short dump

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what is short dump. And what is the tcode for the short dump.

[Former Member]

it is the error message generated by the run time of a program.

the t-code is st22

santhosh

Message was edited by: Kaluvala Santhosh

[Former Member]

ST22

it is an exception(error) in program processing that is not handled

[Former Member]

Errors that cannot be detected statically and that occur at runtime are detected by the ABAP runtime environment. Such errors lead to exceptions. If an exception is not handled or cannot be handled, a runtime error occurs. If such a runtime error occurs, the ABAP runtime environment terminates the program, generates a

short dump

, and switches to a special screen from which you can analyze it.

Short dumps are divided into blocks describing different aspects of the error. In the overview, you can see what information is contained in the short dump, for example, the contents of data objects, active calls, control structures, and so on. The short dump overview also allows you to display the point in the program at which the termination occurred in the ABAP Debugger.

The following kinds of errors can occur:

· Internal error

The kernel encountered an error. In this case, inform SAP.

· Installation and environment or resource error

An error that occurred due to incorrect system installation or missing resources (for example, database closed).

· Error in application program

Typical causes:

Contents of a numeric field have the wrong format.

Arithmetic overflow.

External procedure does not exist.

Type conflict when passing parameters to an external procedure.

Short dumps are retained in the system for 14 days. Use Transaction ST22 to administer short dumps. If you want to retain a short dump beyond the default 14 days, use the Keep function. If you want to delete short dumps by a date criterion other than the default 14 days, choose Reorganize. If you display a short dump using

Transaction ST22

, you cannot branch to the Debugger.

If problems occur in an ABAP program that you cannot solve yourself, you can send an extract of the short dump to SAP. The contents of the short dump are essential to the SAP Hotline and Remote Consulting to enable them to solve your problem.

Have a look at below link.

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/cf/f2bbcb142c11d3b93a0000e8353423/content.htm

Best Regards,

Vibha

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[Former Member]

ST22

[Former Member]

Hi Abhay,

When we a small code Didving 2 numbers. Ok Then we have a exceptional case like Dividing a Number with "Zero". At that time the code you wrote is correct with out any errors. But when u r trying to Run the program.. It is throws you an exception. It has to be handled by you. If you are not handling it then it will throws a short dump..

With Regards,

Murthy