exactly what you describe: hiding ABAP reports.

As far as I remember these report revert the hiding if you run them with an already hidden report.

Regards

Uwe

[Former Member]

Hi Uwe,

I really dont want to hide; but I want to retrieve the code which is hidden in an report.

thanks

Alexander

[Former Member]

Hi There,

Ive studied somewhere longtime ago..that hidden reports cannot be retrieved, and you should download the report before hiding it.

[MarcinPciak]

Hi Alexander,

Check this out [hiding ABAP program|http://erpgenie.com/abaptips/content/view/223/41/]. It also allows to unhide the hidden one.

Regards

Marcin

[Former Member]

Which release are you on and what is the name of the program?

You first should find out how the code was hidden, and (possibly) why it was hidden (from you). Try to display the code from the ABAP Editor in the debugger. What is sy-subrc?

Look in the attributes of the code (and it's package / transport request => go to the development system if applicable) and find out who is the author and released the transport and did the QA checks.

Ask that person.

If it is a $tmp program, then you will need to break it open or ask SAP to do it for you.

Cheers,

Julius

[former_member189059]

Hello,

I'm guessing it was hidden using the following characters

@#@@[SAP]

There is no way that we can retrieve these programs ourselves

you cannot see it in debugging, dump analysis, read report statement, transporting the program etc

However, if you transport the program to SAP, they can unhide it, but as far as I know, they would need a very good explanation for unhiding it since they do not usually do it

[Former Member]

See my comment below.

[Former Member]

There was a way.

Google "Decompress ABAP source code from table REPOSRC".

But think twice before you do it.

Regards,

Petr