PHYSICAL FILES FOR ABAP PROGRAM

[Former Member]

hi friends

i would like to know are there any physical files on os level for the ABAP programs.for example, when we create a customized report for sales in ABAP does SAP also create a corresponding copy on os level. if yes then in which file system .?

we have ECC 5.0 on AIX & use oracle 9i.

thanks in advance.

regards.

[Former Member]

Hi ,

As far as my knowledge goes .... No .

Do not compar the file system that Java , c++ uses to store the code that we write. Here this is not available.

You can tell me what do you need.

Regards,

Uma

[Former Member]

hi uma

many thanks for your prompt reply. its just that we had requirement from our management and they wanted to know where exactly ABAP programs are stored or saved. i know we can use ABAP editor se38 for display and modifications and they are stored in ABAP repository but we need to know besides SAP GUI are there any alternate path or location where ABAP programs are stored.

[Former Member]

Hi Imran ,

If your management wants these reports to be copied (might be on some event , eg at execution time , creation time , etc) , then you can write a bdc which will record the steps we do to copy the code of our report and put that in file using GUI_UPLOAD and make that file available at some predefined path(both on presentation and application server is possible). Run this BDC whenever you execute your program(call transaction(which will execute this BDC) in you program ). You can present this as a solution to them.

Regards,

Uma

[Former Member]

Hi,

on a very high level basically sap stores all the files as part of a database. So somewhere deep inside your oracle there is a part of a file which is your program.

But there is no way to just copy report.exe from one SAP system to the other like you could do with .java or those .exe windows programs.

You can use the transports or if the report is small just copy out the text and insert in a new report on the other sap system.

[Former Member]

> hi friends
> 
> i would like to know are there any physical files on os level for the ABAP programs.for example, when we create a customized report for sales in ABAP does SAP also create a corresponding copy on os level. if yes then in which file system .?
> 
> 
> we have ECC 5.0 on AIX & use oracle 9i.
> 
> thanks in advance.
> 
> regards.

The code you write in ABAP is not stored on OS-level (at least not in an ABAP-stack system) - it's contained in the database. As for the 'copies' your management wishes (for some ambigous reason) to have - there's no need. The code you write is versionised, so that every change made to the code is automatically documented when you press 'Save'.

That was answering a 'basic' question - but you have made me very curious now: would you mind to explain why you would want a 'copy' of your custom code on OS-level? Any special reason??

Edited by: Mylène Dorias on Jun 9, 2010 1:37 PM typo