process overview ?

[Former Member]

what is a process overview ? what is the purpose of it ?

what is SM50 ?

[Former Member]

Hi Akash,

To display a snapshot of the current activities on the instance you are logged on to, use the Work Process Monitor. Call transaction SM50, or, from the R/3 initial screen, choose Tools >> Administration >> Monitor >> System monitoring >> Process overview.

The information displayed includes:

- Type of work process

- Name of the ABAP program running

- Operating system PID number

- Client being used

- Name of the job executing

- Current action

- Number of detected errors in the work process

- Table being utilized

- Semaphore resource being used

- CPU accumulation

- Time in process accumulation

- User holding the resource

If all work processes are being blocked by long running transactions, the above information is also available on operating system level by using program dpmon.

In an R/3 System with more than one instance, you can access a global work process overview using transaction SM66.

Hope this will help you.

Thanks&Regards,

Siri.

[Former Member]

SM50 transaction is accessbile to ABAPer ?

[ferry_lianto]

Hi,

You can quickly investigate the potential cause of a system performance problem by checking the work process load. You can use the global work process overview to:

- Monitor the work process load on all active instances across the system

- Identify locks in the database (lock waits).

Using the Global Work Process Overview screen, you can see at a glance:

- The status of each application server

- The reason why it is not running

- Whether it has been restarted

- The CPU and request run time

- The user who has logged on and the client that they logged on to

- The report that is running

Regards,

Ferry Lianto

[ferry_lianto]

Hi,

I do have access to SM50 transaction but some company may not allow ABAPer to access and need to go to BASIS team for any SM50 request.

Regards,

Ferry Lianto