retriving a a deleted abap program

[Former Member]

A Custom ABAP program was accidentally deleted a few weeks ago and the transport made it to production and all systems. Are there any options to get a copy of the program back from somewhere? anywhere?

Message was edited by: Scott Hoelscher

[Former Member]

Hi Scott,

I think the easiest way would be to restore it from a backup. Another option might be, to get it back from the version management. I am not sure if it is still available there.

regards

Siggi

[Former Member]

If you have an external Transport Tracking system, you can apply the previous transport (with the help of BASIS). Otherwise as replied, log into the backup and find the transport number. I think an UNIX expert will be able to retrieve it without a problem.

[RichHeilman]

I have heard that you can do the following, not sure if it works or not.

Go SE38, create the program with the exact name that it had before. Now go to version management and return to the last version. I don't know if this works or not, but give it a try.

Regards,

Rich Heilman

[Former Member]

Rich,

This works. I just tried it. I didn't know that this was possible. I thought deleting original will delete all the versions as well.

Thanks for sharing this tip.

Srinivas

[RichHeilman]

Cool...I thought that I had read somewhere that it did actually work. Thanks for testing it out.

Regards,

Rich Heilman

[Former Member]

Thanks Rich, Earlier today we tried exactly that and it worked. We're now back in business. I came back to submit the solution but you already did that.

SDN ROCKS!

Cheers,

Scott

[Former Member]

• Create a program with the same name as earlier (which is deleted)
• Click on "Utilities" --> "Versions" --> "Version Management"
• Select the version of your earlier program and click on display.
• Your earlier program is displayed here.

This is only possible if you have generated a version and saved the program in a package other than $TMP.