How to understand Runtime Errors from standard transactions

[VijayaKrishnaG]

Hi Experts, Good Day.

When the Runtime error occurred in Standard transaction or standard table, I just escalated to my senior and he resolved that. But, I would like to know the procedure or methodology to track the issue or understand the issue when Runtime Error occurred from any standard transactions or standard tables. So that I can handled those issues.

Thanks & Regards,

Vijay

[FredericGirod]

Hi,

experiences    that's all

you could also tried each time to check yourself with service.sap.com/notes with some keywords ..

Regards

Fred

[Former Member]

Hi,

- patience is required to check and analyze the errors. google and sap oss notes check

- sitting with the seniors and way of their understanding the issue

- business process knowledge

- divergent thinking on the issue

- experience

[FredericGirod]

I'm note sure sitting with senior is a good idea, because you don't do it yourself, you copy the error of the senior .. (senior is not a perfect person, its only someone who have more experience than you )

for me the master world is  CURIOSITY, and if Vijayjrushna asking for this it's the good beginning !

regards

Fred

[Former Member]

haha....agreed

[atul_mohanty]

Hi Vijay-

In ST22, try to check the section 'What happened, What can you do, Error analysis and most important the source code Source Code Extract.

Do some analysis on these by yourself, then probably you will able to understand the issue and resolve by your own.

It does not mean that by doing the above steps you will to understand all the run time errors, but by doing this probably you will resolve some issues by your own.

Also as suggested by Fred,  service.sap.com/notes.

Regards,

Atul Mohanty

[nabheetscn]

My two cents will be first

• What does dump says in detail read each sentence carefully
• SM21 if need be.
• Then my most favorite is SCN BABA search it search it..
• service.sap.com
• If nothing prevails then post a discussion to get all experts views and ask senior people

Nabheet

[Former Member]

classic

[Former Member]

Half of the stuff written in dump log is hexadecimal. A person would have to be Neo to decipher that Matrix.

[FredericGirod]

You think also SAP is THE Matrix ?! 

Fred

[nabheetscn]

You are right.. but still i feel it sometimes give clues to the nerd herd like us. I once thought to write a utility to covnert any dump into readable format but that thought still remains

Nabheet

[Former Member]

Time to promote my content.

Raw spool data also has similar hex data. I wrote program to convert it to regular text.

You can refer it for hex to text conversion part.

[Former Member]

In a way, yes.

We stay hooked to it, and argue over things like points, 'great blog' comments...

I am sure many wake up midnight just to see how much attention a particular content has grabbed.

The virtual liking and rating is connected to real emotions.

[raymond_giuseppi]

Did you find blogs like Analyzing Problems Using ABAP Short Dumps: Part I and Analyzing Problems Using ABAP Short Dumps: Part II during your search at SCN ?

Regards,

Raymond

[Former Member]

Agent Brown: Perhaps we are asking the wrong questions

Shouldn't we ask whether search tool was used?

[former_member223537]

Hi Vijay,

For ECC EHP7, SAP has provided a tool to identify relevant SAP OSS Notes. You just need to run the steps by which you get the error/dump for the std. tcode & if any relevant SAP Note is available for your support pack, it would be displayed immediately :-

http://scn.sap.com/community/erp/sd/billing/blog/2013/12/06/the-power-of-tools--how-anst-can-help-yo...

Thanks,

Best regards,

Prashant