matthew.billingham has written a helpful blog about ABAP dumps.
From my point of view a lot of helpful information is already contained in the short dump texts.
You might be interested to see these texts without having to raise the exception.
The following - quick and dirty - program can be used as a starting point.
Simply enter the dump id, e.g. COMPUTE_INT_ZERODIVIDE or TIME_OUT, in the selection screen and see the short dump text.
Kind of poor man's ST22.
No guarantee that it works in all cases. I tested some. Feel free to report errors or to improve that little hack.
REPORT ...
PARAMETERS errid TYPE snapt-errid.
CLASS write_dump DEFINITION.
PUBLIC SECTION.
CLASS-METHODS main.
PRIVATE SECTION.
CLASS-METHODS write_section
IMPORTING VALUE(errid) LIKE errid
section TYPE snapt-ttype.
ENDCLASS.
CLASS write_dump IMPLEMENTATION.
METHOD main.
WRITE / errid COLOR COL_HEADING.
SKIP.
WRITE / 'What happened?' COLOR COL_HEADING.
write_section( errid = errid
section = 'W' ).
SKIP.
WRITE / 'What can I do?' COLOR COL_HEADING.
write_section( errid = errid
section = 'T' ).
SKIP.
WRITE / 'Error analysis' COLOR COL_HEADING.
write_section( errid = errid
section = 'U' ).
SKIP.
WRITE / 'Hints for Error handling' COLOR COL_HEADING.
write_section( errid = errid
section = 'H' ).
SKIP.
WRITE / 'Internal notes' COLOR COL_HEADING.
write_section( errid = errid
section = 'I' ).
SKIP.
ENDMETHOD.
METHOD write_section.
DATA tline TYPE snapt-tline.
DATA sect TYPE snapt-ttype.
SELECT tline ttype
FROM snapt INTO (tline,sect)
WHERE langu = sy-langu AND
errid = errid AND
ttype = section
ORDER BY seqno.
IF strlen( tline ) >= 8 AND
tline(8) = '&INCLUDE'.
REPLACE '&INCLUDE' IN tline WITH ``.
CONDENSE tline.
errid = tline.
write_section( errid = errid
section = sect ).
ELSE.
WRITE / tline.
ENDIF.
ENDSELECT.
ENDMETHOD.
ENDCLASS.
START-OF-SELECTION.
write_dump=>main( ).
